Javiel Raúl Cabrera : entre el olvido y la leyenda / investigación y textos, Pablo Thiago Rocca ; textos preliminares : Enrique Aguerre, Oscar Prato ; fotografía : Pablo Bielli ; traducción Verónica Jijón ; Javiel Raúl Cabrera : between oblivion and legend.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cabrera, Raúl Javiel, 1919-1992, artist.

Contributor:

Bielli, Pablo, photographer.

Prato, Oscar, writer of supplementary textual content.

Aguerre, Enrique, writer of supplementary textual content.

Rocca, Thiago, 1965- writer of supplementary textual content.

Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, issuing body, host institution.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Standardized Title:

Paintings. Selections.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Cabrera, Raúl Javiel, 1919-1992--Exhibitions.

Cabrera, Raúl Javiel.

Cabrera, Raúl Javiel, 1919-1992--Criticism and interpretation.

Portrait painting--Uruguay--20th century--Exhibitions.

Portrait painting.

Watercolor painting--Uruguay--20th century--Exhibitions.

Watercolor painting.

Physical Description:

253 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Edition:

Primera edición.

Other Title:

Javiel Raúl Cabrera : between oblivion and legend

Place of Publication:

Montevideo, Uruguay : Galería Oscar Prato : Ministro de Educación y Cultura, Dirección Nacional de Cutura : MNAV, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, 2021.

Language Note:

Text in Spanish and English.

Summary:

The most complete exhibition of Cabrera's work at the MNAV, held 28 November, 2019 and 9 February, 2020. Together with the publication of this book, both events are a tribute in recognition of the artist on the centenary of his birth. Better known for the anecdotes that adorn a life of bohemia and seclusion than for the virtues of an exceptional pictorial work, the figure of Javiel Raúl Cabrera (Montevideo, 1919 - Santa Lucía, 1992) oscillates between the extremes of oblivion and legend. One hundred years after his birth, a rereading of his work and a settling of accounts with his legacy -which exceeds the merely pictorial- are imposed, to give him definitive entrance, and through the front door, to the main art gallery from the country. The emergence of the young artist within the so-called generation of 45', his first Montevideo exhibitions, the friendship with the poet José Parrilla, the links with the Torres García Workshop, the prolonged psychiatric hospitalization and his subsequent discharge with a trip to Europe included , as well as the last years of peaceful existence in Santa Lucía, are some of the paths that will be reflected in a pictorial production that also knows extremes, with bright and dark, coarse and subtle stages. The exhibition presents testimonies and unpublished documentation, writings and personal objects to clarify some of the historical circumstances that gave rise to the "Cabrerita" legend. But, in particular, he seeks to recover his enormous plastic significance, the symbolic load of his characters, his musicality and his high poetic flight.

Contents:

Desde el coleccionismo / Oscar Prato

Javiel Raúl Cabrera o el río de tres orillas / Pablo Thiago Rocca

Catálogo de obra Javiel Raúl Cabrera

Javiel por Javiel

Javierl por trece

Javiel por los críticos

Cronología anotada: Javiel Raúl Cabrera 1919-1992

English version.

Notes:

Chronology: pages 158-185.

Catalog of an exhibition held at Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay from 28 November, 2019 to 9 February, 2020.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9974775663

9789974775664

OCLC:

1291620276