"Buenos Aires saw him born in 1896, when the pictorial profession acted as the almost absolute ruler of turn-of-the-century aesthetics."

"Excellent draftsman," says Sonia Decker, "very refined engraver and one of the few true muralist talents in our country, Spilimbergo builds his figures and his landscapes, avoiding any decorative or anecdotal resources, to transform them into essential, absolutely universal works."

This judgment already explains the validity of her art, but the author enters here into a special stage of her artistic creation, the one that bequeathed us the series of thirty-four monoprints titled “Brief History of Emma's Life,” a masterful creation of an artist committed to social issues.

Interesting journey through the life of a German painter and photographer who arrived in our country in 1887, trained in Berlin. Rohland, a specialist in the history of the German-speaking minority in Argentina, tells us about the biography of an elusive artist in the historiography of art and photography in the region. While passing through these lands, Karl Oenike participated in different expeditions that first entered the center and later, through the northwest of Argentina - he visited the provinces of Córdoba, Catamarca, La Rioja and Salta - and even through Paraguay and Brazil.

Although few works are known referring to his experience in Argentina, it is auspicious to retrace his footprints.

«Pedro Juan was born on July 26, 1878 in Colonia Esperanza, province of Santa Fe, Argentina, a place characterized by being a colony of Swiss immigrants. He entered the Jesuit novitiate in 1898 and moved to Córdoba in 1914. While in this city he was entrusted with writing the history of the Society of Jesus in 1916 and, from there, his interest in writing and graphic representation was awakened. From the past. He served as parish priest in different neighborhood churches such as those in Barrio Zumarán and La France, in addition to the Compañía de Jesús, a church located in the historic center of the city of Córdoba.

From early on, Grenón participated in spaces that wanted to build history as a scientific discipline through the creation of magazines, archives and institutions.

The travel chronicles of our faithful collaborator allow us to discover distant worlds in geography and time. This time she shares the surprise of a discovery and her excitement when exploring the work of an internationally renowned Turin artist.

Among paper and metal dinosaurs, among other materials, Podgorny walked through the vestiges of those beings that became faithful companions of humans. «Today, dinosaurs – she says – sneak in through windows and cracks [...]».

«Deep minds, sharp pens, complex personalities, sometimes incendiary, all very different from each other but united by a fundamental characteristic: having (re)animated and fructified, with the magazines that they themselves founded and directed, the intellectual and political debate of the country in the first decades of the last century. Now, for the first time, a museum describes and narrates in its entirety, through the pages of its own protagonists, this restless and fertile period, fervent with ideas, visions, provocations whose genius and avant-garde scope has resisted the wear and tear of time and continues to generate fruits today.

Member of our team, composer, pianist, playwright, musical and theater director, Guillermo delves into the depths of Italian Futurism, a movement that had its echoes in our country.

«There is currently a resurgence in interest in what is handmade, antagonistic to industrial products developed in chains. A new value has been given to craftsmanship in the contemporary world, where sustainable work, the conservation of traditional techniques and individual creative expression have finally become visible in many cases [...]».

The voice of the director of one of the most important South American institutions, the Inter-American Center of Crafts and Popular Art, CIDAP, domiciled in Cuenca, Ecuador, addresses certain crossroads of craftsmanship in the twenty-first century.