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Ricardo Roque Carpani

Ricardo Roque Carpani (1930 - 1997) was active/lived in Argentina, France.  Ricardo Carpani is known for Painting.

Born in Tigre, a northern suburb of Buenos Aires, he moved with his family to the city proper in 1936, and there Carpani finished his secondary school studies. He then started to study law, but soon abandoned it, and at the age of 20 he traveled to Paris, France, where he became first a model for artists and then an artist himself.

He returned to Buenos Aires in 1952 and studied a year with master Emilio Pettorutti. His first art exhibition took place in 1957. Together with other artists, he founded the Espartaco movement.*

Carpani was sympathetic with social causes, and his paintings are focused on topics such as the unemployed, working people and the poor, as well as nationalistic themes. His paintings are strong, solid and clear-cut, often portraying determined men; this line of work is reflected in his illustrations of Argentina's national epic gauchesque poem, Martín Fierro.

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Facts about Ricardo Roque Carpani

   Ricardo Roque Carpani  Born:  1930 - Tigre, Argentina
Died:   1997 - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Known for:  Painting
Name variants:  Ricardo Carpani

Biography from ConsultingInArt AB & Konstfeber

Born in Tigre, a northern suburb of Buenos Aires, he moved with his family to the city proper in 1936, and there Carpani finished his secondary school studies. He then started to study law, but soon abandoned it, and at the age of 20 he traveled to Paris, France, where he became first a model for artists and then an artist himself.

He returned to Buenos Aires in 1952 and studied a year with master Emilio Pettorutti. His first art exhibition took place in 1957. Together with other artists, he founded the Espartaco movement.*

Carpani was sympathetic with social causes, and his paintings are focused on topics such as the unemployed, working people and the poor, as well as nationalistic themes. His paintings are strong, solid and clear-cut, often portraying determined men; this line of work is reflected in his illustrations of Argentina's national epic gauchesque poem, Martín Fierro.

In the 1970s Carpani, like many other Argentine artists, writers and intellectuals during the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional, exiled himself and settled in Madrid, Spain, and then toured Europe, the United States, Cuba, Mexico and Ecuador.

Along with others in the Argentine Commission in Defense of Human Rights, he denounced the crimes of the dictatorship for the outside world to know.

A year after the restoration of democracy in Argentina, in 1984, Carpani returned to his home country, and he produced a series of portraits (such as those of Julio Cortázar and Roberto Arlt). He also started a series of works focused on classic Buenos Aires urban topics (such as tango, cafés and the barrios), with tropical backgrounds.

Not long before his death, Carpani drew a large portrait of Che Guevara , which is now shown at the Plaza de la Cooperación in Rosario, a few blocks away from Guevara's birthplace.

Ricardo Carpani died in Buenos Aires in 1997.

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