Museo Moderno
Di Benedetto Noemí
Rojo, 1964. 115 x 85 cm. Colección Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires.

Noemí Di Benedetto
San Andrés de Giles (Argentina) 1930 – Buenos Aires (Argentina) 2010.

He was born in San Andrés de Giles, province of Buenos Aires, in 1930. His academic education in art was carried out at the Manuel Belgrano National School of Fine Arts and the Prilidiano Pueyrredón National School of Fine Arts. Although his first works began in geometric abstraction, he soon turned towards informalism. In 1959, he participated in the 1st Paris Youth Biennial and, in 1960, he participated in the First International Exhibition of Modern Art, at the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires. A year later, he managed to exhibit individually at the Peuser and Lirolay Gallery; he participates in the Ver y Estimar Award, at the National Museum of Fine Arts; and be part of the Contemporary Argentine Art exhibition, at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro. In 1962, among other exhibitions, she was invited to participate in the exhibition Man Before Man, organized by the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires. The materials of her informalist works are composed of fabrics, wood, burlap, waste cardboard and other materials, intervened from tears, blows or burns. In 1963, she was awarded a scholarship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She died in Buenos Aires in 2010.