Bronze by Raul Conti, The Healer with Owl
21.25" tall x 10" wide

Raul Conti
(Source: raulcontiartist.com) PLACE OF ORIGIN: Morteros, Córdoba (Argentina) 1930

INFLUENCES: Pre-Columbian Cultures, Alfredo Lazzari, Juan Grela, Leonidas Gambartes, Giorgio Morandi

EDUCATION: Workshop Juan Grela

EXHIBITIONS: Exhibited in museums, galleries and cultural venues in the United States, Sweden, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Italy, Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Spain, Puerto Rico. His work integrates public and private collections in America and Europe.

Raul Conti’s works, both paintings and sculptures speak volumes through symbols universal to man. Although he often employs Pre-Columbian elements, these works have a proto-historical perspective common to the whole race. Raul Conti was born in Morteros, Province of Cordoba in Argentina, on December in 1930 and became a USA citizen in 1997. Beginning in his adolescence, under the tutelage of Alfredo Lazzari and Juan Grela, Conti studied throughout Latin America and Europe. His interests have long been centered on the resolution of plastic compositions through the austerity of a palette based on earth tones. Later, he sought the luminosity of forms through the contrast of complementary colors using saturated dyes. He blends the saturated dyes with their complementary producing grays of colors that have evolved in his works. He is committed to the seemingly contradictory worlds of meaning and emotion, expressing basic impulses that appeal to a distant faculty.Raul Conti’s travels and many exhibitions through Latin America, allowed him to explore the symbolic subject matter of Pre-Columbian Art. As Hector Cartier pointed out “going beyond that, Conti perceives that modern art after centuries of illusionary visualization, has penetrated (allowing an opportunity for a more significant encounter with those vital roots) into the core of archaic imagery: Images generally born of an image- conjuring world impregnated by mythical and sacred impulses”.His life and work have been divided between his studios in Hell’s Kitchen (now Hudson Yards, NYC) since 1977, (where more than 100 works are available), and in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where more than 600 works can be viewed by appointment.

Good condition overall