{"id":2382,"date":"2023-09-21T00:17:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T03:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/artistas\/grela-juan\/"},"modified":"2024-05-25T20:20:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T23:20:20","slug":"grela-juan","status":"publish","type":"artistas","link":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/artistas\/grela-juan\/","title":{"rendered":"Grela Juan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Juan Grela was born in 1914 in San Miguel de Tucum\u00e1n. In 1925 he settled in Rosario, the city where he died in 1992.<br>Since 1939 he participated in multiple individual and group exhibitions, as well as in salons in several provinces. He developed important work in the field of teaching in his home-workshop, where several generations of artists passed.<br>He received numerous awards, among which are the Rosario Prize and the Emilio Pettoruti Prize in Painting awarded by the National Fund for the Arts.<br>He was a member of the Popular Mutuality of Students and Plastic Artists of Rosario. He co-founded Grupo Litoral. In the formulation of his aesthetic-critical discourse, he took as a reference Antonio Berni, his initial teacher and father of Mutualidad, and Joaqu\u00edn Torres Garc\u00eda, from whom he learned the aesthetic-philosophical premises of Constructive Universalism that guided his production since the mid-1960s. 50s and during the 60s.<br>Among the awards he obtained, it is worth highlighting: Rosario National Hall Award (1941, 1942 and 1945); Municipal Council of Culture Acquisition Award, I Sal\u00f3n del Litoral (1942); National Intervention Acquisition Award of the Province of Santa Fe, Annual Salon of Rosarinos Artists (1944); Chamber of Deputies of the Province Acquisition Award, XXIV Annual Salon of Santa Fe (1948); Cecilia Grierson Award, XXXVIII National Salon of Buenos Aires (1948); Ministry of Justice Acquisition Award, XLI National Hall of Buenos Aires (1951); Frans Van Riel Award, XXXIX Hall of the Society of Watercolorists and Engravers (1957).<br>In August 2016, a series of selected drawings were presented at Diego Obligado Art Gallery, inaugurating the new space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2381,"template":"","tags":[213,226,306,314,273],"class_list":["post-2382","artistas","type-artistas","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-1980-1990-en","tag-animal-en","tag-naturaleza-en","tag-pintura-en","tag-espiritualidad-en","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artistas\/2382","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\/2381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}