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Sail Men: Masters and Disciples
Born near a river where the conqueror wanted to view a sea, Buenos Aires had from the moment of its Baptism a variety of names and last names of harbour. Founded as a fluvial port of entrance of men and ideas, port of exit of fruits from an abundant, rich and fertile country, Buenos Aires is not a city of men who stay looking at the sea.
In the search of horizons, the porteños have a tendency to go to the western side, to the humid Pampa plains.
To the main characters of the sailing deed, since the historical epic of the tough battles and the fishing day-to-day routine, are found further south; where the Atlantic imposes its natural braveness, where the waves break the horizontal sight seeing.
The first painters arrived in ships, and their first views of the city where recorded from the decks. Traveller artists, who landed here, and after reflecting landscapes, characters, and local customs, passed their profession and converted in today value pioneers of the Argentinean Art.
The national painters wanted to look at the sea, but their view stopped and focused on the river and the harbour. Including the ones who received the testimony of the Napolitano sail man Edoardo de Martino (1842-1912), who at the time of arriving aboard the frigate ???Ercole??? of landfall to the Río de la Plata, he disembarked to paint with the Uruguayan Blanes. Alternating his stays between both coasts of the estuary, de Martino gained experience and obtained success.
Manuel Larravide (1871-1910) in Montevideo, and Justo Lynch (1879-1953) in
Buenos Aires embody the best representation of the teachings of the Italian sail man.
The exhibition offers today by Estudio Garrido Abogados with the paints of its Paideia Collection is composed with paints of the master and his disciples of this bank of the Plata. The foundational work that Martino achieved is shown in the paints of Justo Lynch, born ???maybe no coincidentally- in Martínez, near to the river.
Co-founder of the Nexus group, Lynch had as student of his workshop to Oscar Vaz (1909-1987). The gallego Manuel Vidal Barros (1907-1976) who arrived to the country in 1910 from its homeland Bayona, followed his master Vaz in the same theme of the ships, the ports and the men.
The four artists represented in the Gallery Night were born, in times and different geographies, next to the water. And commencing to the Mediterráneo, the Atlantic, and the Río de la Plata, they built their own song, where ships and boats, veils and mast sailings, decks and bilges, sailing men and dockers, waves and moorings, are giving the different notes, the basses and the trebles of the plastic composition that we display for you today.
In the search of horizons, the porteños have a tendency to go to the western side, to the humid Pampa plains.
To the main characters of the sailing deed, since the historical epic of the tough battles and the fishing day-to-day routine, are found further south; where the Atlantic imposes its natural braveness, where the waves break the horizontal sight seeing.
The first painters arrived in ships, and their first views of the city where recorded from the decks. Traveller artists, who landed here, and after reflecting landscapes, characters, and local customs, passed their profession and converted in today value pioneers of the Argentinean Art.
The national painters wanted to look at the sea, but their view stopped and focused on the river and the harbour. Including the ones who received the testimony of the Napolitano sail man Edoardo de Martino (1842-1912), who at the time of arriving aboard the frigate ???Ercole??? of landfall to the Río de la Plata, he disembarked to paint with the Uruguayan Blanes. Alternating his stays between both coasts of the estuary, de Martino gained experience and obtained success.
Manuel Larravide (1871-1910) in Montevideo, and Justo Lynch (1879-1953) in
Buenos Aires embody the best representation of the teachings of the Italian sail man.
The exhibition offers today by Estudio Garrido Abogados with the paints of its Paideia Collection is composed with paints of the master and his disciples of this bank of the Plata. The foundational work that Martino achieved is shown in the paints of Justo Lynch, born ???maybe no coincidentally- in Martínez, near to the river.
Co-founder of the Nexus group, Lynch had as student of his workshop to Oscar Vaz (1909-1987). The gallego Manuel Vidal Barros (1907-1976) who arrived to the country in 1910 from its homeland Bayona, followed his master Vaz in the same theme of the ships, the ports and the men.
The four artists represented in the Gallery Night were born, in times and different geographies, next to the water. And commencing to the Mediterráneo, the Atlantic, and the Río de la Plata, they built their own song, where ships and boats, veils and mast sailings, decks and bilges, sailing men and dockers, waves and moorings, are giving the different notes, the basses and the trebles of the plastic composition that we display for you today.
Adrián Gualdoni Basualdo
August 2011
