Elio Barbieri

Elio (Pipo) Barbieri was born in 1922 in Florence, Italy. He is a painter, sculptor, and designer who moved to Argentina on September 7, 1954. He had solo exhibitions at the Hache and Witcomb galleries in 1965 and 1992. Barbieri participated in the First Exhibition of Non-Figurative Art at the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires in 1960, as well as the Mar del Plata Salon in 1958 and the New Art Salon at the Van Riel Gallery the same year, along with other group exhibitions. His artistic work is categorized within figurative abstraction. He participated in the Salones de Arte Nuevo and continued to express himself in the style of Informalism, creating his works using irregular materials in relief. As a member of the constructive architecture movement, he also produced several Informalist pieces (María Laura San Martín, Pintura Argentina Contemporánea, Editorial La Mandrágora, Buenos Aires 1961; Arte Argentino Actual by Salvador Presta, Editorial Lacio, 1960; Enciclopedia del Arte en América by Vicente Gesualdo, Editorial Omeba, Buenos Aires 1968).