Antonio Slepack

de Manuel Neves

For the second issue, historian and independent curator Manuel Neves explores the biographical context and the artistic production of Antonio Slepak (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1939-2016). Distanced from the academic artistic education processes, Slepak was no stranger to the avant-garde movements of his time, such as Informalism and Geometrical Abstraction. In Emblems of Reality, Neves reviews Antonio Slepakœs body of works, which is not only composed by formal syntheses and graphic experimentations, but also is constituted as a vehicle to develop a sociopolitical critique of Montevideoœs reality of that time.