Legislators from Buenos Aires recently presented a project with which they intend to declare the famous plastic artist Marta Minujín an Illustrious Citizen of the City of Buenos Aires.

This proposal was presented by legislators from Vamos Juntos (VJ) and the Socialist Party (PS), and does a brief review of his career. It should be remembered that Minujín was born and trained in the City.

The Buenos Aires Legislature, every year, can declare a maximum of ten people as illustrious citizens, and these bills are usually approved in the last sessions of the legislative period.

This year, besides Marta Minujín, initiatives were presented to grant that recognition to the director of SAME, Alberto Crescenti, and the former soccer player and technical director world champion of the Argentine National Team, Carlos Bilardo, among other personalities.

Since adolescent, the artist had her first solo exhibition, While studying at the Prilidiano Pueyrredón National School of Fine Arts and at the Ernesto de la Cárcova School of Fine Arts.

Minujín also exhibited during his residence in France, in 1963, and then he stood out again on the return to our country, when he won the Di Tella award with the play “Roll Up and Live!” Y, with the artist Rubén Santantonin, makes “La Menesunda”.

At the end of the decade of 1960 experimented with the “media art” and created works like “Minuphone” (1967) Y “Minucode” (1968).

During the seventies he worked both in New York and in Buenos Aires and, among other projects, he dedicated himself to works such as “The Obelisk of sweet bread” (1979) Y “Carlos Gardel of fire” (1981).

With the return of democracy to Argentina, he presented on Avenida 9 of July “The Parthenon of Books” (1983), made with books prohibited during the military dictatorship.

In the eighties he designed works inspired by classical Greek sculptures, As the “Hellenic young man fragmenting” (1982) Y “Venus de Milo falling” (1986).

In 1985, Minujín produced with Andy Warhol a work of action art, where he paid the Argentine foreign debt to the American artist with corn, the “latin american gold”.

In 1996 exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, with the work “Resolving the international conflict with corn and art”.

In 2008 He conducted “Operation perfume” in the streets of Buenos Aires, where the artist and eight young people dressed in white rompers sprayed those present with the fragrance Diesel Fuel For Life, they carried in spray packs.

In 2010 presented “Hopscotch”, a tribute to Julio Cortázar, play in which the audience played simultaneously in 120 giant hopscotch, located on the avenue 9 of July.

This year, the artist could be declared an Illustrious Citizen of Buenos Aires, city ​​that was and is the setting for many of his works.