León Ferrari

León Ferrari (1920–2013) was an Argentine artist who is regarded as one of the most important Latin American artists of the second half of the twentieth century. His work blends art with politics, drawing with sculpture, and concept with form. He began his career pursuing parallel interests in art and engineering, an influence visible in the structural emphasis of much of his work, and first exhibited ceramic sculptures in the 1950s. Over the following decades his experiments expanded to film, drawings, found objects, heliographs and hanging sculptures in materials ranging from wire to bones. A fascination with language runs throughout his career, notably in his written drawings that take their departure from script. His work is held by the Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou. He received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2007 Venice Biennale, and in 2009 MoMA paired him with Mira Schendel in "Tangled Alphabets."