A sample recorded, personal objects and paintings of Austrian Mariette Lydis (Vienna, 1887-Buenos Aires, 1970), CULTURAL an eclectic and transgressive art and whose works are characterized by the presence of a thin, light and theatrical display at the Sivori Museum of the City of Buenos Aires.

display “Mariette Lydis. Transitioning surreal” brings together more than 200 pieces, among which there 40 Sivori Collection paintings donated by the artist a year before his death in Buenos Aires and a timeline with footage Family Collector Jorge Correa and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes.

Cartoonist, tape recorder, lithographer and painter self, the passionate interest in humanity told the artist and was the basis of his work, why in his works they appear wars, hunger and madness, among other major issues.

“Lydis is a great an artist from the collection of Sivori whose work had so far limited visibility: Only his portraits are known, but has an incredible graphic art and engravings dating from the years 30 and 40”, said Teresa Riccardi, curator of the exhibition and director of the museum.

“Born in Belle Epoque, It was ahead of its time, He had hectic lives, evident in his etchings and drawings of erotic art expressing sexual freedom with which he lived and reflected in three broken marriages and amorous ties with women”, He recalled Riccardi.

The exhibition sees also made illustrations for various books and “love letters intimate record, directed for example Erica Marx, niece of Karl Marx, where complex relationships are revealed, sometimes mediated by a broken communication of the interwar period, who they were forced into exile, first to England and then to Argentina, in 1940, where he lived for 30 years”, precise.

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