Newly way, the exhibition produced by the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes concluded its realization at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Unquillo (MACU Foundation), where he also finished his tour of different provinces.

After being exhibited at the National Museum of Fine Arts, where they visited her more than 45.000 people, and then in four provinces of the country, the exhibition "Dante x Alonso" closed its federal itinerary at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Unquillo (MACU Foundation), Córdoba, where it could be seen with free admission.

The exhibition, organized in Córdoba by the Fine Arts and the Italian Institute of Culture of that province, presents 45 works on paper by the Argentine master Carlos Alonso (Mendoza, 1929), inspired by the life of the great Florentine poet and his greatest work, the “Divine Comedy”. It's all about drawings, collages, engravings, watercolors and inks that the artist dedicated to Dante in two distant periods of his career: a set of portraits of the years 60 -many of them, created in italy, in 1968– and another group of more recent works, closed between 2000 Y 2009. To that is added, also, a set of works chosen by the master himself to exhibit at the Cordoba institution.

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The first stop in the country of "Dante x Alonso" was 2 museums, from Bahia Blanca, where it was exhibited 22 March to the 8 May at its headquarters in Sarmiento 450. The 15 of May, landed at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Neuquén, space in which it could be seen until the 24 of July, while of the 5 from August to 18 of September, was presented at the Museum of Patagonia, from Bariloche, located in the Civic Center, that depends on National Parks. From the 8 October to 27 of November, was exhibited at the Carlos Alonso-Stoppel Mansion Museum, Mendoza, to then end his itinerary at the Unquillo Museum of Contemporary Art (MACU Foundation), destinations where the exhibition is organized together with the Italian Institute of Culture of Córdoba.

The exhibition, originally exhibited at the National Museum of Fine Arts curated by its director, Andrés Duprat, was organized together with the Italian Institute of Culture of Buenos Aires to commemorate the 700 years of the death of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321).