Of the 29 June to 15 of September, They may be seen in the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes over 30 Uruguayan master works, some of them emblematic and others never exhibited in Argentina.

The exhibition will be officially opened from 13, featuring more than 30 oils, watercolors and drawings by the great Uruguayan artist Pedro Figari (1861-1938), from public collections of the National Museum of Visual Arts and the Museum Figari, both of Uruguay.

Curated by the Museum director Figari, Pablo Thiago Rocca, The exhibition is organized by the Fine Arts together with the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Argentina, Ministries of Education and Culture, and Foreign Affairs of Uruguay, and the Embassy of Uruguay in Argentina, and it is carried out in line with the market Creative Industries Argentinas (MICA) 2019 -Encuentro in which Uruguay will be the guest country of honor and Cultural Summit of the Americas in Buenos Aires.

“Figari: creation myth” through all facets of the Uruguayan master, even its formative stages, to reveal a unique artist, creator of a mitografía Rio de la Plata. Sample dialogue with the pictorial traditions of the region and suggests a link between plastic rioplatenses schools: Uruguayan, Brazil and Argentina. The selection of works, It is ranging from an early watercolor done in 1890 to the drawings for the last published novel Figari 1930, It is divided into eight thematic clusters: “The legend rioplatina”, “Nocturnes and twilights”, “Bullfights and games”, “primary life (Troglodytes series)”, “The other world”, “The underworld”, “crimes” e “Historia Kiria”.

With the support of the Association of Friends of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, The exhibition will be on the campus of Avenida del Libertador 1473 until the 15 September in the halls 32 Y 33 the first floor of the Museum, Tuesday through Friday 11 a 20 and on Saturdays and Sundays, of 10 a 20.