Under the 25 anniversary of the Borges Cultural Center, a series of exhibitions will be held that can be enjoyed in virtual format.

The exhibits in question are a retrospective of Boris Lurie - the artist who survived the Holocaust and founded the NO movement.! Art-, and the exhibition of the French Ramuntcho Matta, recognized for his multidisciplinary work in contemporary art.

It should be noted that for the moment, both exhibitions will be held online and are part of the celebrations for the 25th anniversary of the entity created a 18 October 1995.

"Memory" is the name of the show by Lurie, the largest retrospective of the artist in Latin America. In total there will be 200 the works in the Borges and in the Jewish Museum of Buenos Aires to reflect the universe of the artist born in Russia in 1924, raised in Latvia and with a very difficult life because his 16 years he was taken prisoner of the Nazis, he lived in different concentration camps and his mother, his sister, his grandmother and his first love were killed in what is known as the Rumbula massacre.

Once released, Lurie settled in New York and began to develop her artistic career, marked by an imprint of social and political denunciation against oblivion, The discrimination, capitalism and consumerism. He founded the avant-garde movement NO! Art in which artists like Yayoi Kusama participated, Rocco Armento, Suzanne Long, Michael Stuart, Aldo Tambellini and Wolf Vostell.

Meanwhile, the exhibition of the French artist Ramuntcho Matta -music, poet, sound designer and draftsman born in Paris in 1960-, invites reflection on the pandemic, uncertainty and transformations.

Is about “Inner window”, an exhibition that brings together a series of colorful comic-style drawings, as well as collages made on newspaper clippings with current news. The sample, also, will put the dialogue the work of the French with that of important Argentine artists, as advanced from the institution.

Matta's series has Q-arantino as its main character, “a kind of philosopher of life, maybe an alter ego of the artist himself, is in quarantine. Q-arantino, whose name comes from a simple pun between Quarentine (quarantine in english) and the name of the admired filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, reflect through the images on a hot topic that concerns us all: the pandemic that plagues the world, transforming the lives of countries and personal”, count from Borges.

Both samples were conceived within the framework of the anniversary of the cultural space located in the Galerías Pacífico building, with entry through Viamonte 525, which opened its doors in 1995 also with two exhibitions: “Art From Argentina”, from the Oxford Museum of Modern Art and Jorge de la Vega's "Fantastic Zoologies".

Along its history, the Borges exhibited work by international artists such as Tina Modotti, Andy Warhol and Antoni Tapies and brought together prominent national artists such as Antonio Berni, Rómulo Maccio, Antonio Seguí, Louis Philippe “Yuyo” Noah, Eduardo Stupía, Julio Le Parc. And since its inauguration it has hosted contemporary art programs, such as the Kuitka Grant directed by the artist Guillermo Kuitka or the project “Ojo al País” created by Luis Felipe Noé, which sought to reflect the artistic work of artists from all provinces of the country.