As part of the celebration for the 17 anniversary of the Museum of Contemporary Latin American Art (MACLA), this Friday 23 September will begin the exhibition Presencia, where César López Osornio will be honored, founder of the cultural headquarters located in the street 50 between 6 Y 7 La Plata.

This exhibition will serve to appreciate the works of outstanding artist throughout his entire career that also included our country, Venezuela, Japan and Spain.

For the General Director of MACLA, Mercedes Reitano, "In the anniversary month of its creation, ago 17 years the museum team together with the friends association felt that the best way to celebrate another year was to remember its creation with the work of its director and mentor ".

Osornio (1930-2015) was Senior Professor of Mosaic, graduated from the current Faculty of Fine Arts of the National University of La Plata, artist and cultural manager.

In 1960 He traveled to Japan on a scholarship from the National University of La Plata and the Scientific Research Commission of the Province of Buenos Aires, where he resided for three years. There he studied Oriental Art at the Department of Art at Osaka University of Technology and Landscape Architecture at Kyodai University in Kyoto.. In both, also, he taught, within the area of ​​Visual Perception and Mural.

Back in the country, became a senior lecturer in vision, in the chair of Héctor Cartier, at the UNLP and in turn teaches the subject at the Faculty of Architecture of the Catholic University of La Plata, before his exile in Venezuela, prior to the military coup.

From 1980 lived in Barcelona, where your paintings, made of acrylic with variations of shades and chromatic values, tend to be more subtle achieving perfection in geometric abstraction. It is there where it organizes, in 1992, the First Sample of Latin American Artists residing in Europe, called Confluences, germ of the future MACLA.

With his return to Argentina in 1999 founds the MACLA Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Latinoamericano de La Plata with a heritage made up of works by numerous artists who agree to donate their work. It should be noted that he always continued his artistic career.

His individual and group exhibitions took place in La Plata, Tandil, Junín, Pinamar and CABA where his paintings are exhibited in the Eduardo Sívori museums, Cornelio Saavedra, in addition to the Borges Cultural Center, Recoleta Cultural Center, Ice Palace, Coppa Oliver Gallery, Today in Art, Arroyo, Loreto Arenas, Palatina, Blue Room of the National Congress, Swiss embassy, Biennial of Geometric Art of La Boca, FOA house, Expotrastiendas y Arte BA.

His works are in public collections in the country and abroad, among which the Embassy of Argentina in Madrid stands out, Spain; Kobe Art Museum, Japan; Lincoln Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires province; Pringles Plastic Arts Museum, Buenos Aires province; Civic Museum of Contemporary Art, Padua, Italy; Concepción del Uruguay Museum, Entre Ríos province; Museo Gallery Varna, Bulgaria; Municipal Museum of La Plata, Buenos Aires province; Museum of La Boca, CABA; Provincial Museum of Fine Arts, La Plata, Pinacoteca of the University of Zaragoza, Spain.