Josefina Robirosa
Bio
She was born in Buenos Aires on May 26, 1932.
In 1956 she exhibited for the first time at the Bonino gallery, accompanied by Domingo Bucci and Jorge de la Vega. In 1959 she made her first individual show and Jorge Romero Brest invited her to the São Paulo Biennial. In the following years he called her for the first edition of the Di Tella Award and the Ver y Estimar Honor Award.
In the 1990s her monographic book was published and the MBA presented a retrospective. In 2002, a new anthological show at the Centro Cultural Recoleta.
She is in numerous private and institutional collections. She is an academic of the National Academy of Fine Arts, she was a member of the board of the National Arts Fund and was a jury of numerous awards.
In 2010 the Buenos Aires Legislature declared her Outstanding Personality of Buenos Aires.
Statement
Robirosa does not part of the geometry, but meets her. Her geometry is part of a figurative development that never needs to be opposed. Human figure and context op - to put it in terms of Aldo Pellegrini - are part of the same, forms that seek their harmony and are not arranged according to their differences. There is tension between the two, but it is a rhetorical distinction at all times. Robirosa’s human figures cross her infinite color staves in the folding of volumes: they are presented to us as complex folds or pleats of a unique and contained matter and represented in the colorful succession of lines.
Extract from the book Josefina Robirosa by Rafael Cippolini
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
