Alberto Heredia (sculptor)
Alberto Heredia
Alberto Heredia (1924-2000) was a “self-taught’ painter and sculptor from Argentina. His mainly expressionistic work encompassed themes of the human condition regarding consumption and power.[1] Through use of garbage and found objects assembled into sculptures, he created narratives of consumerism and censorship that he found plagued Argentina.[2] Heredia’s work expresses loneliness, love and death and shares with us his view of exasperated existence.[3]
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Alberto Carlos Heredia was born in the city of Buenos Aires on March 4, 1924. He was the first-born of four siblings. His father Hector Heredia was a merchant, and his mother Margarita Matilde Tramullas was the daughter of a Spanish family that had first emigrated to France and later to Argentina in 1916. His Spanish ancestry comes to him through his mother’s side, with which he identifies deeply within his life and his art. He had a religious and protective upbringing thanks to his mother but was extremely affected by the dramatic death of his father. His father was an authoritarian figure and gambler, and although his death was labeled an “accident”, the artist’s memories reconstruct a violent death, probably related to gambling debts.[4] Alberto Heredia passed away in the same city he was born in at the age of 76 in 2000.[5]
List of Exhibitions
1967, “Surrealism in Argentina”, Instituto Torcuato Di Tella
1971, “The Artist and the World of Consumption”, Carmen Gallery
1971, “Useful and Useless Objects”, Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires
1972, “Artist Award Salon with Acrilicopaolini III”, Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires
1974, “Art System’s in Latin America”, Institute of Contemporary Arts in London
1978, “Alberto Heredia”, Balmaceda Gallery in Buenos Aires
1979, “Postfiguration, curated by Jorge Glusberg”, Center for Art and Communication
1992-1993, “Latin American Artists of the 20th Century”, (traveling show)
List of Works
La Estaca, 1960, mixed media
Camembert Boxes, 1962, mixed media
El Filmador, 1967, film
El Tunel, 1971, immersive mixed media
Engendro, 1972, mixed media
Sandwich homus, 1972, mixed media
Melba Cups, 1975, mixed media
Anclada, 1978, mixed media
Jean, 1984, mixed media
Niños enveueltos a la Heredia, 1980, film
Macho Tango, 1988, mixed media
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- ^ Buccellato, Laura (1998). Alberto Heredia Retrospective (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Delmiro Mendez e Hijo. p. 104.
- ^ Buccellato, Laura (1998). Alberto Heredia Retrospective (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Delmiro Mendez y Hijo. p. 101.
- ^ Buccellato, Laura (1998). Alberto Heredia Retrospective (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Delmiro Mendez y Hijo. p. 102.
- ^ Buccellato, Laura (1998). Alberto Heredia Retrospective (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Delmiro Mendez y Hijo. p. 95.
- ^ Buccellato, Laura (2009). Alberto Heredia (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero,. p. 25.
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