An exhibition of the avant-garde painter and poet Uruguayan Ernesto Cristiani

Tuesday, September 29, 02:57 PM Montevideo, 29 sep (EFE) .- A sample pictorial anthology of avant-garde poet and artist Uruguayan Ernesto Cristiani (1928-1989) presents today at the Cultural Center of Spain ( CCE) in Montevideo. The exhibition, open until Nov. 21, offers a tour of the plastic path Cristiani from 1963 until his death in 1989, and part of a generation of artists "little studied by researchers "Efe said the curator of the exhibition, the Uruguayan critic Manuel Neves. Jorge Paez Vilaro, Ruisdael Suarez, Agustin Alaman, Nelson Ramos, Cristiani himself are the main names of that generation of local artists that were collected in 1965 in the exhibition "Five avant-garde painters, but that evolved after" differently ", says Neves. The exhibition consists of nearly twenty works, reflects the bonds of Montevideo with the artistic movement Cristiani New Figuration in the first half of the sixties and its subsequent evolution towards forms of Pop Art, these parts as "Figures" in 1969. "He used the vehicular forms of Pop for other messages, such as alienation of human beings or the image of women" said the commissioner. It Cristiani production as a cartoonist, closely related to his literary work and his paintings of a more political, that came out since the mid-eighties, at the end of the Uruguayan dictatorship (1973-1985), are included in the exhibition. An exhibition of photographs documenting further the life and artistic career of the Uruguayan, who worked for years as a grade school teacher and principal. "I always tried to relate their concerns, their interest in poetry and visual arts, with his teaching job, "said Neves, who warned that, beyond the distinction of periods or styles, Cristiani concern" for human beings and society "through all his work. Average (Not Rated )