As part of the celebration of the 90 years of the Provincial Museum of Fine Arts Dr. Pedro E. Martínez, this Friday 19 August will take forward the launch of Art, Platense design and counterculture artist Ricardo Cohen, better known as Rocambole.

Presentation is from 19 hours in the auditorium of the museum and will be carried out freely and free, with income in order of arrival to the building located on Buenos Aires 355, in the city of Parana.

Few artists have achieved national recognition among audiences as diverse as Rocambole. His indelible imprint on the rock culture Argentina, performance as a teacher and director of visual arts schools and their permanent effect on the stage of popular culture has made their work can be seen in the most diverse spaces, from emblematic prints on T-shirts for fans of Patricio Rey and Ricotta Redonditos up on the walls of the Museum of Fine Arts entrerriano, as it was during May 2014.

According Rocambole "always existed a distinction between bourgeois culture and high culture, and popular culture and mass ". Cohen transiting those waters, where you can glimpse what he calls "counterculture", that which seeks to challenge the provisions from a new ethical and aesthetic paradigm. If the cover art discography and staging of Patricio Rey and Ricotta Redonditos have become an icon of popular culture in the country, the creation of the legendary Brotherhood of the Solar Flower in the 60s (who she starred with several artists from different disciplines) They made him an essential reference for alternativity, self-management and new languages ​​in art that even today continues to cultivate.

The book "Art, Design and Counterculture "is a wonderful publication that reviews its long history of more than four decades in various artistic disciplines, the teaching field and the field of rock culture Argentina, through images and texts that shape their aesthetic and thematic universe.

In an edition 200 pages, plastic work, the art ricotero, The Brotherhood and teaching experience, They are deployed through own texts, Illustrations, paintings, airbrush, sketches, drawings, graph, photographs and previously unreleased material.

They participated in the edition of the book, special guests who contributed their texts. Skay, Poli, Miguel Grinberg, REP, Miguel Cantilo, Horacio Fiebelkorn, Diego Boris, Natalia Famucchi, Carlos Mammini and Oscar Jalil.

On the other hand, the encounter with Rocambole under the 90 years of the Provincial Museum of Fine Arts, It is a new opportunity to strengthen the idea of ​​building bridges between art and folk artists and the community through the public spaces of culture that belong to us all.