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León Ferrari was born in Buenos Aires, 1920. He was awarded the 2007 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale. Ferrari is a multi-faceted artist of great technical skill and conceptual prowess. Recent years have brought him great regard from the international art community and prices for his work have soared.

“León Ferrari’s vibrant and challenging work is conversant with poetry, explores enigmas and metaphors, comments on space and form, creates music, can depict improbable cities and impugn religious and military institutions that monopolize ‘the revealed truth.’

“Ferrari’s reputation and international recognition began less than ten years ago when his work was included in the 2000-survey exhibition ‘Heterotopias’ at the Centro Reina Sofía in Madrid, and... The national scandal brought on by attempts to censure his retrospective exhibition at the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires in 2004, ...

“Today, his ink drawings, collages, sculptures, heliographies, Braille-embossed photographs, objects and installations are all critically acclaimed and in worldwide demand. Ferrari is still active, sharp, working daily and enjoying a fertile creative period as well as experiencing great personal success.”

Victoria Verlichak, 2007, from "Serie de Errores & Works 1962-2007"

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