DAILY STILL LIFE

Still life. 1960.


Oil on hardboard. Measurements: 30 x 40 cm. Signed in the painting “E. Daneri”. On the back, in graphite pencil “Still life. Eugenio Daneri - year 1960” and an entrance label in an exhibition in 1974. Framed work.

 

Santiago Eugenio Daneri (Buenos Aires, 1881 - 1970) is probably the most technically virtuous artist of the Escuela de la Boca; With a reduced palette he has managed to generate expressive climates in his paintings, both in the urban landscapes of La Boca, Barracas and Maciel Island as well as in dense domestic interiors. We read Roberto Amigo in the cataloging of the MNBA's work: “Working Housing presents the characteristic low saturation of his painting, traversed by earths and grays. The motif of a neighborhood sector was common in his work since the 1910s, but with the entry of popular sectors into politics, his work takes on a new dimension: they are landscapes without figures, and yet the dense materiality of the painting seems to signal his presence. That naturalistic charge distances him from the metaphysical work of other painters of the same urban landscapes, to affirm the imprint of the human”. (1) These characteristics enter into the plane of the intimate in still life: scenes of the interior of a home with its usual elements, in this case, a teapot, some fruit and a garden leaf on a wooden table. Daneri's still lifes preserve the baroque darkness of the Flemish, but the luxury of the past now shows the everyday life of popular families, and the delicacy of the old masters is replaced by thick and thick brushstrokes.

 

Daneri trained at the Academy of the Fine Arts Stimulus Society, being a disciple of Eduardo Sívori, Ángel Della Valle and Ernesto de la Cárcova. He was a professor of painting at the National School of Fine Arts "Prilidiano Pueyrredón" and of drawing at the National Council of Education. He held individual exhibitions in our country at the Salas del Retiro in 1920; at Moody's in 1937; in Kraft –known as "Friends of the Book"– in 1951 and participated in the international exhibitions in Paris in 1937 –where he obtained a diploma of honor– and in Viña del Mar, San Francisco and New York in 1939. He integrated the shipments to the First Madrid Biennial in 1951 and the XXVI Venice Biennale in 1952. Likewise, his work was part of the collective exhibition The seven Argentine artists of the Centennial generation, at the XXIII Provincial Hall of Plastic Arts of Santa Fe in 1946. In In 1961, the National Museum of Fine Arts organized a retrospective exhibition on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Works by him are part of the heritage of the National Museum of Fine Arts, the Municipal Museum of Plastic Arts “Eduardo Sívori” in Buenos Aires, the Museum “Juan B. Castagnino” in Rosario and in the provincial museums of La Plata, Santa Fe, Cordoba and La Rioja. Among other distinctions, he won the First Prize at the National Salon in 1941; the First Prize in the Municipal Autumn Exhibition of Plastic Arts and the Grand Prize in the XXXV Plastic Arts Exhibition for his work Loss of the son, both distinctions in 1945. In 1948 he was distinguished with the Palanza Prize.

 

Note:

1. https://www.bellasartes.gob.ar/coleccion/obra/8302/


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AUTHOR EUGENIO DANERI

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