{"id":2082,"date":"2023-09-20T12:56:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T15:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/artistas\/espinosa-manuel\/"},"modified":"2024-05-25T20:21:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T23:21:15","slug":"espinosa-manuel","status":"publish","type":"artistas","link":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/artistas\/espinosa-manuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Espinosa Manuel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Manuel Espinosa was born in Buenos Aires in 1912. He attended the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes and the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes Ernesto de la C\u00e1rcova.<br>After a brief surrealist period, he is co-founder of the Asociaci\u00f3n Arte Concreto-Invenci\u00f3n.<br>He subscribes the Manifiesto Invencionista and participates in the exhibitions presented by the group in 1946: in March, the Peuser Salon; in September, the one organized at the Centro de Profesores Diplomados de Ense\u00f1anza Secundaria; in October, at the Sociedad Argentina de Artistas Pl\u00e1sticos (SAAP) and in the same month at the Ateneo Popular de La Boca.<br>Later his work remains within a geometric abstraction characterized by the repetition of the square or circle throughout the compositional surface. On this serial disposition he works shadows, superimpositions and displacements, which allow him to incorporate spatial relations of advance and retreat.<br>He is part of group exhibitions such as Del arte concreto a la nueva tendencia, Museo de Arte Moderno (1963), M\u00e1s all\u00e1 de la geometr\u00eda, Instituto Torcuato Di Tella (1967), Salon Camparaison, Paris (1967), Veinticinco artistas argentinos, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (1970), International Biennial of Cagnes-sur-Mer, France (1970), Projection and Dynamics, Mus\u00e9e d&#8217;Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1973), Current Trends in Argentine Art, Artistic Center of International Meetings, Nice, France (1974), among others.<br>In the 80&#8217;s he participates in exhibitions of the trend called &#8220;sensitive abstraction&#8221;, among which is Geometr\u00eda 81, presented at the Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes de La Plata. In the city of Buenos Aires he takes part in La geometr\u00eda. Homage to Max Bill, organized by the Centro de Arte y Comunicaci\u00f3n, La abstracci\u00f3n sensible, an exhibition accompanying the Jornadas de la Cr\u00edtica, both held in 1981, and Del constructivismo a la geometr\u00eda sensible, presented at Harrods in May 1992, among others.<br>He has participated in the main exhibitions dealing with the development of abstraction in the R\u00edo de la Plata. Among them are Homenaje a la vanguardia argentina de la d\u00e9cada del &#8217;40, held at the Galer\u00eda Arte Nuevo (1976), in Vanguardias de la d\u00e9cada del &#8217;40. Concrete Art-Invention. Mad\u00ed Art. Perceptismo, Museo Eduardo S\u00edvori (1980) and among the most recent, in Abstract art from R\u00edo de la Plata. Buenos Aires and Montevideo 1933\/53, presented at The Americas Society, New York (2001). In 2001 the Juan B. Castagnino Museum in Rosario dedicated a tribute exhibition to him.<br>He died in Buenos Aires on January 24, 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2081,"template":"","tags":[235,233,338,314,271],"class_list":["post-2082","artistas","type-artistas","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-arte-de-participacion-en","tag-arte-concreto-en","tag-optico-cinetico-en","tag-pintura-en","tag-escultura-en","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artistas\/2082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artistas"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artistas"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}