Inés Blumencweig

(Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1930 - )

Argentinian

Born in Buenos Aires on June 16, 1930, Inès Blumencweig bears the family name of her Polish father, Leonardo Blumencweig, who arrived in Argentina at about fifteen years old. Inès’ mother, Alberta, was also of Eastern European descent. Alberta’s family, the Peltzmans, were a Jewish family that settled in Argentina at the beginning of the 20th century, around the same time as the creation of the Jewish Colonization Association.
In 1943, Inès Blumencweig enrolled at the Fernando Fader School of Decorative Arts in Buenos Aires. Inspired by the Bauhaus, the school offered courses in crafts and design. Her early works were heavily inspired by Surrealism. Blumencweig married Mario Pucciarelli in 1960. That same year, a solo exhibition devoted to the artist was presented at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires. Between 1960 and 1961, works by Blumencweig were included in the travelling exhibition Pintura Argentina contemporánea, which presented Argentinian artists in contemporary art museums in Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires.
In 1960, her husband was nominated for a Guggenheim Fellowship, which allowed the couple to travel to New York and Washington, D.C., where they discovered the Abstract Expressionistmovement. They moved to Rome in 1961, where they made a living as artists, and also throughBlumencweig’s work as a journalist writing for art magazines. Both artists shared a studio in the heart of Rome and were active in several artistic movements of the day, including Spatialism, Arte Povera, and Art Programmata. They lived in France from 1981 through 1987, when they returned to Rome.
Blumencweig has exhibited her artwork in museums and galleries in South America, France,and Rome. Her work is in the collection of the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art; Calasetta Museum of Contemporary Art (Calasetta, Italy); Museum of Modern Art in Montevideo, Uruguay; and Fonds d’art contemporain in Paris, France.

Rome, Italy

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