Under the curatorship of Marcelo Pacheco, The National Museum of Fine Arts will inaugurate on Tuesday 29 November the cycle of spatial works belonging to the great Argentine artist Raquel Forner.

This series, which will be officially inaugurated from 19, gather paintings, drawings and engravings that the Argentine artist dedicated to the theme of the conquest of the cosmos.

"Raquel Forner. space revelations. 1957-1987” is the name of the exhibition that the traditional Buenos Aires venue will carry out together with the Forner-Bigatti Foundation and that includes a total of 70 works corresponding to the “spatial cycle” of the artist, exhibited for the first time in its entirety.

These works were created in the last decades of Forner, who died in 1988, and they reflect the curiosity that the artist had for the conquest of space and that followed the so-called “terrestrial cycle”., where he referred to the dramas of the war.

Andrés Duprat, Museum director pointed out that at the time the artist "embarked on this second and long stage in her production, He was already an established figure on the Argentine scene, one of the main artists of modernity and a woman who had overcome the many pitfalls of developing a career in a patriarchal environment”.

Likewise, Durprat explained that Forner felt "shocked by the exploration of the cosmos", for which "he appealed in these works to the languages ​​inherited from his passage through the surrealist experience as part of the Paris Group, that put into dialogue with the postulates of expressionism and fauvism and, even, with contemporary experiences such as Informalism and Neofiguration”.

The works that make up the sample come from, mostly, of the Forner-Bigatti Foundation, as well as the collection of the Museum and private collections. on display, there will be paintings from the series "Las Lunas", "Those Who Saw the Moon", "The astronauts", "The labyrinths", "The apocalypse", "Fish", "The Terrans", "Space Mutations", "From space", "The mutants" and "Encounter with astrosers in Ischigualasto", initiated by Forner after a trip to Valle de la Luna in the province of San Juan, the last series he would work on until his death.

This exhibition can be visited until 26 February in the Temporary Exhibition Pavilion of the Museum, from Tuesday to Friday, of 11 a 20 hours, and on Saturdays and Sundays, of 10 a 20, With free entry.