Jorge Lezama
B. 1921, Buenos Aires, Argentina. - D. 2011, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
“Today I am more modest, I do not investigate, I do not even experiment, I only paint lines and colors that produce pleasure and amuse me. “ Jorge Lezama. Buenos Aires, 1990.
Born in Buenos Aires in 1921, Argentina. He studied at the workshops of Emilio Centurión and Adolfo De Ferrari in painting, and those of Bigatti, Guido, Spilimbergo and Curatella Manes in mural. During the 50s, he turned definitively to geometric abstraction. He participated in national and provincial shows and exhibited at Galatea, Corot, Hampton, Van Riel, Marienbad, Arte Nuevo and Müller galleries, among others. He joined the Asociación Arte Nuevo, founded by Aldo Pellegrini in order to bring together all the “non-representative” artists, among whom are Arden Quin, Melé, Tomasello, Silva and, later, Kemble, Polesello, Paternosto. He exhibited in Europe and Latin America. His work as a teacher who worked in major national universities and art schools and as rector of the National School of Fine Arts Prilidiano Pueyrredón, among other positions. In his last years he made a revisionism of his work, going from abstraction to figuration, constantly looking for new images. He died in 2011 in Buenos Aires.
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