Raúl Lozza
Raúl Lozza (Alberti, province of Buenos Aires, 1911). Painter and promoter of concrete painting. He exhibitted for the first time when he was 17 years old and in 1930 he moved to live in Buenos Aires. He started publishing theoric essays and texts of imagination, including a theatrical piece, put on stage in 1930.
Until 1936 he cooperated in newspapers and magazines with drawings and socially committed texts. From that year on, he engaged the revolutionary trends in art. That same year he presented, for advertising design, his paintings with irregular periphery.
He investigated on Physics and Mathematics. He took part of the editorial group of Adiáfora, in which he published illustrations, as well as for other publishers. He participated in the edition and direction of the newspaper Contrapunto. They are seven the publications in which he participated as an editor. In 1950 he was the creator and director of the Perceptismo magazine.
In 1945 he was one of the founders of the Asociación Arte Concreto Invención (Concrete Art Association), being its secretary and directing the magazine published by the group.
In 1947 the Asociación Arte Concreto Invención split. Lozza started his own investigations and experiences bound to fulfill the goals proposed: to eliminate all illusionary images and to go from the abstract to the concrete. He developped a new method that replaced dualistic composition with an autonomous structure, specific and committed with the environmental and human reality. He also presented a new theory on colour introducing the notion of "field" and created a "qualimetric scale" of the coloured plane form, where the sum of the parts is more than the whole.
Among the numerous distinctions he was granted we can mention: the Palanza Award, National Academy of Fine Arts (1991); the Great National Consecration Award(1992); the Prize of Honour granted by the Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat Foundation (1997) and the Leonardo Award, by the National Museum of Fine Arts (1998).
