{"id":2126,"date":"2023-09-20T14:17:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T17:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/artistas\/fernandez-pepe\/"},"modified":"2024-05-25T20:20:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T23:20:57","slug":"fernandez-pepe","status":"publish","type":"artistas","link":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/artistas\/fernandez-pepe\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernandez Pepe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda \u201cPepe\u201d Fern\u00e1ndez was born in Buenos Aires on December 16 th, 1928.
At an early age he started studying piano and developed an eagerness for reading.
In 1945 he met the poet Juan Rodolfo Wilcock who got him in touch with the porte\u00f1a intelectual elite, with char\u00e1cters such as Silvina Ocampo, Adolfo Bioy Casares and Jorge Luis Borges. In the meantime he developed a profound
friendship with Alberto Greco and Mar\u00eda Elena Walsh whom, in 1968 , dedicated him the song\u201cZamba para Pepe\u201d. His family house in Ramos Mej\u00eda, turned into a place of gathering where musicians, artits and intelectuals of different generations got together.
Invited by Silvina Ocampo in1954 he travelled to Paris, where his exiled Friends were waiting for him. Two years later he returned to Buenos Aires where he started working for Editorial Abril first as a photonovel screenwriter and then as an editor for Claudia magazine. After his parents deaths in 1963 he returned to France where he established definitely .In 1969 he moved to the attic in an old building of la rue du Four, appartment where he lived for thirty years and became a meeting point for all the artistic and literary argentinian community.
In the 70 \u0301s Pepe published his first literary chronicles at the Argentine magazine Semana gr\u00e1fica and started working as a correspondent for Editorial Abril.
For ilustrating his articles, he started making his first profesional photographs. By the end of the decade his images were not only published in Argentinian magazines but also in L\u2019Expr\u00e9s, Le Nouvel Observateur, Vogue, and other european publications.
He transformed into an inescapable portraitist for argentinian and latinoamericans actors, musicians, artists and writers, who visited Paris. The portraits were never made in studios, his charsima and sensibility allowed him a sense of intimacy and complicity with the portrayed that is revealed in the images. In 1978 he took the photograph that became his most famous one, Borges, standing at the center of a star in L\u2019H\u00f4tel \u0301s lobby. He also portrayed argentine sportmen that became famous in France like Carlos Monz\u00f3n or Guillermo Vilas with whom he forged friendships. Beside his portraits and journalism coverage he developed a number of naked male series and scenes captured in Paris streets and Caf\u00e9s.
He exhibited his works in Par\u00eds, New York, Buenos Aires, M\u00e9xico and Budapest. In 1991 he presented a solo-show exhibition in Buenos Aires, at the Fotogaler\u00eda del Teatro General San Mart\u00edn, organised by Sara Facio. In 2004 his last solo-show took place at the Centro de Arte Moderno de Madrid. He died in july 2006 in his appartment of rue du Four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2125,"template":"","tags":[213,259,279,333,260],"class_list":["post-2126","artistas","type-artistas","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-1980-1990-en","tag-cuerpos-en","tag-fotografia-en","tag-urbanidad-en","tag-cultura-visual-en","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artistas\/2126","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\/2125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}