Yaco Nowens — Pintor judío-argentino — “Colores y formas”/”Colors and Forms

Yaco Nowens

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Yaco Nowens was born in Buenos Aires in 1938. He studied at the Manuel Belgrano National School of Fine Arts and in the workshops of José Maltz and Méndez Terrero until 1965. He worked as a draftsman for Clarín. He was an art theorist and co-editor of the visual arts magazine Óleo y Mármol together with Teresa Pociello. His first exhibitions were as a draftsman, alongside Quino, Garaycochea and Landrú. In 1964 or 1965 he began to receive invitations and René Morón, his teacher and guide, forced him to exhibit and that’s how he began. He gave national and international lectures. He is a member of the Société des Auteurs dans les Arts Graphiques et Plastiques in Paris. In 1972, invited by the OAS, he traveled to the United States. He exhibited in Argentina, the United States, Israel, Korea, Venezuela, Spain, Ecuador, France and Cuba. “His work from the 1960s was clearly confessional, from an expressionist perspective. Later, impressed by the informalists of the Grupo del Paso in Spain, Pollock and Kooning, his work remained within a lyrical abstraction that allows us to guess the gesture of the brushstroke, keeping the whole within compositions of great geometric balance and akin to the early stages of cubism. With bright colours and lines that sometimes intersect, to allude to a marked and certain landscape figuration”, (Rafael Squirru). Also, under the direction of the visual artist Yaco Nowens, the Jewish and militant newspaper Nueva Presencia continued to be published from 1987 to 1993, the year in which Di Presse went bankrupt definitively.

Retrato de Yaco Nowens por el gran artista judío-argentino Gyula Kosice/A Portrait of Yako Nowens by the great Argentine Jewish artist Gyula Kosice

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