Bio
Juan
José Cambre is recognized as being one of
most influential living artists in Argentina. In a career spanning
more than three decades, Cambre’s thoroughly innovative oeuvre has drawn upon painting traditions and genres, such as portraits and
still lives moving later to a distinctive style based on coloring
experimentations. As an architect, he began his career assisting to
Felipe Noe´s workshop in the seventies and started exhibiting his
paintings mainly in the 1980s. His work was a key element to read the
“return of painting” produced during that decade as his further
work is indispensable to understand the direction taken by painters
from then on. Throughout his career, Cambre has never deviated from
his personal vision based on formal and chromatic interests,
processed in a frame of mind that seems to be modelled not by
pictorial concerns but by a poetic horizon. This sensibility has
allowed him to fuse a contemporary conception of art with classical
and elegant execution.
Juan
José Cambre (b. 1948, Ramos Mejía, Argentina) stands as a living
milestone in Argentine artistic scene. Among
his most outstanding solo exhibitions are Mano de
obra, Colección
Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, 2017; Desde el
paisaje, Museo
Caraffa, Ciudad de Córdoba and Museo Castagnino-MACRO, Rosario,
2014; Cromática,
MACBA, 2013; Novum Ovum,Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2012. His
work was exhibited internationally in Milán, San José de Puerto
Rico, and New York. Cambre’s first major retrospective was held at
the Centro Cultural Recoleta in 2008, following the presentation of a
book about his artistic career to date. In 2016, he was included in
the selection of artists of the book Vitamin P3, by Phaidon.
