IN MEMORIAM

In November 2011, the artist presented a solo show in this gallery.

Manuel Álvarez, a leading exponent of Argentine geometric art has passed away
He studied with Petorutti in París; he exhibited at the Di Tella, the National Museum of Fine Arts, the Recoleta Cultural Center, and he participated in the 1956 Venice Biennale. He was 90 years old.

Manuel Álvarez

He was 90 years old and had a long artistic trajectory: painter Manuel Álvarez, whose work inquired especially into geometry died yesterday. His many years in the art world allowed him to meet numerous colleagues, many of them referents of different movements which developed in Argentina.
It was during the 1950s that Álvarez produced a large part of his oeuvre: before that he had had his training under the great Emilio Petorutti in Paris, and through geometric art he became a member of the Asociación Arte Nuevo (New Art Association), together with artists Luis Tomasello, Gregorio Vardánega and Ana Sacerdote.
In 1959, he incorporated the vibration of color in his work, in advance of Optical Art. He exhibited at the Di Tella Institute, the NMFA, the Recoleta Cultural Center, in galleries and salons. He participated in the Venice Biennale (1956).
It was precisely on the basis of geometric abstraction that he created in the 1960s his series of the Cities. During the following decade, he devoted himself to his series on Time, in which asymmetry prevails. In later years he would work with an increasingly sober color palette.
His work may currently be viewed in a group show held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Buenos Aires (MACBA).

"The wisdom of order", Ñ magazine interview with Manuel Álvarez on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition at the Sívori Museum.
http://www.revistaenie.clarin.com/arte/Murio-Manuel-Alvarez-arte-geometrico-argentino_0_932907299.html