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Before learning to read and write, Carlos Alonso (b. 1929, Tunuyán, Argentina) illustrated stories. He claims that his artistic vocation was self-evident: "In the school entrance hall there was an exhibition of my notebooks. The history notebooks with drawings, the mathematics notebooks with drawings... as a way of embarrassing me, I suppose, but they achieved the opposite effect. After two or three months, I left school and went to the School of Fine Arts." From then on, his career as a painter, draftsman and engraver only moved forward. His work includes the illustrations of Don Quixote and the Divine Comedy, the central panels of the dome of the San Martín Theater in Córdoba, Argentina, more than 200 solo and group exhibitions, and numerous awards for his work.
"Divanvaca" used meat as a metaphor for the body-commodity, the agrarian economy that enables the abuses of the Argentine oligarchy against the working class, the tearing of the flesh, the bloodbath of the military dictatorship and the disappearance of his daughter Paloma. "Divanvaca" is a criticism of the powerful, of the meat industry businessmen—symbol of the national economy—and their disengagement with the social problems of the country.

Details

  • Title: Divanvaca
  • Creator: Carlos Alonso
  • Date Created: 1983
  • Location: Argentina
  • Physical Dimensions: 15 3/4 x 20 7/8 in.
  • Class: Bi-dimensional
  • Rights: All Rights Reserved
  • Medium: Screenprint on BFK Rives paper

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