Noemí Gerstein

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Noemí Gerstein (November 10, 1910 – June 14, 1996) was an

Noemí Gerstein was born November 10, 1910,^[1][2] in Buenos Aires, where she continued to live and work. In 1934, she began training under Alfredo Bigatti^[3][4] In the 1950s, she received a government grant to travel to France, where she studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris under the tutelage of Ossip Zadkine.^[1][4] In 1952, Gerstein was one of the winners of the Institute of Contemporary Arts' design competition for the Unknown Political Prisoner Monument.^[5][6] Gerstein's works were predominantly abstract, and she "experimented with new materials."^[6] She had a preference for metallic constructions, such as Constellation (1963), which used small pieces of tubing.^[2] She died June 14, 1996.^[7]

Selected works

• Monumento al prisionero político desconocido (1953)
• Madre e hijo (1953)
• Maternidad (1954)
• La familia (En ocasiones llamada "El Oráculo") (1960)
• El samurai (1961)
• Los amantes (1961)
• Nacimiento (1961)
• Goliath (1961–62)
• Meteorito (1969)
• Achiras (1973)
• L’Art et L’Homme (1974)
• Seoane Músicos
• Milagro de la vida
• Seres híbridos (1978)

Awards

• 1982, Konex Foundation Platinum Award - non-figurative sculpture^[8]

References

• Cao, Marián L. F. (2000). Creación artística y mujeres: recuperar la memoria (in Spanish). Madrid: Narcea.
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• Irigoyen, Taberna (1967). Aproximación a la escultura argentina de este siglo (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Colomegna.

External links

• Noemí Gerstein at Konex Foundation (in Spanish)
• Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes' article (in Spanish)
• Clarín's article (in Spanish)
• El Arca article (in Spanish)

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