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June at the Fine Arts: An agenda full of free activities

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The National Museum of Fine Arts will offer a varied agenda of free activities during the month of June, designed for all types of audiences and without the need for prior registration.

This program includes guided tours of the masterpieces in the permanent collection, drawing workshops, participatory tours for families, accessible proposals and new functions of Fine Arts Cinema.

Among the temporary exhibits, The exhibition “Gerstein” stands out. Heras Velasco. Simon. Metal craftsmen, which will be available until 23 June on the first floor of the museum. This exhibition brings together three large sculptures created by renowned Argentine artists Noemí Gerstein, Alicia Heras Velasco and Alicia Penalba Simon. For those who wish to know more about these works, guided tours offered on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays at 18.

Another important exhibition is the complete series of cyanotypes by photographer Facundo de Zuviría, exhibited in the rooms on the second floor to the 16 of June. This collection accompanies the artist's recent publication, "The books", that collects images of significant texts in your life.

The museum also offers various guided tours of its permanent collection.. Every Tuesday at 13, The “Emergence and affirmation of Impressionism” tour invites visitors to get closer to the paintings of Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Berthe Morisot, Alfred Sisley, Edgar Degas and Paul Cézanne, in commemoration of the 150 years of the first exhibition of this group of French artists.

The “Outstanding Works” cycle, on Tuesdays at 18, will focus on analyzing the symbols behind female nudes painted by William Bouguereau, Édouard Manet and Paul Gauguin, among others. further, on Wednesdays at 18 The most relevant watercolors by the Argentine artist Xul Solar belonging to the museum's collection will be reviewed.

Other guided tours include “Behind the Surface: Stories of exposed women” (Wednesday at 13), which highlights the works of artists such as Juana Romani, Berthe Morisot, Noemí Gerstein and Raquel Forner; and “Unmissable, incredible and unforgettable” (Tuesday at 16), focused on the museum's masterpieces. as a novelty, This month “Precursors and pioneers” is presented (Wednesday at 16), a guided tour of the works of 19th century Argentine artists who were involved in the beginnings and developments of painting and sculpture in the country. Meanwhile, “Challenges of the 20th century” (Fridays and Sundays at 16) offers a review of the different artistic avant-gardes of this period.

In the “Collectible” cycle, Saturdays at 16, There will be guided tours of the room that houses the legacy of River Plate art donated to the museum by the Argentine filmmaker and collector María Luisa Bemberg.

The museum also promotes accessibility with special activities. “Rodin in your hands” is designed for people who are blind or have low vision., and will take place on Thursday 13 to 17 And the saturday 15 to 14. further, there will be tours in Argentine Sign Language (LSA) for the exhibition “Gerstein. Heras Velasco. Simon. Artificers of metal” aimed at the deaf community, scheduled for Wednesday 5 Y 19 to 18 and the Sundays 2 Y 16 to 19.

For families, on Saturdays and Sundays at 17 activities will be developed for children such as “Where do stories live?”?”, which includes storytelling based on works from the collection; “An adventure in color: extreme reds”, a participatory tour through different rooms; and “The mystery of the geometric room”, focused on Argentine art of the 20th century.

The Auditorium of Friends of Fine Arts (Of. Pte. Figueroa Alcorta 2270) will continue to offer free screenings of Fine Arts Cinema, with the cycles “To Cinema!”, in collaboration with the Italian Institute of Culture of Buenos Aires, and “DEFA, “a retrospective”, with the support of the Goethe-Institut of Argentina, featuring six films from the German Democratic Republic.

All complete programming, with day-by-day details, It is available on the museum's website: www.bellasartes.gob.ar/agenda/. Admission to all activities is free. The meeting point for events is the central hall of the museum.

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