Next Saturday at 6.30 PM, young art critic Claudio Iglesias will hold a conversation at the Auditorium with Alejandro Puente, an artist with a notable presence at Proa’s Imán: Nueva York exhitibition.

Continuing with the series of weekly meetings with the artists at the Auditorium, each Saturday they analyze their vast artistic career with the audience. In this opportunity, Alejandro Puente will have a conversation with Claudio Iglesias in order to study in depth his presence and work in New York City during the 60s from a contemporary perspective.

Information: auditorio@proa.org

Program
5 PM Artists + Critics: Guided visit with Alejandro Puente and María Teresa (more information>>)
6.30 PM Auditorium: Conversation with Alejandro Puente and Claudio Iglesias

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Alejandro Puente
Born in La Plata in 1933, where he studied with Héctor Cartier at the Fine Arts School. He joined the Grupo Sí, whose first expositions took place in 1961 in the Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes de La Plata and later in the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires. During the sixties, he had solo exhibitions in various galleries in Buenos Aires, including Bonino, Ruth Benzacar and Lirolay, where he presented together with César Paternosto Nueva geometría in 1964. He participated in the first Premio Braque (1963), the Premio Ver y Estimar (1964), the Premio Nacional of the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella (1966) and the multitude show Homenaje al Viet-nam de los artistas plásticos, organized by León Ferrari and Carlos Gorriarena in the Van Riel Gallery (1966). In 1967 he received a Guggenheim fellowship, with which he traveled to New York, where he resided for four years. Before he left, he was part of the exposition Más allá de la geometría at the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella and in its North American version, Beyond Geometry, at the Center for Inter-American Relations in New York (1968), and he was also included in Latin American Artists at the Delaware Art Center (1968). In 1970 he was invited to participate in “Information”at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. From there, he went on to exhibit in Switzerland, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Mexico, Cuba, Japan, and China. In 1985 he was chosen to represent Argentina in the São Paulo Biennial. The Fundación Konex honored him in 1992 and 2004. He is a member of the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes.

Claudio Iglesias
Born in Buenos Aires in 1982. He writes about contemporary art for specialized art magazines and newspapers. Co-editor for PLANTA online magazine (http://plantarevista.com.ar), a platform for art critic projects. He wrote texts for diverse exhibition catalogues and worked as curator for the shows: Vínculos y retazos de magia (Links and pieces of magic) at Galería Alberto Sendrós/ arteBA, Buenos Aires, 2010; Investigación / Infraestructura (Research / Infrastructure) at Centro Cultural de España en Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, 2009; and Emiliano López. Proyecciones habitables (Emiliano López. Livable projections) at the Esteban Lisa Foundation, Buenos Aires, 2008.