Rafael Squirru
Rafael Squirru was born on the 23 rd March 1925. He is an argentine poet, lecturer, an art critic and an essayist. source of picture:...
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Rafael Squirru was born on the 23rd March 1925. He is an
argentine poet, lecturer, an art critic and an essayist.
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Biography
Rafael Squirru was born and raised in the city of Buenos Aires in
Argentina. He was educated at the Saint Andrew's Scot
School and at the Jesuit
El Salvador Secondary School. He completed his higher education at the
University of Edinburgh in the year 1948.
After he had found
the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Arts in the year 1956, Rafael Squirru went on to champion the cause
of the Argentine and Latin American arts being the Director of the Cultural
Affairs of the country in the year 1960 in the government regime of Arturo
Frondizi.
He was named the Cultural director of the |Organization of American
States in the year 1963 with the headquarters located in Washington DC and he
kept on with the job of promoting the North and Latin American Culture until he
resigned in the year 1970. It was at the period that he supported the edifice
of the impressive commemorative cenotaph to the United Stated President called John
F. Kennedy by the artist from Uruguay called Lincoln Presno in QuemúQuemú.
Back in the city of
Buenos Aires, where he is currently residing with the wife, Rafael Squirru has supported the culture of
the country in all of its existence with the use of many activities of lectures
in his own nation and outside the country.
Most of his poetry and prose volume writings have been published over the
years and most of them today are out of print and are hard to see.
Rafael Squirru has corresponded with the following personalities; Sir
Herbert Read, Edward Albee, Julio Cortázar, Alejandra Pizarnik, Jackie Kennedy,
Henry Miller, Fernando Demaría,Marco Denevi, Robert F. Kennedy, Alberto
Ginastera,Edward Hopper, Ned O'Gorman,Antonio Berni, Leonardo Castellani,
Emilio Pettoruti, Thomas Merton, and LeopoldoMarechal.
Books
Ø Barragán, 1960.
Ø LeopoldoPresas, 1972.
Ø Pérez Celis, 1973.
Ø Albino Fernández, 1975.
Ø Antonio Berni, 1975.
Ø Guillermo Roux, 1975.
Ø Pintura, pintura, sietevaloresargentinos en el arte
actual,
, 1975.
Ø Luis Seoane, 1978.
Ø Liberti, 1978.
Ø Arte de América: 25 años de crítica,
1979.
Ø HéctorGiuffré, 1980.
Ø Buenos Aires y susesculturas,
1981.
Ø Eduardo Mac Entyre, 1981.
Ø Aldo Severi, 1982.
Ø Arte argentino hoy. Unaselección de 48 artistas,
1983.
Ø Juan Del Prete, 1984.
Ø Mariano Pagés: 1945-1983,
1984.
Ø Four Contemporary Painters from Argentina: HoracioBustos,
Pérez Celis, Kenneth Kemble, Juan Carlos Liberti, 1986.
Ø Miguel Ocampo, 1986.
Ø Kenneth Kemble, 1987.
Ø Elena Tarasido: la opción de la libertad,
1988.
Ø Inés Bancalari 1976-1987,
1988.
Ø Cuarenta maestros del arte de los Argentinos
(with I. Gutiérrez Zaldivar), 1990.
Ø Gyula Kosice: obrasMadi,
1990.
Ø Quinquela: popular y clásico,
1990.
Ø Juan M. Sánchez, 1991.
Ø Mara Marini, 1992.
Ø Carpanicabalga al tigre
(con M. Vincent), 1994.
Ø Roma Geber. Imágenesurbanas,
1997.
Ø Leopoldo Torres Agüero,
1999.
Ø Perez Celis (with Frederick Ted
Castle and Peter Frank), 1999
Art criticism
in verse
Ø 49 artistas de América: itinerariopoético,
1984.
Poetry
Ø La nocheiluminada, 1957.
Ø Amor 33, 1958.
Ø Números, 1960.
Ø Awareness of Love (poetical comment on
the work of Juan Downey), 1966.
Ø Poesía 1957-1966, 1966.
Ø Poesía 1966-1970, 1970.
Ø Poesía 1970-1971. La edaddelcerdo y otrospoemas,
1971.
Ø Poesía 1971-1973. Quincunceamericano,
1973.
Ø Poesía 1973-1975. Cuaderno de bitácora,
1975.
Ø Poesía 1975-1977. La Corona,
1977.
Ø Números. Veinteaños de poesía (1957-1977),
1977.
Ø Chrysopeya del buenamor,
1986.
Essays
Ø Filosofía del arte abstracto,
1961.
Ø LeopoldoMarechal, 1961.
Ø The Challenge of the New Man. A cultural approach
to the Latin American scene.
Ø Towards a World Community,
1968.
Ø Martin Fierro.
Ø Ángeles y Monstruos. EnsayosBreves,
1986.
Ø Hacia la pintura: comoapreciarla,
1988
Ø Exigencias del arte, 1989.
Ø El artista y sutiempo, 1991.
Ø Arte y humanismo, 1993.
Ø Libros y libros, cuadros y cuadros,
1995.
Awards
Ø Doctor
HonorisCausa in Humanities, University of Neuquén, Argentina
Ø Doctor
HonorisCausa in Humanities, University of Morón, Argentina
Ø Konex
Platinum Award in Visual Arts, Konex Foundation, Buenos Aires
Ø Gratia
Artis Prize of the Academia Nacional de BellasArtes, Argentina
Ø Honorary
Member of The Association of The Corcoran Gallery
Ø Consultant
Member of the CARI (ConsejoArgentinoRelacionesInternacionales) of Buenos Aires
Ø Honorary
Member of the Miguel Lillo Foundation, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina
Ø Honorary
Member of the Academia de BellasArtes of Chile
Ø Lorenzutti
Foundation Prize for Art Criticism
