Museo Moderno
Messil Gabriel
Untitled, 1980, acrylic on canvas, 120x120

Born in Buenos Aires in 1934. He was a National Professor of Drawing and Painting and graduated from the Prilidiano Pueyrredón Higher School. He held several individual exhibitions, including: MEEBA Gallery, in 1961; Arthea Gallery in 1964; Kalá Gallery, in 1965; Argentine Center for the Freedom of Culture, in 1965, Galería El Taller (sculptures) in 1967, Galeria Bonino in 1967, Art Gallery International (serigraphs) in 1974. He also participated in group exhibitions such as the first Argentine Cultural Exchange exhibition – Brazilian made in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba, Porto Alegre and Bahia, in 1961; “Macchi, Messil, Agüero”, at the Los Independientes Theater, in Buenos Aires, 1963; In 1967 he participated in “Beyond Geometry” at the Torcuato Di Tella Institute, in “Elemental Vision” at the National Museum of Fine Arts and in “Primary Structures II”, at the Sociedad Hebraica, an exhibition that was curated by Jorge Glusberg, in 1968. He also participated in the exhibition “Beyond Geometry”, at the Center for Inter-American Relations, in New York and “Comparaisons” at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris in 1969. He obtained the “Premio of Honor in Seeing and Estimating” in 1966 and the “Braque Prize” in 1967, both awarded by the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires. The Museum of Modern Art of Asunción, Paraguay, the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, among others, have his work. He dies in 1986.