On the one year anniversary of the loss of the great cartoonist Guillermo Mordillo, the Roberto Fontanarrosa Cultural Center (CCRF) de Rosario opened a virtual exhibition with works from the collection of the Museum of Graphic Illustration (ME).

Users will be able to enjoy original temperas, recorded to 16 paints, posters, photos of their international ads, animations, toys, phrases relating to the life and profession of the prominent artist, under the curatorship of Gonzalo Cárdenas and Hugo Maradei.

Of the sample in addition, participa Ana Carella, Mordillo's niece, who highlights the career of his uncle. To enjoy the exhibition, it can just be done Click here!

As highlighted by Maradei and Cárdenas, those people who dealt with Mordillo “repeatedly heard several of the phrases exposed in this sample, that represented his particular way of looking at life ".

In that context, "Many of these thoughts were poured into the catalog of the anthological exhibition held in the year 2009 At mallorca, a place beloved by Guillermo as much as Buenos Aires and where vacationing, like all years, found its end a year ago ”.

On the other hand and in addition to the deserved tribute, “When this exhibition was exhibited in Buenos Aires, it served as the initial kick to launch a space that was longed for by him and all his colleagues and friends., space where the entire rich graphic history of the country is represented, and that of its illustrators from different sides: graphic humour, cartoon, illustration and animation; without ignoring the new generations that will undoubtedly give it continuity ”.

As a result, the Tres Pinos Foundation “has decided to create the Museum of Graphic Illustration (ME), institution that, will work in the future, in the stately building located on Avenida Almirante Brown y Pinzón in the historic La Boca neighborhood. ”

"Due to the circumstances the world is going through, it is temporarily impossible to physically display the sample, as planned, “When this exhibition was exhibited in Buenos Aires, it served as the initial kick to launch a space that was longed for by him and all his colleagues and friends.. “When this exhibition was exhibited in Buenos Aires, it served as the initial kick to launch a space that was longed for by him and all his colleagues and friends., that leads to the final objective of setting up a MIG headquarters in the city of Rosario ”, ended.