SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK
Diálogos Con Esteban Lisa:
Colección Jorge Virgili
by Jorge Virgili
Published by Fundación Antonio Pérez / Diputación De Cuenca, 2008. First Edition. SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK, with introduction in English & Spanish. Gift inscribed and signed by author and collector Jorge Virgili on the flyleaf. Very good trade paperback. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text. Illustrated. 146 pages. Lavishly illustrated book of the impressive abstract modern art collection of the author, mostly featuring works by Esteban Lisa but also including works by noted artists including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Jose Gurvich, Alexander Calder, Jorge Oteiza, Paul Klee, Vassili Kandinsky, Isaac Zylberberg,
Esteban Lisa’s (1895-1983) works are now internationally known, but during his lifetime the painter chose to keep his oeuvre out of the limelight; thus his works often do not figure in studies of the history of abstraction in which they played a part. In recent years, numerous exhibitions have allowed specialists, museum professionals, and collectors to become acquainted with this artist, who began to paint in the early 1930s. The 1999 Lisa retrospective, which was organized by the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires two years after the initial efforts by Nelly Perazzo and Mario H. Gradowczyk, signaled a turning point in the recognition now accorded this Argentine painter with Spanish roots.
The geometric approach that characterizes the painter’s initial abstract works from the mid-1930s clearly arises from an encounter with the urban landscape. Lisa’s constructivism is therefore not a response to Cubism. This fact separates him from the majority of other pioneers of early abstraction. Lisa’s road to abstraction during this period was not due to an overlay of the cubist analytical approach to landscape—as was the case, for example, with Mondrian, one of whose works appears in the 1956 essay. Lisa’s abstraction stems from a paring down of the landscape. Reduced to a few essential lines, nature is transformed into a mosaic of evenly-colored planes. Beginning with these first works, Lisa can be considered one of the pioneers of what is called, for lack of a better term, Latin American Constructivism.
Loc: GL1-4
SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK
Diálogos Con Esteban Lisa:
Colección Jorge Virgili
by Jorge Virgili
Published by Fundación Antonio Pérez / Diputación De Cuenca, 2008. First Edition. SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK, with introduction in English & Spanish. Gift inscribed and signed by author and collector Jorge Virgili on the flyleaf. Very good trade paperback. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text. Illustrated. 146 pages. Lavishly illustrated book of the impressive abstract modern art collection of the author, mostly featuring works by Esteban Lisa but also including works by noted artists including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Jose Gurvich, Alexander Calder, Jorge Oteiza, Paul Klee, Vassili Kandinsky, Isaac Zylberberg,
Esteban Lisa’s (1895-1983) works are now internationally known, but during his lifetime the painter chose to keep his oeuvre out of the limelight; thus his works often do not figure in studies of the history of abstraction in which they played a part. In recent years, numerous exhibitions have allowed specialists, museum professionals, and collectors to become acquainted with this artist, who began to paint in the early 1930s. The 1999 Lisa retrospective, which was organized by the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires two years after the initial efforts by Nelly Perazzo and Mario H. Gradowczyk, signaled a turning point in the recognition now accorded this Argentine painter with Spanish roots.
The geometric approach that characterizes the painter’s initial abstract works from the mid-1930s clearly arises from an encounter with the urban landscape. Lisa’s constructivism is therefore not a response to Cubism. This fact separates him from the majority of other pioneers of early abstraction. Lisa’s road to abstraction during this period was not due to an overlay of the cubist analytical approach to landscape—as was the case, for example, with Mondrian, one of whose works appears in the 1956 essay. Lisa’s abstraction stems from a paring down of the landscape. Reduced to a few essential lines, nature is transformed into a mosaic of evenly-colored planes. Beginning with these first works, Lisa can be considered one of the pioneers of what is called, for lack of a better term, Latin American Constructivism.
Loc: GL1-4
