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"Women" charcoal drawing from 1963 by Jack Vanarsky.
52.5 x 37.5 cm, unframed.
The frame is just a decorative idea.
Jack Vanarsky was born in 1936 in General Roca, Argentina, the northern Patagonian town where his family of Lithuanian and Belorussian origin had settled. As a teenager, he moved to the capital to study at the Colejio Nacional de Buenos Aires, then Architecture at the University of Buenos Aires. At the same time, he attended art workshops run by Cecilia Marcovitch, Juan Carlos Castagnino, Antonio Berni and Lino Eneas Spilimbergo, and began working as a journalist for opposition publications. While the legacy of Mexican muralism raised the question of political painting in Latin America, Jack Vanarsky's drawings and paintings were closer to an individual expressionism imbued with strong social criticism. In 1962, he made a trip to several European countries: Spain, Italy, France, Holland, Germany, Finland and Czechoslovakia, at the end of which he settled in Paris with his partner, painter Cristina Martinez.
In 1965, Vanarsky began creating mobile sculptures. By 1968, these were made up of slats animated by an occult mechanism, a process he maintained, adapting it throughout his work.
Vanarsky is also distinguished by the subjects he tackles, far removed from the abstraction of kinetic art. These include figures and fragments of fragmented bodies, footprints and handprints, books, foliage, ropes, arrows, rulers, mathematical tools, butterflies, ledges, active hands and eroticism.
He is noted for the particular transformations he performs on certain works by important figures in art history: Mondrian, Duchamp, Van Gogh, Munch, Bernini, or Topor, and for the references he weaves with the world of literature, especially with the writers Borges, Kafka and Pessoa.
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ConditionExcellentColorsWhite, BlackMaterialPaperNumber of items1OrientationPortraitArt sizeMediumHeight53 cmWidth38 cm