As often happens in the history of art, in the face of innovation, of what is different, many have cried to the heavens, discussing not only the artistic quality, but also questioning whether it is truly art. However, to the tranquility -or horror- of the orthodox conservatives of the traditional paradigms of culture, there was already an artist born in Nice, in 1928 -almost a century ago!- and on April 28, 1958, he inaugurated a exhibition entitled "The void" at the Iris Clert Gallery in Paris. In it he did not present any physical work, but a space full of "pictorial sensibility in its purest form". We refer to the great Yves Klein, famous for his paintings and sculptures in a particular blue, the International Klein Blue, (...)

On March 29, Edward Shaw, journalist, photographer, art critic, cultural manager and collector, passed away. The news prompted us to submit an article about his life, his passionate life, and who could do it better than one of his friends…

The exclusive word of the architect Germán Carvajal gives us a testimonial portrait of Ed Shaw, born “(...) in a kind of United Nations created and cultivated by my paternal grandfather, Albert Shaw... in a spacious property on the coast of the Hudson River, outside of New York. My childhood companions… were the group of people at his service, the closest ones, the gardener who came from the South of Italy and the Finnish carpenter who took care of the three big houses he was in charge of. The couple who cooked and waited in my grandfather's dining room were black, which was rare in our community. My grandfather had hired Willa and her husband on the farm in the South Country, before they traveled north to work on their new home there. The shed was full of treasures, little relics of two generations of acquisition and discard. I loved rummaging through trunks, boxes and shelves”.

Notable exhibition inaugurated on April 8 in the halls of the Franklin Rawson Provincial Museum of Fine Arts in the city of San Juan, where it will remain until June 26, 2022. The exhibition is organized in two sections. The first presents to the public a collection of engravings by Renaissance and Baroque artists -among others, Schongauer, Dürer, Rembrandt, van Dick and Rubens-, active during the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. And the second pays tribute to the Belgian engraver Victor Delhez (Antwerp, 1901-Mendoza, 1985), a notable figure in Argentine art, for the 120th anniversary of his birth. Bringing together his work with the old engraving of his native territory proposes to emphasize that those prints did not remain in the past: over time they were the object of study and enjoyment.

We bring you here a presentation text made by its curator, Astrid Maulhardt. An authentic guide to tour the exhibition if you plan to visit the province of San Juan in the next two months, a territory that captivates with its landscapes, its people, its wines - how can I not mention it? - and its art.