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Lidy Prati was one of the first Argentinian abstract artists. Her only artistic education was the classes she took in 1942 with Tomás Maldonado, whom she later married. That same year she presented her first exhibition at Salón Peuser. In 1944, she collaborated in the first and only number of Arturo, an art magazine specialized in Latin American abstraction, with a series of vignettes of clear non-figurative influence. She became an active member of Asociación Arte Concreto-Invención (AACI), the first programmatic avant-garde movement in Argentina, rejecting the idea that art could be the representation of a reality outside the artwork. In her painting, Prati explored the relations between the elements of visual arts language—plane, color, and shape. Inspired by theories of color and perception, in works like Composición serial she sought to cause tensions within the plane through alterations in color and figures. In the nineteen-fifties she took part in the group Artistas Modernos de la Argentina, organized by art critic Aldo Pellegrini, which gathered abstract artists of different tendencies. The undisputable importance of Prati’s pioneering work in geometric art has only been recognized in recent years.

Details

  • Title: Serial Composition
  • Creator: Lidy Prati
  • Date Created: 1948
  • Physical Dimensions: 29.7 x 22 in
  • Provenance: Malba Collection
  • Medium: Oil on hardboard

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