Research Catalog

Title

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.

Author

Cabrera, Raúl Javiel, 1919-1992

Publication

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

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Additional Authors

• Rocca, Thiago, 1965-
• Aguerre, Enrique
• Prato, Oscar
• Bielli, Pablo
• Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, issuing body, host institution.

Description

253 pages : illustrations, portraits; 28 cm

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 The exhibition presents testimonies and unpublished documentation, writings and personal objects to clarify some of the historical circumstances that gave rise to the "Cabrerita" legend.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

Uniform Title

Paintings. Selections.

Alternative Title

• Paintings.
• Javiel Raúl Cabrera : between oblivion and legend

Subject

• Cabrera, Raúl Javiel, 1919-1992 > Criticism and interpretation
• Cabrera, Raúl Javiel, 1919-1992 > Exhibitions
• Watercolor painting > Uruguay > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Portrait painting > Uruguay > 20th century > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Art exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs
• Museum exhibition catalogs

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay from 28 November, 2019 to 9 February, 2020.
• Chronology: pages 158-185.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Text in Spanish and English.

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.

ISBN

• 9789974775664
• 9974775663

LCCN

2021331272

OCLC

1291620276

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries