User:VEOP2/Alfredo Hlito

Alfredo Hlito
Born	Alfredo Hlito Olivari (1923-05-04)May 4, 1923 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died	March 28, 1993(1993-03-28) (aged 69) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nationality	Argentine
Occupation(s)	Painter Sculptor Art critic
Known for	Concrete Art

Alfredo Hlito Olivari (born May 4, 1923 – March 28, 1993) was an Argentine

Early life and education

Hlito was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina to Syrian immigrants.(Cold America)

Selected exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• 1976: Clovelly Lane Gallery (New York)
• 1978: Cayman Gallery (New York)
• 1979: Clovelly Lane Gallery (New York)
• 1982: Museo de Artes Plásticas Eduardo Sívori (Buenos Aires)
• 1983: Arch Gallery (New York)
• 1985: Arch Gallery (New York)
• 1987: Museo de Arte Moderno (Buenos Aires)
• 1995: Una investigación constructivo en los '90, Centro Cultural Borges (Buenos Aires)
• 1983: Galerie Slotine (Paris)
• 1983: Juan Melé, hoy. 60 años después, Salas Nacionales de Exposición, Palais de Glace (Buenos Aires)
• 2006: Galería Van Eyck (Buenos Aires)
• 2009: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Latinoamericano La Plata (Buenos Aires)

Group exhibitions

• 1953: São Paulo Art Biennial / II Bienal Internacional de Arte de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil)
• 1989–90: Art in Latin America. The Modern Era, 1820– 1980, The Hayward Gallery (London); Nationalmuseum / Moderna Museet (Stockholm); Palacio de Velázquez (Madrid)
• 1990: Argentina. Arte Concreto Invención 1945, Grupo Madí 1946, Rachel Adler Gallery (New York)
• 1991: Arte Concreto Invención, Grupo Madí, Naus für konstruktive und konkrete Kunst (Zurich)
• 1992–93: Artistas latinoamericanos del sigle XX, Estación Plaza de Armas (Seville); Musée national d'art moderne, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou (Paris); Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle (Cologne); The Museum of Modern Art (New York)
• 1994–95: Art from Argentina 1920– 1994, Museum of Modern Art (Oxford)[Traveling exhibition]
• 1997: I Bienal de Artes Visuais do Mercosur (Porto Alegre)
• 2001: Abstract Art from Rio de la Plata, Buenos Aires and Montevideo, 1933– 1953, The Americas Society (New York)
• 2002: Madí, L'art sud-américain, Musée de Grenoble (Grenoble)
• 2003–04: Arte abstracto argentino, Galleria d'arte moderna e contemporanea (Bergamo); Fundación Proa (Buenos Aires)
• 2006: The Sites of Latin American Abstraction. Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (Miami, Florida) [Traveling exhibition]
• 2007: Geometry of Hope. Latin American Abstract Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection. Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas Austin (Austin, Texas); Grey Art Gallery, New York University (New York)
• 2009: Expansionismo. Contemporary Latin American Artists Explore Space, The Museum of Geometric and MADI Art (Dallas, Texas)
• 2010: Géométrie hors limites. Art contemporain latino-américain dans la collection Jean et Colette Cherqui, Maison de l'Amérique (Paris)
• 2010: Constructive spirit. Abstract art in South and North America, 1920's-50s, Newark Museum (Newark);Amon Carter Museum (Fort Worth, Texas)
• 2010: Vibración. Moderne Kunst aus Lateinamerika. The Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection Bundeskunsthalle (Bonn, Germany)

Selected works

• Curves and Straight Series at the Museum of Modern Art (1948)
• Chromatic Rhythms III at the Museum of Modern Art (1949)

Further reading

• Ades, Dawn; Brett, Guy; Catlin, Stanton L.; O'Neill, Rosemary (1989). Art in Latin America: The Modern Era, 1820-1980. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-04556-7. OCLC 20019495.
• Suárez, Osbel (exhibition concept and guest curator); García, María Amalia; Agnew, Michael (translations) (2011). Witschey, Erica; Fundación Juan March (eds.). América fría. La abstracción geométrica en Latinoamerica (1934–1973) (Exhibition catalog) (in Spanish). Madrid: Fundación Juan March. ISBN 978-8-470-75586-6. OCLC 810113820. Wikidata ()

External links

• Alfredo Hlito at the Museum of Modern Art
  • Alfredo Hlito (artist file) at Museum of Modern Art

Category:1923 births Category:1993 deaths Category:Argentine artists Category:Concrete art