Title: Rafael Barradas
Description: A magna exhibition dedicated to Rafael Barradas (b. Montevideo 1890 - 1929). In these years, Barradas meets with Joaquin Torres-Garcia and attends artistic gatherings with poets, critics and artists such as Salvador Dalí, Luis Buñuel, Federico García Lorca, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Guillermo de Torre and Norah and Jorge Luis Borges, Norah y Jorge Luis. At the same time he makes drawings for different graphic media and several magazines of the Ultraist movement, of which he was a main representative. The exhibition at Malba will also dislpay, a selection of Joaquín Torres-Garcíaœs work, alongside Barradasœ oeuvre, to recreate the connection they had and show how their works correspond to one another, both having been so significant for Latin American Modernism.

A magna exhibition dedicated to Rafael Barradas (b. Montevideo 1890 - 1929). In these years, Barradas meets with Joaquin Torres-Garcia and attends artistic gatherings with poets, critics and artists such as Salvador Dalí, Luis Buñuel, Federico García Lorca, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Guillermo de Torre and Norah and Jorge Luis Borges, Norah y Jorge Luis. At the same time he makes drawings for different graphic media and several magazines of the Ultraist movement, of which he was a main representative. The exhibition at Malba will also dislpay, a selection of Joaquín Torres-Garcíaœs work, alongside Barradasœ oeuvre, to recreate the connection they had and show how their works correspond to one another, both having been so significant for Latin American Modernism.
Subjects: Exhibitions, Criticism and inerpretation, Uruguayan Painting
People: Rafael Barradas (1890-1929)
Time periods: 20th century