VIDA VENTUROSA [Happy Life]
Yente and Juan Del Prete
12.15.2023-02.18.2024 Instituto Tomie Ohtake
Instituto Tomie Ohtake ended 2023 by strengthening its affiliation with Malba, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, by hosting Yente-Del Prete at São Paulo. Vida venturosa was a show planned and presented at the Argentinian museum in 2022, receiving in turn Anna Maria Maiolino’s retrospective exhibition, initially planned by the São Paulo-based cultural organization, in the same year.
This exhibition, focused on the artists couple Eugenia Crenovich (Buenos Aires, 1905-1990), known as Yente, and Juan Del Prete (Vasto, 1897-Buenos Aires, 1987), was curated by researcher and head curator of Malba María Amalia García, highlighting the creative synergy and the loving bond of the pair as a way of approaching artistic creation.
WORK LOAN
Juan Del Prete
Abstracción formas planas III [Abstraction Plane Forms III]
1954, oil on wood, 203 × 75.5 cm
Juan Del Prete (Italy, 1897-Argentina, 1987)
A self-taught artist, he explored matter and color in compositions that alternate between figuration and abstraction. He held his first solo show in 1926 and won a scholarship to travel to Paris in 1929; he joined the avant-garde and became a member of the Abstraction-Création group there. Back in Buenos Aires, he presented the first exhibition of non-figurative art in Argentina. He embraced an informalist aesthetic in the fifties. He received many awards, including the International Grand Prix in Brussels in 1958.