Petrona Viera
Subtitle: el hacer insondable
By: [textos : Beatriz Argimón, Pablo da Silveira, Enrique Aguerre, María Eugenia Grau, Verónica Panella]
Contributors: Panella, Verónica, 1974-, writer of supplementary textual; Grau, María Eugenia, 1958-, writer of supplementary textual; Aguerre, Enrique, writer of supplementary textual content; Silveira, Pablo da, writer of supplementary textual content; Argimón, Beatriz, writer of supplementary textual content; Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales de Montevideo (Uruguay)
Edition: Primera edición.
Publisher: Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Ministerio de Educación y Cultura.
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Montevideo, Uruguay
Language: spa
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Catalogs; Exhibitions; Uruguayan Painting; Uruguayan Art
Description: Considered one of the most extensive core of work preserved in the collection of MNAV (1001 works), for almost 50 years since the family donation to the Museum, Petrona Vieraœs (Uruguay 1895-1960) work was always exhibited in collectives with other Uruguayan artists. In recent years the interest in her work has been increasing as attested by the exhibition of her woodcuts. However, this is the first monographic exhibition dedicated to the noted artist, considered the first female professional artist in Uruguay. Known but ignored in art circles, Petrona's work would seem destined to be defined according to others (as the daughter of President Feliciano Viera or the disciple of modernist artists Guillermo Laborde and Guillermo C. Rodriguez) and to a role to some extent anecdotal in a constellation of planists. The "children's painter", almost a child herself in the hyperintegrated gaze of her contemporaries, the "friendly little woman" summarily reviewed in the pages of Mundo Uruguayo, deserves a review of those absolute reductionists to which she is associated, in a sample that proposes an approach to the varied creative corpus.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales (MNAV), Montevideo, from February 20 to November 29, 2020.

Includes bibliographical references.

In Spanish with English translations.
Table of contents: title: Petrona Viera / Beatriz Argimón; title: Petrona revisitada / Dr. Pablo da Silveira; title: Petrona Viera: El hacer insondable / María Eugenia Grau, Verónica Panella; title: Serie de retratos familiares. Pastel sobre papel, medidas variables. Sin fecha (probablemente ejecutados en el período deaprendizaje con Vicente Puig); title: Xilografías ejecutadas entre 1940-1955; title: Reseña de exposiciones; title: TRANSLATIONS; title: Petrona Viera / Beatriz Argimón; title: Petrona revisited/ Dr. Pablo da Silveira / Petrona Viera: The unfathomable labor / Dr. Pablo da Silveira; title: María Eugenia Grau Verónica Panella.