Curated by Florencia Galesio and within the framework of the 105 anniversary of his birth, the National Museum of Fine Arts will inaugurate an exhibition dedicated to the artist Ides Kihlen.

The exhibition will be officially inaugurated on Tuesday 5 July from the 19, where the public will be able to appreciate an important journey through the five decades of the distinguished Argentine artist.

In total there will be 28 the pieces on display, from the automatic creations that constantly cross his inquiries about painting and music, to the most recent works of the “Pandemic” series, in which black and white predominate.

According to the director of the traditional Buenos Aires venue, Andrés Duprat, “owner of a career as long as it is secret, for eight decades Kihlen worked in his workshop, indifferent to fashion, to the movements and, especially, to the art system.

Duprat added that “his interest was centered on creation itself, without worrying about complying with the mandates and strategies involved in building an artistic career”.

Born in Santa Fe on 10 July 1917, Kihlen began his training at 14 years at the School of Decorative Arts in Buenos Aires, directed at that time by Pío Collivadino. She was also a student of Vicente Puig, and frequented the workshops of Emilio Pettoruti and Juan Batlle Planas. In Paris, trained with André Lhote. From 1961, studied at the Ernesto de la Cárcova Higher School of Fine Arts, where he had Kenneth Kemble as a teacher, one of the artists of the informalist group. In the years 80, continued his workshop practices with Adolfo Nigro.

But nevertheless, until recently, his work was one of the best kept secrets in the visual arts scene in Argentina. It was only at the beginning of the 21st century that his paintings left his workshop and came to public light.. In 2002, the National Museum of Decorative Art organized a major retrospective that, at once, It was his first solo show. ideas had 85 years.

Since then, his production began to circulate and arouse great interest, which led her to exhibit in galleries and national and foreign art fairs. Quickly, public institutions echoed their work, and was invited to participate in individual and group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Latin American Art in La Plata. (MACLA), the Caraffa Museum in Córdoba and the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires.

This tribute can be visited until 7 August in the room 42 from the second floor, with free entry, free and from Tuesday to Friday (of 11 a 20); Saturdays and Sundays (of 10 a 20 hours).