Manuel Espinosa

Manuel Espinosa
Born	1912 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died	2006 (aged 94)
Education	Escuela Nacional de Artes, Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes
Known for	Painting, drawing, sculpture
Notable work	Coleccion Privada
Movement	Arte Concreto-Invención

For the Cuban exile and pastor, see Manuel Espinosa (Cuban exile).

Manuel Espinosa (Buenos Aires, 1912 - Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2006) was an Argentine painter.

Biography

Espinosa graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Artes and finished his studies in the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes. He is one of the leaders of the geometric art in Argentina. He was a founding member of the asociación de Arte Concreto-Invención which was established in Buenos Aires in 1943.

Averaging the 2nd World War, the group proposed a rupture as an alternative. Said rupture was related to the search for a new visual language corresponding to the exigencies of a new technological, industrial society. The group sustained common goals: the art should be non-figurative art, the painting flat, and the illusions and appearances banished, moving away from traditional painting. They looked for the worth of the painting itself. In 1951 he traveled to Europe and met Vantongerloo in Paris and Vordemberge-Gildewarth in Amsterdam, who guided him in his pursuit.

Upon the dissolution of the group, Espinosa left the common goals but remained faithful to the spirit of non-figuration and produced a painting constructed from geometric elements, characterized by a rigorous system of order and by the perfection of their registers. Clarity, moderation, are attributes of his painting, which with minimal elements arranged serially produce subtle effects of color and space and a dynamic tension that creates an impression of depth. It employs transparencies, juxtapositions superpositions that generate an optical effect of unquestionable interest. He is one of the painters who most enjoys the game aroused by reason and sensitivity, a consequence of his special relationship with music and literature.

Exhibitions

He is a founding member of the group Arte Concreto-Invención. Since 1939 he carried out many individual and collective exhibits, among them:

Awards

• Air France Award – First Saloon Air France of Painting, 1966.
• First Prize – D Category and Special Mention - A & B categories – First Saloon Hisisa of Art Applied to the Textile Industry, 1967.
• Acquisition Award – Saloon of Art Mar del Plata, 1967.
• Mention Award Painting Section– LVI National Saloon of Plastic Arts, 1967
• Medal –Automóvil Club Argentino Award, 1969.
• Rotary Club Award, XVIII National Saloon of Córdoba, 1970.
• Great Acquisition Award –Municipal Saloon of Plastic Arts "Manuel Belgrano", 1971.
• Third Prize – LX National Saloon of Plastic Arts, 1971
• Merit Diploma, Konex Award of Visual Arts – 1982.
• Artistic Career – National Fund of Arts, 1993
• Stamps of Artist – Stamps of Andreani Foundation y ArteBA Foundation, 2001.
• Castagnino Award – Municipal Museum of Fine Arts Juan B. Castagnino, Rosario, 2001.

Bibliography

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• Geometrías - Abstracción geométrica latinoamericana en la Colección Cisneros, Bs. As. MALBA Colección Constantini. 2003.
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• Panorama de la pintura de la argentina contemporánea, Bs. As. Ed. Paidós. 1967.
• Perazzo, N.; Ribera, A.; Wihtelow, G. (1978). 100 años de pintura y escultura en la Argentina, 1878–1978, BS. AS. Banco de la Ciudad de Bs. As.
• Perazzo, Nelly (1983). El arte concreto en la Argentina, Bs. As. Ediciones de Arte Gaglianone.
• Pérez Barreiro, G (1994). "La negación de toda melancolía. Arte Concreto-Invención Arte Madi". Elliot, D (ed.) Art from Argentina 1920/1994. Oxford, Museum of Modern Art, 1994.
• Siracusano, G. (1999). "Las artes plásticas en las décadas del ´40 y ´50", en Nueva Historia Argentina. Tomo II: Arte, Sociedad y Política. Editorial Sudamericana, Bs. As.
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External links

• "artist/655921/manuel-espinosa". artnet.com. Retrieved 2015-12-22.

• https://www.coleccionespinosa.com/