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[ All images ©Rómulo Macció ]
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Bold design work from the 1950s by noted Argentine avant-garde artist Rómulo Macció (1931–). These vivid minimalist pieces are for an advertising agency and a newspaper. All images from Gebrauchsgraphik No. 2, 1960.
Rómulo Macció is an Argentine painter associated with the local avant-garde art movement that took shape in the 1960s. Born in 1931 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A completely self-taught artist, Rómulo Macció entered the world of visual arts as a graphic designer at the young age of fourteen. As a result, an inclination toward strong, graphic effects has remained with the artist throughout his career. He mounted his first solo exhibition of lyrical, abstract painting in Buenos Aires at Galeria Gatea in 1956. From 1958 to 1960, Macció formed part of the Group Boa—consisting of artists Martha Peluffo, Clorindo Testa, Osvaldo Borda, Kasuya Sakai, Rogelio Polesello, and Victor Chab—which explored various dimensions of psychic automatism. In 1959, Macció won the prestigious Argentinean De Ridder Prize for painting and he was awarded the International Di Tella Prize in 1962. A fundamental turning point in Macció’s development as a draftsman occurred in 1961 with the formation of “Otra Figuracion,” an avant-garde group that included Luis Felipe Noé, Jorge de la Vega, and Ernesto Deira. Dedicated to the eradication of artificial beauty in art, which Macció referred to as the aesthetic of “rosa bombon” (pink chocolate aesthetic). Throughout the 1970s, Macció painted figural distortions influenced by Francis Bacon and French New Realism. Despite his propensity toward painting, the frequent heavy use of line and strong graphic gestures that characterize this body of pictorial work underscores its formal and conceptual kinship with drawing. –Wikipedia
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Sandi Vincent grew up in the bay area of California surrounded by mid-century modern architecture and other influences responsible for her affinity for the period and its pop style, including her early exposure to The Monkees, The Avengers and Gerald McBoing-Boing. Sandi now resides in Portland and is a board member of a local nonprofit preservation group, the Mid-Century Modern League. In her day job at a community foundation, she sports the web/social media/print materials coordinator title.
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Thank you for sharing, this is always such a cool place to visit!
absolutely beautyful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Macció is a miracle…
Thank you Laura always! I love your site.
And I completely agree, Guillermo. :~) Thanks for stopping by!
What a great discovery — especially that first image! So much to drool over on your site…
Thanks for the kind feedback, Maralina! :~)
Interesting. I know the artist’s painted work pretty well, and this is a fascinating adjunct. Do you know anything else about his career as a designer???