Luis Felipe “Yuyo” Noah died at 91, a reference for contemporary Argentine painting

The plastic artist Luis Felipe “Yuyo” Noah He died Wednesday at 91. It was a reference of the Contemporary Argentine painting recognized worldwide.

The painter suffered a stroke last week and died surrounded by his family, who traveled from France in recent days to accompany him.

The news of his death was confirmed by its foundation, where they expressed: “With deep regret, from the Luis Felipe Noé Foundation we reported the Death of Luis Felipe Noéfundamental artist whose work and thought They deeply transformed Argentine and Latin American art”

In the same text, they reviewed that he created its foundation in 2019 “with the purpose of preserve and project your legacy“.” We celebrate his life, his inexhaustible creative impulse and his sharp look as a way of understanding the world. His legacy lasts in each work, in each word, in each gesture that invited to think and create”, They added from the artistic space.

Finally, they thanked “their teachings and the possibility of open this shared path“. In addition, they reaffirmed the commitment to continue” honoring their memory in each action of our existence, because in the Doing is lived and in doing it grows. ”

They said that during the day they will inform the place, day and schedule of their wake.

In his latest statements, “Yuyo” spoke of today and launched: “I must confess that is not my sympathy. To simplify, Javier Milei seems to me a real disaster”, He lashed out about government management in an interview that granted a profile in 2024.

The trajectory of Luis Felipe “Yuyo” Noah, a reference of Argentine art

Noah was a fundamental plastic artist for the creation of a movement that revolutionized Argentine painting. From the sixties he questioned traditional painting and proposed to give rise to some of his colleagues such as Romulo Macció, Jorge de la Vega and Ernesto Deira. At that time, he sought to explore a form that overcome the division between abstract and figurative painting. This formed a transcendent movement called new figuration.

The artist had clear his idea of ​​rupture. In a time as different as the current one was necessary to do the opposite: He worked on the idea of ​​a broken vision, of divided picture, finally chaos.

In addition, he founded with his colleagues a bar that made history: the barbarian, where artists and intellectuals met, especially on Saturdays at noon, after touring galleries. One of the windows was painted by De la Vega and is still preserved.

During the years in which he left the painting Noah dedicated himself to teaching, he wrote books and essays, he was curator and eventually returned to the samples, like the one he did in the National Museum of Fine Arts in 2017.

Throughout his extensive career, he received the National Di Tella Award (1963), the Grand Prix of Honor of the National Fund of the Arts (1997) and the brilliant Konex to the visual arts (2002). In 2006, the Legislature of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires declared him an illustrious citizen.