Raquel Partnoy
Raquel Partnoy | |
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| Born | 1932 Rosario, Santa Fe |
| Nationality | Argentine |
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Raquel Partnoy (born 1932 in
Rosario, Santa Fe) is an Argentine
painter, poet, and essayist.
Biography
She studied at an art school in that city but it was after she got married and moved to the southern port city of Bahía Blanca in 1954, that she attended for several years the Buenos Aires's workshop of the influential Argentine painter and teacher Demetrio Urruchúa.[1]
Partnoy's first show was at Van Riel Gallery in 1965, and she continued to paint and held exhibitions at diverse venues in
Embassy of Argentina in Washington, D.C. Partnoy exhibited her series “Women of the Tango” and “Tango: Inner Landscapes” in 1997 and 2003, where she portrayed stories found in tango lyrics such of those of young women who were discriminated against and mistreated by society. She has also had solo exhibits at the B'nai B'rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum, Goucher College, and Washington's Studio Gallery.[2]
Through her series of paintings “Surviving Genocide,” which was shown at the
concentration camp La Escuelita in Bahía Blanca. She was imprisoned for a total of three years[1] in other jails. Both Raquel Partnoy's essay on “Surviving Genocide” and the images of her paintings on this subject, were published in The Jewish Diaspora in Latin American and the Caribbean: Fragments of Memory, Kristin Ruggiero, ed. Sussex Academic Press, UK, 2005.[3]
She is the illustrator of The Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival, written by her daughter Alicia Partnoy.
References
- ^ Partnoy, Raquel. “The Silent Witness." in Women Writing Resistance: essays on Latin America and the Caribbean. Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez, Ed. Cambridge, Massachusetts: South End Press, 2005.
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