Feliciano Centurión

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Feliciano Centurión

Birth name	Feliciano Centurión
Born	March 20th 1962 San Ignacio Misiones, Paraguay
Died	November 7th 1996 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nationality	Paraguayan
Field	Painting
Works	“Cielito Argentino” (“Little Argentinean Sky”) “La mirada” (“The Look”)

1 Childhood and youth
2 His first steps
3 Career
4 Outstanding awards
5 His last years
6 Works
7 References
8 External links

[edit] Childhood and youth

Was born March 20th 1962 at San Ignacio de las Misiones, Paraguay. Took his elementary studies at Paraguay, his high school studies at the Formosa province (Argentina), and his college studies at Buenos Aires, Argentina.

[edit] His first steps

He studied diverse branches of the plastic arts at the “Oscar R. Albertozzi” School of Fine Arts in Formosa, at the “Pridiliano Pueyrredón” School of Fine Arts and at the “Ernesto de la Cárcova” Superior School of Fine Arts. The last two were located in Buenos Aires.

Obtained the degrees of National Professor and Superior Professor of Painting.

The Argentinean curator Jorge Gumier Maier talks about the artistic development of Feliciano Centurión: “Looking from every possible point of view, either formal and thematic, the foundational moment in his work is the replacement of the traditional support -fabric- for the blanket. The interaction between the stamp or the pattern of these and the images that in a very graphic mode were painted over them singularized his work. In a first phase, the alone or serious animals, domestic or strange (just like his octopus) directed to a really fantastic world, kind and heaven-like. Usually the blankets were of double size. Blankets that were reduced to smaller, more intimate sizes identify the next period. The images become more abstract and poetic. Now were flowers or stars, or flower-stars. Ñandutí carpets or macramé often replaced the paintings. In his third (and last) phase the same blankets give their place to handkerchiefs, pillows and pieces of bed sheets, on which he used to embroider phrases that were used as affirmations”.

[edit] Career

Year	Individual expositions
1987	“Arte Sanos” Gallery. Asuncion.
1990	“Frazadas” (Blankets). “Fábrica” Gallery. Asuncion. Paraguay.
1991	“Al natural” (Naturally). “Little Gallery”. Asuncion. Paraguay.
1992	“Pinturas” (Paintings). “Ricardo Rojas” Cultural Center. Buenos Aires. Argentina. Honor Merit. Docent Formation Institute. Universidad Iberoamericana. Asuncion. Paraguay.
1993	“Las galerías” (The Galleries). “Manzana de la Rivera”. Asuncion. Paraguay.
1996	“Muestra retrospectiva” (Restrospective Show). Visual Arts Center and “Correa de Freiburg” Road Gallery. Germany.

Año	Important Expositions
1985	“El puerto” (The Harbor). Exposition Room of Aerolíneas Argentinas. Formosa province. Argentina.
1986	“Grupo Sapucai” (Sapucai Group). The Cárcova Plastic Arts National Fund. Cultural Center. Buenos Aires. Argentina.
1988	Paraguayan Museum of Contemporary Art. Asuncion. Paraguay. “MARGS”. Art Museum of Rio Grande do Sul. Porto Alegre. Brazil.
1990	“Gráficos-Seri-Gráficos” (Graphics-Seri-Graphics). “Little Gallery”. Asuncion. Paraguay. Recoleta Cultural Center. Buenos Aires. Argentina. The “Martel Painting” Awards. Visual Arts Center. Asuncion. Paraguay.
1991	“Cinco Artistas Paraguayos” (Five Paraguayan Artists). Centoira Gallery. Buenos Aires. Argentina.
1992	“Voces emergentes” (Emergent Voices). Criticism Workdays. Buenos Aires. Argentina. “New World Foundation”. National Museum of Fine Arts. Buenos Aires. Argentina. Martel Second Biennial of Painting. Visual Arts Center. Asuncion. Paraguay.
1993	Patricios Bank Foundation. Buenos Aires. “Archipiélagos” (Archipelagoes). Contemporary Arts Museum. Porto Alegre. Brazil. The Younger Artists of Ruth Benzacar. Ruth Benzacar Gallery. Buenos Aires. Argentina.
1994	“Tres Artistas Paraguayos” (Three Paraguayan Artists). Latin Gallery. Montevideo. Uruguay.
1995	Exposition from the Insitute of Iberian-american Cooperation. Buenos Aires. Argentina.
1996	The Plastic Arts in Formosa. Homage to Feliciano Centurión. Crisólogo Larralde Foundation. Formosa province. Argentina. “Frío/Caliente” (Cold/Hot). Borges Cultural Center. Buenos Aires. Argentina.
1997	“Objetos - 8 artistas del Mercosur” (Objects - 8 artists from the Mercosur). Itinerant show by every country of the Mercosur. Exposition Room of the OEA. Buenos Aires. Argentina.

[edit] Outstanding awards

Year	Outstanding activity
1989	Award from the Manliba Foundation. Buenos Aires. Argentina.
1990	Third place at the Martel Biennial of Painting. Visual Arts Center. Asuncion. Paraguay.
1992	Award from New World Foundation. National Museum of Fine Arts. Buenos Aires. Argentina.