Born in Alberti, Province of Buenos Aires, Raúl Lozza was a painter, draftsman, designer and
theoretician. A key member of the Concrete art movement in Argentina, Raúl Lozza co-founded,
in 1945, “Asociación Arte Concreto-Invención” (Invention – Concret Art Association). Soon after, in
1947, he left the group to create his own movement: Perceptismo (Percepticism). Consisting of
but four people, two of whom were Lozza’s brothers, the group shared the Association ́s point of
view but expanded it beyond the confined limits of the canvas and stretcher. Its members
advocated the complete rejection of the frame and the idea of a painting as a window. Instead,
they favored what Lozza called “walls of color,” conceived as actual walls painted in monochrome
colors, upon which cut out forms floated in relief.
Lozza’s investigations on color and form gave rise to his Teoría Estructural del Color [Structural
Theory on Color], which was later made into a book. He elaborated a scientific method that would
allow him to create a system based art, something original and innovative to our history of art.
He took part in numerous group and individual exhibitions in the country, in the National Museum
of Fine Arts and the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, in the Provincial Museums of Santa
Fe, Tucumán, Rosario, Salta and Jujuy; at the San Telmo and Banco Patricios Foundations, at the
National Fund for the Arts and at the Ibero-American Cooperation Institute. Abroad he exhibited
at the São Paulo Biennial, in museums in Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Ecuador, Uruguay, Spain, England,
Switzerland, USA, Germany and France and in the Rachel Adler and Apex Art galleries in New York.
He obtained among other distinctions, the Gold Medal of the Chamber of Deputies in 1971, in
1986 the Lifetime Achievement Award granted by the Argentine Association of Art Critics, the
Palanza Award in 1991, the Platinum Konex Award, the Grand Prize of Honor of the Fortabat
Foundation in 1997 and 1998 he was distinguished with the Leonardo Award for Lifetime
Achievement at the National Museum of Fine Arts.
His works are part of numerous private collections, such as the National Museum of Fine Arts, the
Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, the Eduardo Sívori Museum, the Santa Fe Provincial
Museum of Fine Arts, the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Batuz Foundation Sachsen
in Altzella, Germany. During 1997 a large retrospective exhibition was held at the Museum of
Modern Art in Buenos Aires and he was invited to participate in the First Biennial of MERCOSUR.
In 1998 he exhibited at the Van Eyck Gallery and in 1999 the National Endowment for the Arts
appointed him to participate in the official representation of Argentina at the ARCO Madrid
International Galleries Art Fair.