José Gurvich, Crossing Borders

The Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires—MAMBA—presents until October 6, 2013 the exhibition entitled José Gurvich, Crossing Borders.

Sponsored by the Fundación José Gurvich, the exhibition is curated by Cristina Rossi and includes more than 90 works created by the Lithuanian-born artist.

José Gurvich, Crossing Borders, offers a look into several artistic processes. From early paintings—that belong to Gurvich's beginnings and initial "learning" process while at the studio of Joaquín Torres García—to his later works, created at different periods of his artistic career. José Gurvich studied under Torres García and became a central part of Constructivism.

According to Curator Cristina Rossi: "For José Gurvich the territorial borders were always a limitation that he was inclined to disregard, in the same manner that he would use his poetic to free his work from established norms. Although he was born in Lithuania, Gurvich always regarded himself as an Uruguayan artist. He actively participated in the kibbutz every time he visited Israel. During the last period of his life he tried to become part of the New York artistic scene. He conceived a visual universe that challenged any established, known or taught limits; as he himself declared in the phrase of the paragraph that guided the construction of the visual narrative of this exhibition."

Located in Montevideo, Uruguay, the Fundación José Gurvich has been promoting since 2001 the life and work of this artist.

In Gurvich's own words, "I have broken almost every rule I have been taught in order to find the infinite and free space."