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Pop-Art Argentina (2012) is a series of portraits of key figures in the history of Argentina, seen through the artist\u2019s eyes: Borges, Fangio, Quino, Tita Merello, Susana Gim\u00e9nez, Charly Garc\u00eda, Piazzolla, Evita, Gardel, Julio Bocca, Che Guevara, Cort\u00e1zar and Maradona. Through commissions it later grew to include international figures such as Audrey Hepburn, Jim Morrison, Marilyn Monroe and Salvador Dal\u00ed.<\/p>\n\n\n

Each portrait began with in-depth research into its subject, from the person\u2019s own work to biographies and analyses, films and news. Each one, in its own size, is composed of elements of great significance in that person\u2019s life, and is made on canvas with mixed techniques between the graphic arts and painting, which allows serial works with variations in colour and finish, numbered and signed.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cPop-Art Argentina (2012)\u201d es una serie de retratos de los personajes fundamentales en la historia de Argentina vistos a trav\u00e9s de los ojos de la artista. La colecci\u00f3n se compone hasta ahora de 11 obras: Borges, Fangio, Quino, Tita Merello, Susana Gim\u00e9nez, Charly Garc\u00eda, Piazolla, Evita, Gardel, Julio Bocca, el Che, Cort\u00e1zar y Maradona, a continuaci\u00f3n bajo encargos se ampli\u00f3 con personajes extranjeros tales como Audrey Hepburn, Jim Morrison, Marylin Monroe and Salvador Dali. Para la realizaci\u00f3n de los retratos ha llevado a cabo una profunda labor de documentaci\u00f3n de cada personaje que va desde el estudio de la propia obra de cada uno de ellos hasta la lectura de biograf\u00edas y an\u00e1lisis pasando por el visionado de pel\u00edculas y noticias. Cada retrato, de diferentes medidas, est\u00e1 compuesto por elementos de gran significado en la vida del personaje y ha sido realizado sobre tela con t\u00e9cnicas mixtas entre las artes gr\u00e1ficas y la pintura lo que posibilita la obra seriada con variaciones de color y acabado, numerada y firmada.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n

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\"Borges\"<\/figure>\n\n\n

Borges<\/h3>\n\n\n

2012. Mixed media on canvas, 90 \u00d7 113 cm.<\/p>\n\n\n

Jorge Luis Borges was born on 24 August 1899 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and died on 14 June 1986 in Geneva, Switzerland. He was one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. His work includes short stories, essays and poems, and reaches far beyond the merely literary. A controversial figure, his political views stood in the way of his receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature.<\/p>\n\n\n

Throughout my life I have met countless fervent readers of Borges who expected me, as an Argentine, to be an expert on his work. Borges\u2019s writing always sparks conversation and connection among his admirers, an exchange of feelings, a spiritual bond between people of different cultures, races and languages. Perhaps that is why, for the background of his portrait, I used an illustration titled “The Library of Babel”, which appears in one of his stories, together with one of his phrases that has moved me most: “We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting forms, that pile of broken mirrors.”<\/p>\n\n\n

For the figure I recreated the image of Borges in his mature years, with his lost gaze, the mark of a man who went blind at 55 but who, unable to look, knew how to see beyond the real and the concrete and gave his work its very personal touch of the unreal.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Borges by FSMB from Pop-Art Argentina Collection Acrylic Mixed Media on Canvas. 113 x 90. Jorge Luis Borges naci\u00f3 el 24 de agosto de 1899 en Buenos Aires, Argentina, y muri\u00f3 el 14 de junio de 1986 en Ginebra, Suiza. Ha sido uno de los escritores m\u00e1s importantes del siglo XX. Su obra incluye cuentos, ensayos y poemas y trasciende m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de lo meramente literario. Personaje pol\u00e9mico, sus ideas pol\u00edticas fueron un obst\u00e1culo para que consiguiera el Nobel de Literatura. A lo largo de mi vida me he encontrado con infinidad de fervientes lectores borgianos que pretend\u00edan encontrar en m\u00ed, como argentina, una experta en su obra. Y es que la obra de Borges siempre provoca, entre sus admiradores, conversaci\u00f3n y conexi\u00f3n, intercambio de sensaciones, uni\u00f3n espiritual entre personas de distintas culturas, razas y lenguas. Quiz\u00e1s por eso para la creaci\u00f3n de su retrato he utilizado, para el fondo, una ilustraci\u00f3n titulada \u201cLa biblioteca de Babel\u201d que aparece en uno de sus cuentos y una de sus frases que m\u00e1s me han emocionado: \u201cSomos nuestra memoria, somos ese quim\u00e9rico museo de formas inconstantes, ese mont\u00f3n de espejos rotos\u201d. Para su figura he recreado la imagen de un Borges de edad madura, con su mirada perdida, la caracter\u00edstica de un hombre que se qued\u00f3 ciego a la edad de 55 a\u00f1os, pero que, sin poder mirar, supo ver m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de lo real y concreto para imprimir a su obra ese personal\u00edsimo toque irreal. “Somos nuestra memoria, somos ese quim\u00e9rico museo de formas inconstantes, ese mont\u00f3n de espejos rotos.” (quim\u00e9rico: adj. Que es ilusorio, imaginado, sin fundamento: ese plan es quim\u00e9rico, imposible de llevar a la pr\u00e1ctica.)<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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\"Fangio\"<\/figure>\n\n\n

Fangio<\/h3>\n\n\n

2012. Mixed media on canvas, 70 \u00d7 140 cm.<\/p>\n\n\n

Juan Manuel Fangio was born on 24 June 1911 in Balcarce, Argentina, and died on 17 July 1995 in Buenos Aires. Also known as El Chueco and El Maestro, he was a racing driver who dominated the first decade of Formula 1, becoming world champion five times with four different teams: Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Maserati. Fangio\u2019s name is legendary in motor racing. He has the best average of any Formula 1 driver in history, winning 24 of the 59 races he entered and reaching the podium in 35 of them; he is also the only driver to have won Formula 1 championships with four different teams, and the oldest winner in history, at 46 years and 41 days.<\/p>\n\n\n

For Fangio\u2019s portrait I drew on a painting made by Alberto Ascari in 1951; a photograph of the race he drove at Reims in 1954 with the number 18; the logos of the four teams he belonged to (Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Maserati); his nickname El Chueco, by which he was known internationally; the name of his hometown, Balcarce; and an image of his face in his characteristic racing helmet. All of it over the traditional chequered starting flag. It could not have been otherwise: strong colour built on reds (the colour of his car), and the black and white of the photographs to convey a past era full of vigour, speed, risk, danger and success. For me, Fangio is still the best driver in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n

Original text (Spanish)<\/summary>\n

Fangio by FSMB from Pop-Art Argentina Collection Acrylic Mixed Media on Canvas. 140 x 70. Juan Manuel Fangio naci\u00f3 el 24 de junio de 1911 en Balcarce, Argentina, y muri\u00f3 el 17 de julio de 1995 en Buenos Aires. Conocido tambi\u00e9n como El Chueco y El Maestro fue un piloto automovil\u00edstico que ejerci\u00f3 el dominio absoluto durante la primera d\u00e9cada de la F\u00f3rmula 1, llegando a ser 5 veces campe\u00f3n, con cuatro equipos distintos: Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz y Maserati. El nombre de Fangio es m\u00edtico en el mundo del automovilismo. Ha sido el piloto de F\u00f3rmula 1 de mejor promedio de la historia, ganando 24 de las 59 carreras que disput\u00f3, alcanzando en 35 de ellas el podio, adem\u00e1s de ser el \u00fanico piloto que gan\u00f3 campeonatos de F\u00f3rmula 1 con 4 escuder\u00edas distintas y el piloto ganador m\u00e1s viejo de la historia, con 46 a\u00f1os y 41 d\u00edas. Para el retrato de Fangio he tenido en cuenta una pintura hecha por Alberto Ascari en 1951; tambi\u00e9n una foto donde corri\u00f3 el piloto en Reims en 1954 con el numero 18, as\u00ed como los logos de los cuatro equipos a los que perteneci\u00f3 (Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz y Maserati); su apodo El Chueco, con el que era internacionalmente conocido; el nombre de su ciudad natal, Balcarce; y una imagen de su cara con su caracter\u00edstico casco de carrera. Y todo sobre la tradicional bandera a cuadros de salida. No pod\u00eda ser de otra manera, el colorido fuerte a base de rojos (su color de auto), y el blanco y negro de las fotograf\u00edas para transmitir una \u00e9poca pasada llena de vigor, velocidad, riesgo, peligros y \u00e9xitos. Para mi, Fangio sigue siendo el mejor piloto del mundo.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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\"Quino\"<\/figure>\n\n\n

Quino<\/h3>\n\n\n

2012. Mixed media on canvas, 115 \u00d7 97 cm.<\/p>\n\n\n

Joaqu\u00edn Salvador Lavado Tej\u00f3n, better known as Quino, was born on 17 July 1932 in Guaymall\u00e9n, in the province of Mendoza, Argentina. He is a cartoonist and comic-strip creator of great international importance. His most famous creation is the strip Mafalda (published between 1964 and 1973), collected in 13 books published around the world and translated into more than 30 languages. Although Quino had been drawing cartoons since 1954, his strip Mafalda and its heroine, a little girl who asks humanity\u2019s great questions from a child\u2019s point of view, sharp and acid, has travelled the world and remains current although he created it many years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n

I always loved this character and read the collections my parents had bought over the years. I kept them like a treasure. Wherever I have travelled people have asked me about her, and like any Argentine I consider her almost part of my family. That is why, to portray her creator, I used a couple of drawings in which he shows himself, and a photograph of Quino taken on the day the statue of Mafalda was installed in San Telmo, in which he stands beside the daughter of his imagination. And of course her inseparable gang: the endearing Felipe, Manolito, Susanita, Miguelito and Libertad, and her little brother Guille. It was also necessary to include two lines from his strips that I have always especially liked: “I have decided to face reality, so as soon as it gets nice, let me know” (from Mafalda), and “Don\u2019t take offence, Elcira, but\u2026 were we friends, relatives, husband and wife, or what?” (from S\u00ed, cari\u00f1o, 1987).<\/p>\n\n\n

Life should be the other way round\u2026 You should start by dying, and get that trauma out of the way. Then you wake up in an old people\u2019s home, getting better every day. Then you are thrown out of the home because you are well, and the first thing you do is collect your pension. Then, on your first day at work, they give you a gold watch. You work for forty years until you are young enough to enjoy retiring from working life. Then you go from party to party, drink, have sex and get ready to start studying. Then you start school, playing with your friends without any obligations, until you are a baby. And you spend the last nine months floating peacefully, with central heating, room service, etc\u2026 And in the end you leave this world in an orgasm. (Quino)<\/p>\n\n\n

Original text (Spanish)<\/summary>\n

Quino by FSMB from Pop-Art Argentina Collection Acrylic Mixed Media on Canvas. 97 x 115. Joaqu\u00edn Salvador Lavado Tej\u00f3n, m\u00e1s conocido como Quino, naci\u00f3 el 17 de julio de 1932 en Guaymall\u00e9n, provincia de Mendoza,Argentina. Es un humorista gr\u00e1fico y creador de historietas de gran trascendencia internacional. Su creaci\u00f3n m\u00e1s famosa es la tira c\u00f3mica Mafalda (publicada entre 1964 y 1973), de la que se han recopilado hasta 13 libros editados en todo el mundo traducidos a m\u00e1s de 30 lenguas. Aunque Quino dibuja vi\u00f1etas c\u00f3micas desde 1954 su tira c\u00f3mica Mafalda y el personaje protagonista, una ni\u00f1a que se plantea cuestiones trascendentales de la humanidad desde un punto de vista infantil pero \u00e1cido, ha dado la vuelta al mundo y permanece vigente aunque ya hace a\u00f1os que la cre\u00f3. Siempre me encant\u00f3 este personaje y le\u00eda los recopilatorios que hab\u00edan ido comprando mis padres. Los guardaba como un tesoro. All\u00e1 donde he viajado me han preguntado por ella y como cualquier argentino la considero casi de mi familia. Por eso, para retratar a su creador he utilizado un par de dibujos en los que se muestra a s\u00ed mismo y una fotograf\u00eda de Quino del d\u00eda de la instalaci\u00f3n de la figura de Mafalda en San Telmo en la que est\u00e1 \u00e9l junto a la hija de su imaginaci\u00f3n. Y como no, su inseparable pandilla formada por los entra\u00f1ables Felipe, Manolito, Susanita, Miguelito y Libertad, y su hermanito Guille. Tambi\u00e9n, era necesario, dos textos de sus vi\u00f1etas que siempre me gustaron especialmente. “HE DECIDIDO ENFRENTAR LA REALIDAD, ASI QUE APENAS SE PONGA LINDA ME AVISAN” (from Mafalda). “NO VAYAS A ODENDERTE ELCIRA PERO – NOSOTROS ERAMOS AMIGOS, PARIENTES, ESPOSOS O QUE? (from <\/em>Si, cari\u00f1o<\/em> 1987). LA VIDA DEBER\u00cdA SER AL REV\u00c9S….<\/strong><\/em> Se deber\u00eda empezar muriendo y as\u00ed ese trauma est\u00e1 superado.<\/em> Luego te despiertas en una residencia, mejorando d\u00eda a d\u00eda.<\/em> Despu\u00e9s te echan de la residencia porque est\u00e1s bien y lo primero que haces es cobrar tu pensi\u00f3n.<\/em> Luego en tu primer dia de trabajo, te dan un reloj de oro.<\/em> Trabajas cuarenta a\u00f1os hasta que seas lo bastante joven como para disfrutar del retiro de la vida laboral.<\/em> Entonces, vas de fiesta en fiesta, bebes, practicas sexo y te preparas para empezar a estudiar.<\/em> Luego empiezas el cole, jugando con tus amigos sin ning\u00fan tipo de obligaci\u00f3n, hasta que seas beb\u00e9.<\/em> Y los \u00faltimos nueve meses te los pasas flotando tranquilo, con calefacci\u00f3n central, room service, etc…<\/em> Y al final abandonas este mundo en un orgasmo. (QUINO)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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\"Tita<\/figure>\n\n\n

Tita Merello<\/h3>\n\n\n

2012. Mixed media on canvas, 115 \u00d7 86 cm.<\/p>\n\n\n

Tita Merello was born on 11 October 1904 in Buenos Aires, the city where she died on 24 December 2002. An actress and tango singer who started out as a vedette, she was one of the most singular personalities of Argentine show business, compared with Anna Magnani. Although she did not record much, she sang a number of songs in her films and is remembered above all for “Se dice de m\u00ed” and “La milonga y yo”.<\/p>\n\n\n

For Tita Merello\u2019s portrait I took into account details of great importance in her life, such as the Batacl\u00e1n Theatre, where she started in 1922 as a chorus girl showing off her legs, and the title of what was perhaps the most famous song of her whole career, “Se dice de m\u00ed” (1943), written by Ivo Pelay with music by Francisco Canaro. The sound of this milonga accompanied me while I made the work, into which I incorporated particular portraits of Tita: the one from a still of the film Amorina (1961), which won her the National Film Institute\u2019s award for best actress; the one on the cover of the book La calle y yo (1972), the biography that gathers her thoughts; a photograph of a suggestive Tita used for the cover of an issue of the magazine Radiolandia in 1950, taken by the photographer Annemarie Heinrich; and, also by Heinrich, what is perhaps the best-known photograph of the actress, at the age of 36.<\/p>\n\n\n

“I am a tremendous sinner, because I was a seeker of love. I didn\u2019t realise that love is not sought, it is found.”<\/p>\n\n\n

Original text (Spanish)<\/summary>\n

Tita Merello by FSMB from Pop-Art Argentina Collection Acrylic Mixed Media on Canvas. 86 x 115. Tita Merello naci\u00f3 el 11 de octubre de 1904 en Buenos Aires, ciudad donde muri\u00f3 el 24 de diciembre de 2002. Actriz y cantante de tangos que comenz\u00f3 como vedette ha sido una de las personalidades m\u00e1s singulares del espect\u00e1culo argentino comparada con Anna Magnani. Si bien no grab\u00f3 demasiado, cant\u00f3 diversas canciones en sus pel\u00edculas y es recordada principalmente por sus temas \u201cSe dice de m\u00ed\u201d y \u201cLa milonga y yo\u201d. Para realizar el retrato de Tita Merello he tenido en cuenta detalles de suma importancia en su vida como el Teatro Batacl\u00e1n, donde comenz\u00f3 en 1922 como chica de coro luciendo las piernas, as\u00ed como el t\u00edtulo de la que quiz\u00e1s haya sido la canci\u00f3n m\u00e1s famosa de toda su carrera: \u201cSe dice de m\u00ed\u201d (1943), escrita por Ivo Pelay con m\u00fasica de Francisco Canaro. El sonido de esta milonga me acompa\u00f1\u00f3 durante la creaci\u00f3n de la obra a la que incorpor\u00e9 retratos puntuales de Tita como el que aparece en un fotograma de la pel\u00edcula \u201cAmorina\u201d (1961), que le vali\u00f3 el premio a la mejor actriz del Instituto Nacional de Cinematograf\u00eda; el que figur\u00f3 en la portada del libro \u201cLa calle y yo\u201d (1972), la biograf\u00eda que recopila sus pensamientos; una fotograf\u00eda de una insinuante Tita que sirvi\u00f3 para la portada de un n\u00famero de la revista \u201cRadiolandia\u201d del a\u00f1o 1950, realizada por la fot\u00f3grafa Annemarie Heinrich; y tambi\u00e9n de \u00e9sta \u00faltima la que quiz\u00e1s sea la fotograf\u00eda m\u00e1s conocida de la actriz a la edad de 36 a\u00f1os. \u201cSoy una tremenda pecadora, porque fui una buscadora de amor. No me daba cuenta de que el amor no se busca, se encuentra<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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\"Susana<\/figure>\n\n\n

Susana Gim\u00e9nez<\/h3>\n\n\n

2012. Mixed media on canvas, 90 \u00d7 111 cm.<\/p>\n\n\n

Susana Gim\u00e9nez was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 29 January 1944. She is an actress, former model, former vedette and the most popular and successful television presenter in Argentina. She is also a businesswoman who has launched her own perfume, her own magazine, a bingo hall and a doll that outsold Barbie. Thanks to her extraordinary audience figures she made it into the Guinness Book of Records.<\/p>\n\n\n

I remember Susana\u2019s success in her first television programme, “Hola Susana”, very similar to “Hola Raffaella” by the Italian star Raffaella Carr\u00e0, and how from then on she became the undisputed television star she was, breaking every audience record. From then on her private life, her husbands, her lovers, her daughter, everything became public and part of Argentines\u2019 daily life. Her image has become an icon, not only on television but also in advertisements and in photo features published in her own magazine and in many others. That is why, for her portrait, I used a close-up in which her characteristic eyes, photographed so many times, stand out, and a playful, sensual pose overflowing with energy and passion, taken from the 2008 advertising campaign for the launch of her magazine, in which she appears kneading pasta like a typical housewife.<\/p>\n\n\n

Original text (Spanish)<\/summary>\n

Susana Gimenez by FSMB from Pop-Art Argentina Collection Acrylic Mixed Media on Canvas. 111 x 90. Susana Gim\u00e9nez naci\u00f3 en Buenos Aires, Argentina, el 29 de enero de 1944. Es una actriz, ex modelo, ex vedette y la presentadora de televisi\u00f3n m\u00e1s popular y de mayor \u00e9xito en Argentina. Es, adem\u00e1s, una empresaria que ha logrado lanzar su propio perfume, su revista, un bingo y una mu\u00f1eca que super\u00f3 en ventas a Barbie. Gracias a sus incre\u00edbles datos de audiencia ha logrado inscribirse en el libro de los Record Guiness. Recuerdo el \u00e9xito de Susana en su primer programa en televisi\u00f3n, \u201cHola Susana\u201d, muy similar a \u201cHola Raffaella\u201d de la estrella italiana Raffaella Carr\u00e1, y c\u00f3mo a partir de entonces se convirti\u00f3 en la indiscutible estrella televisiva que fue, batiendo todos los records de audiencia. Desde entonces su vida privada, sus maridos, amantes, su hija, todo se hizo p\u00fablico y todo pas\u00f3 a formar parte del d\u00eda a d\u00eda de los argentinos. Su imagen se ha convertido en un icono; no s\u00f3lo en televisi\u00f3n, tambi\u00e9n en spots publicitarios y en reportajes fotogr\u00e1ficos publicados en su propia revista y en muchas otras. Por eso para la realizaci\u00f3n de su retrato he utilizado un primer plano en el que se distinguen sus caracter\u00edsticos ojos que han sido tantas veces fotografiados, y una divertida y sensual pose, en la que rezuma energ\u00eda y pasi\u00f3n, obtenida de la campa\u00f1a publicitaria para el lanzamiento de su revista, en el a\u00f1o 2008, en la que aparece amasando pasta como una t\u00edpica ama de casa. <\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Charly Garc\u00eda<\/h3>\n\n\n

2012. Mixed media on canvas, 116 \u00d7 90 cm.<\/p>\n\n\n

Charly Garc\u00eda is a singer-songwriter, pianist and keyboardist from Argentina with a long career in rock music, forming successful groups such as Sui Generis and Ser\u00fa Gir\u00e1n, cult groups like La M\u00e1quina de Hacer P\u00e1jaros, and as a solo musician. He is widely considered by critics one of the most influential artists of Spanish-language rock. (Source: Wikipedia.)<\/p>\n\n\n

The painting of Charly Garc\u00eda is composed of three of his records: Influencia; Clics modernos, his third solo album, released in 1983 and named by the Argentine edition of Rolling Stone the second-best record in the history of Argentine rock; and the distinctive “S” of “Cerca de la revoluci\u00f3n”. The single, written and performed by Charly Garc\u00eda, is one of his best-known songs and one of the most influential in Argentine rock. It was released as track 9 of the album Piano bar, which came out in 1984 and is considered one of his greatest works; it has been called the best song in the history of Argentine rock.<\/p>\n\n\n

“For some, mediocrity is normal; madness is being able to see beyond.”<\/p>\n\n\n

Original text (Spanish)<\/summary>\n

Charly Garcia by FSMB from Pop-Art Argentina Collection Acrylic Mixed Media on Canvas. 90 x 116. Charly Garc\u00eda<\/strong> is a singer-songwriter, pianist and keyboardist from Argentina with a long career in rock music, forming successful groups such as Sui Generis and Ser\u00fa Gir\u00e1n, cult status groups like La M\u00e1quina de Hacer P\u00e1jaros, and as a solo musician. Widely considered by critics as one of the most influential rock artists in the Spanish rock scene. source: wikipedia<\/p>\n\n\n

El cuadro de Charly Garcia esta compuesto por 3 de sus discos: Influence, Clics Modernos (Clics modernos es el tercer \u00e1lbum solista, lanzado en 1983, considerado por la edici\u00f3n argentina de la revista Rolling Stone como el segundo mejor disco de la historia del rock argentino) y la distinguida “S” de “Cerca de la revoluci\u00f3n”, el single creado e interpretado por Charly Garc\u00eda es una de sus canciones m\u00e1s conocidas, y una de las m\u00e1s influyentes del rock argentino. Fue lanzada como tema N\u00ba 9 del \u00e1lbum Piano bar, que sali\u00f3 a la venta en 1984, considerado una de sus obras cumbre. Ha sido considerado el mejor tema de la historia del rock argentino. “La mediocridad para algunos es normal, la locura es poder ver mas alla.”<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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\"Piazzolla\"<\/figure>\n\n\n

Piazzolla<\/h3>\n\n\n

2012. Mixed media on canvas, 77 \u00d7 100 cm.<\/p>\n\n\n

\u00c1stor Pantale\u00f3n Piazzolla was born on 11 March 1921 in Mar del Plata, Argentina, and died on 4 July 1992 in Buenos Aires. A bandoneon player and composer, he was one of the most important tango musicians of the twentieth century. His innovations in tango, influenced by jazz and classical music during his years in New York, were heavily criticised; for many years he was dismissed by the orthodox and championed by the intellectuals. If there is one name we can identify with the bandoneon and its typical sound, it is \u00c1stor Piazzolla.<\/p>\n\n\n

Listening to Piazzolla\u2019s signature work, “Adi\u00f3s Nonino”, the tango he composed on his father\u2019s death in 1959 and which has been covered countless times, I understood why the sound of the bandoneon has always seemed sad to me. Perhaps that is why I used cold, sad colours for his portrait. But while working I listened again and again to the song that best symbolises Piazzolla\u2019s struggle with his music, the one that set his detractors against his followers when he presented it at the 1969 Buenos Aires Festival of Song and Dance: “Balada para un loco”. My parents remember that controversy and the revolution his music represented, Piazzolla\u2019s new tango, with instruments, rhythms and lyrics never heard before, with airs of other music, which he managed to take to every corner of the world, playing with the best orchestras.<\/p>\n\n\n

“My bandoneon is like holding a woman in my arms. I caress it, I strike it. The rhythmic excitement drives me to it.” (\u00c1stor Piazzolla)<\/p>\n\n\n

“Listening to \u2019Balada para un loco\u2019 while I paint his portrait\u2026” (Balada para un loco, tango, 1969, music by \u00c1stor Piazzolla, lyrics by Horacio Ferrer.)<\/p>\n\n\n

Original text (Spanish)<\/summary>\n

Piazzolla by FSMB from Pop-Art Argentina Collection Acrylic Mixed Media on Canvas. 100 x 77. \u00c1stor Pantale\u00f3n Piazzolla naci\u00f3 el 11 de marzo de 1921 en Mar de Plata, Argentina, y muri\u00f3 el 4 de julio de 1992 en Buenos Aires. Bandoneonista y compositor, ha sido uno de los m\u00fasicos de tango m\u00e1s importantes del siglo XX. Sus innovaciones en el tango, jazz\u00edsticas y cl\u00e1sicas influenciadas por su estancia en Nueva York, fueron muy criticadas y durante muchos a\u00f1os fue ninguneado por los ortodoxos y reivindicado por los intelectuales. Si hay un nombre que podamos identificar con bandone\u00f3n y su t\u00edpico sonido ese es el de \u00c1stor Piazzolla. Y he podido entender por qu\u00e9 el sonido del bandone\u00f3n siempre me ha parecido triste al escuchar la obra representativa de Piazzolla, \u201cAdios Nonino\u201d, el tango que compuso a la muerte de su padre en 1959 y que ha sido infinitas veces versionado. Quiz\u00e1 por eso para realizar su retrato utilic\u00e9 colores fr\u00edos y tristes. Pero para trabajar escuch\u00e9 una y mil veces la canci\u00f3n que mejor simboliza la lucha que vivi\u00f3 Piazzolla con su m\u00fasica, la que enfrent\u00f3 a sus detractores y sus seguidores cuando se present\u00f3 en el Festival de Buenos Aires de la canci\u00f3n y la danza de 1969, \u201cBalada para un loco\u201d. Mis padres recuerdan aquella pol\u00e9mica y la revoluci\u00f3n que supuso su m\u00fasica, el tango nuevo de Piazzolla, con instrumentos, ritmos y letras que hasta ahora no se hab\u00edan escuchado, con aires de otras m\u00fasicas, y que logr\u00f3 llevar a todos los rincones del mundo tocando con las mejores orquestas. “Mi bandone\u00f3n es como tener una mujer en los brazos. Lo acaricio, le pego. La excitaci\u00f3n r\u00edtmica me lleva a eso” \u00c1stor Piazzolla<\/em> <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

“Escuchando “Balada para un loco” mientras pinto su cuadro…”<\/em> Balada para un loco Tango 1969 M\u00fasica: Astor Piazzolla<\/a> Letra: Horacio Ferrer<\/a> Las tardecitas de Buenos Aires tienen ese qu\u00e9 s\u00e9 yo, \u00bfviste? Sal\u00eds de tu casa, por Arenales. Lo de siempre: en la calle y en vos. . . Cuando, de repente, de atr\u00e1s de un \u00e1rbol, me aparezco yo. Mezcla rara de pen\u00faltimo linyera y de primer poliz\u00f3n en el viaje a Venus: medio mel\u00f3n en la cabeza, las rayas de la camisa pintadas en la piel, dos medias suelas clavadas en los pies, y una banderita de taxi libre levantada en cada mano. \u00a1Te re\u00eds!… Pero s\u00f3lo vos me ves: porque los maniqu\u00edes me gui\u00f1an; los sem\u00e1foros me dan tres luces celestes, y las naranjas del frutero de la esquina me tiran azahares. \u00a1Ven\u00ed!, que as\u00ed, medio bailando y medio volando, me saco el mel\u00f3n para saludarte, te regalo una banderita, y te digo…(Cantado)Ya s\u00e9 que estoy piantao, piantao, piantao… No ves que va la luna rodando por Callao; que un corso de astronautas y ni\u00f1os, con un vals, me baila alrededor… \u00a1Bail\u00e1! \u00a1Ven\u00ed! \u00a1Vol\u00e1!Ya s\u00e9 que estoy piantao, piantao, piantao… Yo miro a Buenos Aires del nido de un gorri\u00f3n; y a vos te vi tan triste… \u00a1Ven\u00ed! \u00a1Vol\u00e1! \u00a1Sent\u00ed!… el loco berret\u00edn que tengo para vos:\u00a1Loco! \u00a1Loco! \u00a1Loco! Cuando anochezca en tu porte\u00f1a soledad, por la ribera de tu s\u00e1bana vendr\u00e9 con un poema y un tromb\u00f3n a desvelarte el coraz\u00f3n.\u00a1Loco! \u00a1Loco! \u00a1Loco! Como un acr\u00f3bata demente saltar\u00e9, sobre el abismo de tu escote hasta sentir que enloquec\u00ed tu coraz\u00f3n de libertad… \u00a1Ya vas a ver! (Recitado) Salgamos a volar, querida m\u00eda; subite a mi ilusi\u00f3n super-sport, y vamos a correr por las cornisas \u00a1con una golondrina en el motor! De Vieytes nos aplauden: “\u00a1Viva! \u00a1Viva!”, los locos que inventaron el Amor; y un \u00e1ngel y un soldado y una ni\u00f1a nos dan un valsecito bailador. Nos sale a saludar la gente linda… Y loco, pero tuyo, \u00a1qu\u00e9 s\u00e9 yo!: provoco campanarios con la risa, y al fin, te miro, y canto a media voz: (Cantado) Quereme as\u00ed, piantao, piantao, piantao… Trepate a esta ternura de locos que hay en m\u00ed, ponete esta peluca de alondras, \u00a1y vol\u00e1! \u00a1Vol\u00e1 conmigo ya! \u00a1Ven\u00ed, vol\u00e1, ven\u00ed! Quereme as\u00ed, piantao, piantao, piantao… Abrite los amores que vamos a intentar la m\u00e1gica locura total de revivir… \u00a1Ven\u00ed, vol\u00e1, ven\u00ed! \u00a1Trai-lai-la-larar\u00e1! (Gritado) \u00a1Viva! \u00a1Viva! \u00a1Viva! Loca ella y loco yo… \u00a1Locos! \u00a1Locos! \u00a1Locos! \u00a1Loca ella y loco yo!<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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\"Evita\"<\/figure>\n\n\n

Evita<\/h3>\n\n\n

2012. Mixed media on canvas, 81 \u00d7 130 cm.<\/p>\n\n\n

Mar\u00eda Eva Duarte de Per\u00f3n was born on 7 May 1919 in Jun\u00edn or Los Toldos, Argentina, and died on 26 July 1952 in Buenos Aires. An actress in film, theatre and radio, shortly after beginning her activity as a trade unionist she met the future president Juan Domingo Per\u00f3n, whom she married. As first lady she worked especially for the rights of workers and of women, carrying out a wide-ranging social programme. Evita is more than a political figure: she is a symbol, with people for and against her even today, so many years after her death. She began her political career in the 1946 campaign, accompanying her husband, Juan Domingo Per\u00f3n. That in itself was something new, because until then women had no political rights and hardly any public presence. Evita\u2019s stature grew until she became Spiritual Leader of the Nation, leader of the workers and a fighter for the rights of women, for whom she won the vote in the 1951 elections, a right she exercised for the first time when she was already very ill. Her death from cancer raised her to the status of a myth, and she even became a character in films and musicals.<\/p>\n\n\n

For her portrait I used two images of her from two periods, two sides of her rich personality: one as a sensual, seductive woman and actress, and the other as a politician, warrior and saint, giving a speech with her fist accompanying her words. And behind her, or beside her, always, Per\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n

“I too dressed in all the honours of glory, vanity and power. I let myself be adorned with the finest jewels on earth. Every country in the world paid me homage in one way or another. Everything that the circle of men in which I happen to live wanted to give me, as the wife of an extraordinary president, I accepted with a smile, \u2019lending my face\u2019 to protect my heart. Smiling, in the middle of the farce, I learned the truth of all its lies. I can say now how much is lied, how much is deceived and how much is feigned, because I know men in their greatness and in their misery.” (Eva Per\u00f3n)<\/p>\n\n\n

Original text (Spanish)<\/summary>\n

Evita by FSMB from Pop-Art Argentina Collection Acrylic Mixed Media on Canvas. 130 x 81. Mar\u00eda Eva Duarte de Per\u00f3n naci\u00f3 el 7 de mayo de 1919 en Jun\u00edn o Los Toldos, Argentina, y muri\u00f3 el 26 de julio de 1952 en Buenos Aires, Argentina. Actriz de cine, teatro y radio, poco despu\u00e9s de comenzar su actividad como sindicalista conoci\u00f3 al que ser\u00eda presidente Juan Domingo Per\u00f3n con quien se caso. Como primera dama trabaj\u00f3 especialmente por los derechos de los trabajadores y de la mujer realizando una amplia obra social. Evita es m\u00e1s que una figura pol\u00edtica, es un s\u00edmbolo, con gente a favor y en contra a\u00fan hoy despu\u00e9s de los a\u00f1os que han pasado desde su muerte. Comenz\u00f3 su carrera pol\u00edtica en la campa\u00f1a de 1946 acompa\u00f1ando a su marido, Juan Domingo Per\u00f3n. Esto en s\u00ed ya supuso una novedad porque hasta entonces las mujeres carec\u00edan de derechos pol\u00edticos y apenas ten\u00edan presencia p\u00fablica. La figura de Evita fue creciendo y se convirti\u00f3 en Jefa Espiritual de la Naci\u00f3n, l\u00edder de los trabajadores y luchadora por los derechos de la mujer para la que consigui\u00f3 el voto en las elecciones de 1951, derecho que ejerci\u00f3 por primera vez estando ya muy enferma. Su muerte de c\u00e1ncer elev\u00f3 su figura a mito, convirti\u00e9ndose incluso en personaje de pel\u00edculas y musicales. Para su retrato he utilizado dos im\u00e1genes suyas que corresponden a dos \u00e9pocas, dos facetas de su rica personalidad; una como mujer sensual, seductora y actriz, y otra como pol\u00edtica, guerrera y santa, en discurso con el pu\u00f1o acompa\u00f1ando sus palabras. Y tras ella o a su lado, siempre, Per\u00f3n. Yo me vest\u00ed tambi\u00e9n con todos los honores de la gloria, de la vanidad y del poder. Me dej\u00e9 engalanar con las mejores joyas de la tierra. Todos los pa\u00edses del mundo me rindieron sus homenajes, de alguna manera. Todo lo que me quiso brindar el c\u00edrculo de los hombres en que me toca vivir, como mujer de un presidente extraordinario, lo acept\u00e9 sonriendo, “prestando mi cara” para guardar mi coraz\u00f3n. Sonriendo, en medio de la farsa, conoc\u00ed la verdad de todas sus mentiras. Yo puedo decir ahora lo mucho que se miente, todo lo que se enga\u00f1a y todo lo que se finge, porque conozco a los hombres en sus grandezas y en sus miserias.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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\"Gardel\"<\/figure>\n\n\n

Gardel<\/h3>\n\n\n

2012. Mixed media on canvas, 70 \u00d7 115 cm.<\/p>\n\n\n

Carlos Gardel was a singer, composer and film actor who may have been born in France or in Uruguay, but what is certain is that he lived in Argentina from 1893 and became an Argentine citizen in 1923. He died on 24 June 1935 in an air crash in Medell\u00edn, Colombia, at the height of his fame, and became a myth. The author of legendary songs, he took tango to the farthest corners of the earth, and his voice is registered by UNESCO as part of the world\u2019s documentary heritage. If tango, the melody the whole world identifies with Argentina, has a voice, it is without doubt Carlos Gardel\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n

I have listened to his songs and watched his films, and I can say that he was the closest thing to what we know today as a Hollywood star. In the painting I wanted to reflect his overwhelming personality, his sex appeal with men and women alike, and his magnetism; perhaps that is why I used two images, one was not enough. On one side the singer, with his guitar in his hands, and on the other the film star, with his characteristic open smile and his hat tilted to one side. Of all his songs (he made 957 recordings), perhaps the most emblematic for me is “El d\u00eda que me quieras”, written expressly for the film of the same name shot in New York in 1935. The song, with lyrics by his friend Alfredo Le Pera and music by Carlos Gardel, enveloped and accompanied me while I created the painting.<\/p>\n\n\n

Original text (Spanish)<\/summary>\n

Gardel by FSMB from Pop-Art Argentina Collection Acrylic Mixed Media on Canvas. 115 x 70. Carlos Gardel fue un cantante, compositor y actor de cine que pudo nacer en Francia o en Uruguay pero lo cierto es que vivi\u00f3 en Argentina desde 1893 y se nacionaliz\u00f3 en 1923. Falleci\u00f3 el 24 de junio de 1935 en Medell\u00edn, Colombia, en accidente a\u00e9reo, en lo m\u00e1s alto de su fama convirti\u00e9ndose en un mito. Autor de m\u00edticas canciones llev\u00f3 el tango hasta el \u00faltimo rinc\u00f3n de la tierra y su voz est\u00e1 grabada por la Unesco como documento patrimonial. Si al tango, esa melod\u00eda que todo el mundo identifica con Argentina, se le pone voz esa es, indudablemente, la de Carlos Gardel. He escuchado sus canciones, he visto sus pel\u00edculas y puedo afirmar que era lo m\u00e1s parecido a lo que hoy conocemos como una star de Hollywood . En el cuadro he querido reflejar su personalidad arrolladora, su sex appeal , tanto entre hombres como entre mujeres, y su magnetismo; quiz\u00e1 por eso he utilizado dos im\u00e1genes, una no era suficiente. Por una parte el cantante, con la guitarra en las manos, y por otra la estrella de cine, con esa sonrisa abierta tan caracter\u00edstica y el sombrero ladeado. Quiz\u00e1 de entre todas sus canciones (lleg\u00f3 a realizar 957 grabaciones) para m\u00ed la m\u00e1s emblem\u00e1tica sea \u201cEl d\u00eda que me quieras\u201d, incluida y compuesta expresamente para la pel\u00edcula del mismo nombre que se film\u00f3 en Nueva York en 1935. La canci\u00f3n, cuya letra es de su amigo Alfredo Le Pera y la m\u00fasica de Carlos Gardel, me envolvi\u00f3 y acompa\u00f1\u00f3 durante la creaci\u00f3n del cuadro.<\/p>\n\n\n

El d\u00eda que me quieras<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n

<\/strong>Canci\u00f3n 1935 <\/strong>M\u00fasica: Carlos Gardel <\/strong>Letra: Alfredo Le Pera<\/strong> Acaricia mi ensue\u00f1o el suave murmullo de tu suspirar, \u00a1como r\u00ede la vida si tus ojos negros me quieren mirar! Y si es m\u00edo el amparo de tu risa leve que es como un cantar, ella aquieta mi herida, \u00a1todo, todo se olvida..!El d\u00eda que me quieras la rosas que engalana se vestir\u00e1 de fiesta con su mejor color. Al viento las campanas dir\u00e1n que ya eres m\u00eda y locas las fontanas me contar\u00e1n tu amor. La noche que me quieras desde el azul del cielo, las estrellas celosas nos mirar\u00e1n pasar y un rayo misterioso har\u00e1 nido en tu pelo, luci\u00e9rnaga curiosa que ver\u00e1…\u00a1que eres mi consuelo..!Recitado: El d\u00eda que me quieras no habr\u00e1 m\u00e1s que armon\u00edas, ser\u00e1 clara la aurora y alegre el manantial. Traer\u00e1 quieta la brisa rumor de melod\u00edas y nos dar\u00e1n las fuentes su canto de cristal. El d\u00eda que me quieras endulzar\u00e1 sus cuerdas el p\u00e1jaro cantor, florecer\u00e1 la vida, no existir\u00e1 el dolor… La noche que me quieras desde el azul del cielo, las estrellas celosas nos mirar\u00e1n pasar y un rayo misterioso har\u00e1 nido en tu pelo, luci\u00e9rnaga curiosa que ver\u00e1… \u00a1que eres mi consuelo!<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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\"Julio<\/figure>\n\n\n

Julio Bocca<\/h3>\n\n\n

2012. Mixed media on canvas, 90 \u00d7 90 cm.<\/p>\n\n\n

Julio Bocca was born in Munro, Argentina, on 6 March 1967. He is a world-renowned dancer who began dancing at only four years old. Linked to the Teatro Col\u00f3n in Buenos Aires from the age of eight, he danced there as a soloist for the first time in 1982. He founded his own company and has performed in the most important theatres in the world. After a 25-year career he said goodbye to the stage in 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n

For the composition of Julio Bocca\u2019s portrait I used different images I came across while searching for documents about his life, which affected me deeply. Over a background of the Teatro Col\u00f3n, so important in his professional career and to which he has such a strong emotional bond, I incorporated different snapshots that give an idea of his great activity and long career: from the image used on the poster for the ballet Bocca Tango, the show with which he took tango around the world, to the balcony pas de deux with Alessandra Ferri in Romeo and Juliet, by way of a recent portrait of the dancer, another of him seated with a nostalgic gaze during a break in rehearsal, and another that freezes an instant of one of his last performances before his retirement, celebrated with an open-air show with international dance figures that drew more than 300,000 people.<\/p>\n\n\n

Original text (Spanish)<\/summary>\n

Julio Bocca by FSMB from Pop-Art Argentina Collection Acrylic Mixed Media on Canvas. 90 x 90. Julio Bocca naci\u00f3 en Munro, Argentina, el 6 de marzo de 1967. Es un bailar\u00edn reconocido a nivel mundial que comenz\u00f3 a bailar con s\u00f3lo 4 a\u00f1os. Vinculado al Teatro Col\u00f3n de Buenos Aires desde los 8 a\u00f1os bail\u00f3 all\u00ed como solita por primera vez en 1982. Fund\u00f3 compa\u00f1\u00eda propia y ha actuado en los m\u00e1s importantes teatros de todo. Tras 25 a\u00f1os de carrera se despidi\u00f3 de los escenarios en el 2007. Para la composici\u00f3n del retrato de Julio Bocca he utilizado distintas im\u00e1genes que me he ido encontrando en la b\u00fasqueda de documentos sobre su vida que me han impactado de manera profunda. Sobre un fondo que es el Teatro Col\u00f3n, tan importante en su carrera profesional y con el que tiene un v\u00ednculo emocional tan importante, he incorporado distintas instant\u00e1neas que dan idea de su gran actividad y amplia trayectoria; desde la imagen que se utiliz\u00f3 en el cartel de promoci\u00f3n del ballet \u201cBocca Tango\u201d, el espect\u00e1culo con el que llev\u00f3 el tango por todo el mundo, hasta el pas de deux del balc\u00f3n con Alessandra Ferri en \u201cRomeo y Julieta\u201d pasando por un retrato actual del bailar\u00edn, otro sentado con una mirada nost\u00e1lgica en la pausa de un ensayo y otro que congela un instante de una de sus \u00faltimas actuaciones antes de su retirada, que se celebr\u00f3 con un espect\u00e1culo al aire libre acompa\u00f1ado de figuras internacionales de la danza que convoc\u00f3 a m\u00e1s de 300.000 personas.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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\"El<\/figure>\n\n\n

El Che<\/h3>\n\n\n

2012. Mixed media on canvas, 115 \u00d7 86 cm.<\/p>\n\n\n

“I would rather die standing than live on my knees.”<\/p>\n\n\n

“\u2026every day we must fight so that this love of living humanity is transformed into concrete deeds, into acts that serve as an example, as mobilisation.”<\/p>\n\n\n

“I have felt Guatemalan in Guatemala, Mexican in Mexico, Peruvian in Peru, as today I feel Cuban in Cuba, and naturally I feel Argentine here and everywhere; that is the layer of my personality, I cannot forget mate and asado\u2026”<\/p>\n\n\n

Original text (Spanish)<\/summary>\n

El Che by FSMB from Pop-Art Argentina Collection. Acrylic Mixed Media on Canvas. 86 x 115. “Prefiero morir de pie, a vivir arrodillado.” “\u2026todos los d\u00edas hay que luchar por que ese amor a la humanidad viviente se transforme en hechos concretos, en actos que sirvan de ejemplo, de movilizaci\u00f3n.” “Me he sentido guatemalteco en Guatemala, mexicano en M\u00e9xico, peruano en Per\u00fa, como me siento hoy cubano en Cuba y naturalmente como me siento argentino aqu\u00ed y en todos los lados, ese es el estrato de mi personalidad, no puedo olvidar el mate y el asado…”<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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\"Cort\u00e1zar\"<\/figure>\n\n\n

Cort\u00e1zar<\/h3>\n\n\n

2012. Mixed media on canvas.<\/p>\n\n\n

Shown at<\/h4>\n\n\n

100 a\u00f1os con Julio Cort\u00e1zar. La otra orilla, Donceles 66, Mexico City, August 2014<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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\"Maradona\"<\/figure>\n\n\n

Maradona<\/h3>\n\n\n

2012. Mixed media on canvas, 95.5 \u00d7 100 cm.<\/p>\n\n\n

Diego Armando Maradona was born in Lan\u00fas, Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 30 October 1960. A footballer until his retirement in 1997, he has since been coach of the Argentine national team and other international teams. Nicknamed “El Pelusa” and “El Diez”, because he wore that number on his shirt, he is considered one of the best players in the history of the sport.<\/p>\n\n\n

I remember the sound of the match broadcasts on radio and television, the euphoric shouts of all Argentines reacting to his plays. Maradona has been, and still is, a hero to Argentines, an icon in his rise and his fall. That is why I wanted the work to reflect a moment of ecstasy, the victory over England at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, perhaps the most celebrated match of his career, celebrated with thousands of white papers in every corner of Buenos Aires; and on the other side the vision of an older Maradona, a family man, with the detail of the tattoos of his daughters\u2019 names. The colours I used could not have been any others: the yellows and blues of Boca Juniors, and hidden somewhere you can see the famous “hand of God”, as he himself called it.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Maradona by FSMB from Pop-Art Argentina Collection. Acrylic Mixed Media on Canvas. 100 x 95.5.<\/p>\n\n\n

<\/strong>Diego Armando Maradona naci\u00f3 en Lan\u00fas, Buenos Aires, Argentina, el 30 de octubre de 1960. Jugador de futbol hasta su retirada en el a\u00f1o 1997 ha sido desde entonces director t\u00e9cnico de la selecci\u00f3n argentina y otros equipos internacionales. Apodado \u201cEl Pelusa\u201d y \u201cEl Diez\u201d, porque luci\u00f3 este n\u00famero en su camiseta, est\u00e1 considerado uno de los mejores jugadores de la historia de este deporte. Tengo en la memoria el recuerdo del sonido de las retransmisiones de los partidos, por radio y televisi\u00f3n, los gritos euf\u00f3ricos de todos los argentinos reaccionando a sus jugadas. Maradona ha sido, sigue siendo, un h\u00e9roe para los argentinos, un icono con su ascenso y su ca\u00edda. Por esa raz\u00f3n quise reflejar en la obra un momento de \u00e9xtasis, el del triunfo contra Inglaterra del Mundial de M\u00e9xico (1986), quiz\u00e1 el partido m\u00e1s celebrado de su carrera que se festej\u00f3 con miles de papeles blancos en todos los rincones de Buenos Aires, y por otro lado la visi\u00f3n de un Maradona ya grande, padre de familia con el detalle de los tatuajes con los nombres de sus hijas. Los colores que he utilizado, no pod\u00eda ser de otra manera, son los amarillos y azules que representan al Boca Juniors y por ah\u00ed escondida se puede ver la famosa \u201cmano de D10s\u201d como \u00e9l mismo la llam\u00f3. En un partido del Mundial 1986, Argentina – Inglaterra, V\u00edctor Hugo Morales<\/a> dice: “Ah\u00ed la tiene Maradona, lo marcan dos, pisa la pelota Maradona. Arranca por la derecha, el genio del f\u00fatbol mundial. Puede tocar para Burruchaga<\/a>… Siempre Maradona. \u00a1Genio, genio, genio! Ta, ta, ta, ta, ta … \u00a1Gooooooool goooooooool! \u00a1Quiero llorar! \u00a1Dios santo, viva el f\u00fatbol, golaaaazo! \u00a1Diegoooo! \u00a1Maradona! Es para llorar, perd\u00f3neme, Maradona en recorrida memorable, en la jugada de todos los tiempos, barrilete c\u00f3smico, \u00bfde qu\u00e9 planeta vinista para dejar en el camino a tanto ingl\u00e9s, para que el pa\u00eds sea un pu\u00f1o apretado gritando por Argentina? Argentina 2 – Inglaterra 0. \u00a1Diego, Diego!, Diego Armando Maradona. Gracias Dios. Por el f\u00fatbol, por Maradona, por estas l\u00e1grimas, por este Argentina 2 – Ingalterra 0.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Messi<\/h3>\n\n\n

2012. New media on canvas, 115 \u00d7 86 cm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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International figures<\/h3>\n\n\n
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\"Audrey<\/figure>\n\n\n

Audrey Hepburn<\/h3>\n\n\n
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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.<\/div><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n

2012. Mixed media on canvas, 100 \u00d7 75 cm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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\"Jim<\/figure>\n\n\n

Jim Morrison<\/h3>\n\n\n

2012. Mixed media on canvas, 115 \u00d7 86 cm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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\"Marilyn\"<\/figure>\n\n\n

Marilyn<\/h3>\n\n\n
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<\/strong>“Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n

2012. Mixed media on canvas, 115 \u00d7 86 cm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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\"Salvador<\/figure>\n\n\n

Salvador Dal\u00ed<\/h3>\n\n\n

2012. Mixed media on canvas, 115 \u00d7 86 cm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Pop-Art Argentina (2012) is a series of portraits of key figures in the history of Argentina, seen through the artist\u2019s eyes: Borges, Fangio, Quino, Tita Merello, Susana Gim\u00e9nez, Charly Garc\u00eda, Piazzolla, Evita, Gardel, Julio Bocca, Che Guevara, Cort\u00e1zar and Maradona. Through commissions it later grew to include international figures such as Audrey Hepburn, Jim Morrison,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fsmb_year":"","fsmb_venue":"","fsmb_medium":"","fsmb_collection":"","fsmb_exhibition":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-argentina","category-paintings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/florenciabruck.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/florenciabruck.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/florenciabruck.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/florenciabruck.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/florenciabruck.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/florenciabruck.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8205,"href":"https:\/\/florenciabruck.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203\/revisions\/8205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/florenciabruck.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/florenciabruck.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/florenciabruck.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}