Pérez Esquivel himself says about the exhibition: “I want to tell the story of Latin America. First I am an artist, then a militant. The two things merge, all my art has to do with life, with what I do and I think that that is important”.
curated by Laura Casanovasthe exhibition exhibits “scenes that glimpse identities and cultures, urban life, social struggles, the religious faith of the homeless, war, the limit at times too fragile between life and death, dictatorships and disappearances, the artistic manifestations of peoples, women and family affections”, advances the person in charge of the curatorship.
“There was never a split, in his case, between art and struggle. The drawings in ink and graphite, the woodcuts, the acrylic paintings and the sculptures in bronze, wood, marble and cement discover different stylistic stages with plastic proposals close both to realism like the avant-garde, especially with Latin American roots, but with their own formal solutions”, describes Casanovas.
Pérez Esquivel was born in Buenos Aires on November 26, 1931, he learned to carve wood at the Spanish Board of Schoolchildren where he was a pupil. His grandmother, Eugenia, who speaks Guarani, passed on the history and tradition of the original peoples. He studied at the Manuel Belgrano National School of Fine Arts and simultaneously his social concerns awoke. His intense artistic activity focused on painting, murals and monuments, among which the “Latin American Way of the Cross” and “Lent Cloth” stand out, made in 1992 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the conquest of America.
As a militant, he suffered arrests and torture and was dismissed from his teaching positions by the last civil-military dictatorship after August 1977. In 1980 he received the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of the fight for human rights in a context of violence and dictatorships in Latin America.
He was president of the Honorary Council of the Service for Peace and Justice in Latin America and is a member of the Permanent Court of Peoples, of the Honorary Committee of the international coordination for the decade of non-violence and peace.
The exhibition opens on Saturday, July 2 at 1:00 p.m. at the Lucy Mattos Museum, located at Avenida Del Libertador 17426Beccar- Partido de San Isidro, province of Buenos Aires, and can be visited from Wednesday to Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Source: Ambito
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