"I want to create a work that communicates
with the viewer. Want to formulate a clear and readable art. Intend to find
formal resolutions speech effectively exercised." With these words, he
defined his works the artist Pablo Suarez, Argentine painter and sculptor, who
despite having attended painting workshops always defined as self-
Between shots and long hours of training in the
gym, Suarez, conducted art workshops taught by Raquel Forner and Alfredo
Bigatti. The unusual combination of something so rude like boxing with art,
Suarez made a unique artist.
Driven by his mentor Antonio Berni and
encouragement Alberto Greco, chose art as the means to develop their careers.
In 1959, he made his first public participation in an exhibition in Bulgaria
During the decade of 60, participated in
several meetings and discussions held at the legendary bar Modern redoubt which
artists like Alberto Greco, Emilio Renart, Ruben Santantonín and Jorge de la
Vega, among others. He was part of a cultural movement, formed in the Visual
Arts Center Di Tella Institute, where he participated in the controversy shows
Experiences 68 and did not hesitate to sign the manifesto to the director of
the institution, against censorship on the work performed by Bath Roberto
Plate.
In early
70s, left the Di Tella Institute, and moved to St. Louis ,
(province in north of Argentina Buenos Aires
The end of the military dictatorship and the
return of democracy in the hands of President Raul Alfonsin, took Paul Suarez
to settle again in Buenos Aires
In this new stage of his career, his works are
characterized by colorful paint and gestural brushwork. While the sculpture,
presented a grotesque shade, with characters modeled in resin arising pictorial
support plane into space.
In his later years, taught classes for artist
grants from the Foundation in the Workshop Torches Barracks. In 2000, he moved
to Colonia del Sacramento , Uruguay , while returning to Buenos Aires
Undoubtedly, Pablo Suarez (1937 - H2006), was
an artist who was not afraid to parody the reality we see every day. From a
critical stance reflected the social, political and cultural reality of Argentina
"My job is within the parodic. Use the
grotesque, a strip between the convention and horror. Want people through my
work, I find. Trying to enter the other's eyes and there remain. Perhaps it is
a way to say no to anything. "Thus, his work defined Suarez, who succeeded
in passing in each of his works his look of today's society.
His work those still valid, contemporary
issues, that despite the passing of the years, they still reflect traits of
black humor, satire, parody acid criticism and social political landscape we
live daily.
His characters express deep looks of
bewilderment and incomprehension at the controversial situation should
Starring: Being an ingredient in a soup or be about to be crushed by a stone.
Undoubtedly, "Exclusion" (1999) and
object box measuring approximately 190 x 200 x 32 cm , consisting of a wooden
support, and a two-dimensional figure molded epoxy resin. It is the work that
most resembles today. Simple and clear picture that repeats a scene (a man with
a naked torso, hair flying and eyes wide, taking the force of the bars of the
door of the train, which closed before he could get) that we can easily
recognize, with only situate near the Argentine railway tracks.
Clearly, Pablo Suarez, knew confront the viewer
with their own reality. That´s reality with which live every day. His works
invite to look at them and find almost imperceptible details. Visual stimuli
which face a truth that looks without looking.
By. Maria Florencia Ferreyro
