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Augusta Stylianou Gallery 
Manuel Zorrilla de la Torre (born April 26, 1919, in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentinian painter, illustrator, engraver, drawer, and sculptor. His parents were Spanish immigrants.
From his childhood, he takes delight in painting the rural world which surrounds him. The fauna (horses) and the flora (fruit trees, flowers) are inexhaustible sources of inspiration. In 1942, he exposed for the first time together with other artists: critic noticed and greeted him as a young hope for the Fine Art. This year marked the beginning of exhibitions, greeted by the press, which remained continuous until 1980. From 1949 until 1953, he received numerous prices like the " Watercolorists and Engravers Society price ", the " National Show of Drawing and Engraving price", the " Fine Art Society of Santa Fe price", the " Fine Art Society of Rosario price" and the " Fine Art Society of Mar del Plata price". In 1954 he was elected vice-president of the Argentine Society of the Plastic Arts. Tireless traveler in Latin America and in Europe, he was interested in the landscapes and the human being in his environment. His work tells the life: in the harvests, to the factory, the "cariocas" from Rio de Janeiro (exposed at the Art museum of São Paulo in Brazil), Indians of the Argentine northwest, the tango in Buenos Aires, the forest in Venezuela but also Paris and the Seine, Rome and its monuments, Venice and Spain. The women is also a subject declined in plenty of "figures". His works of composition are numerous like: " The seat of Numance", " The ground universe and his populations” and the series " The sea " and “The Big River”. In 1982, he came to settle down in France, to Fontenay Fleury (Yvelines), among which the old village and its fields were sources of inspiration. He also began writing poetry and did several works where he often took back the subjects developed in his pictorial work. Early years Eminently self-taught, his academy is the life in all its appearances. Since 1935 he has worked with graphic and advertising studios. Quickly he turns towards The Argentine Plastic Artists Society and to The Circle of Fine Art, in Buenos Aires, to draw the nude. It is in the Zoo, in the Botanical garden, in Agricultural show and in the parks of Buenos Aires where he found his models to draw the nature. In the Circle of Fine Art the sculptor Arturo Dresco offered him his first clay to model. But the meeting with Alcides Gubellini, Italian painter and sculptor, tourned out to be determining. Advice on his drawings he lavished and later introduction into the oil painting, guided his first steps. He considers Gubellini as his true master. Exhibitions Manuel Zorrilla made a lot of individual exhibitions in Argentina on Wildenstein, Witcomb, Peuser, Müller, Perla Marino, El Nauta galleries ; in Brasil, on Ibeu Gallery, Fine Arts Museum of São Paulo ; in France, on Marcel Bernheim Gallery, Theâtre de Fontenay le Fleury. Prizes and awards Prizes
Awards In 1954, Manuel Zorrilla was named Vice President of Argentina Society of Plastics Arts. In 1974, Manuel Zorrilla received the Gold Medal of Llave Mohosa n°199 by the painter Esteban Semino. In October 5, 1974, he received the Gold Award of "Ateneo Popular de la Boca" given by the Conseiller Victor C. Pereira Technics developed Oil Painting on toile, wood and cartouline paper. Pastel, oil pastel, charbon, crayon. Drawing, china ink, colors ink, he developed a personal technic : acuarela ink. Fresco and ceramic painting. Lithography monochrome and color. Serigraphy. Terra cota Sculpture. * (Spanish) reference on the website arte argentino * (Spanish) Painting "Figura" from the Contemporany Art Museum of the National University of Litoral in Argentina * (Spanish) Radio interview from Radio municipal de Buenos Aires, September 1971
* Interview from RIO magazine, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, June 1952 Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License ==--==--==
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