Raquel Partnoy 

                              Spanish and English version     

"Blindfolded"   oil on canvas

"Con los ojos vendados"   óleo s/tela

RAQUEL PARTNOY

Influenciada por su descendencia ruso/judío y su lugar de nacimiento, Argentina, Raquel Partnoy señala los temas de discriminación, represión e injusticia como fuentes de inspiración en sus obras. Viviendo en Argentina en los 1970s, cuando tuvo lugar un golpe de estado  y subsequentemente miles de personas fueron capturadas, torturadas y asesinadas por un gobierno militar, ella comenzó a incluir la figura humana en sus pinturas para expresar sus propias vivencias durante esa época. Actualmente Partnoy vive en  los Estados Unidos, donde exhibe sus series de pinturas regularmente en galerías de arte, museos y otras instituciones.

RAQUEL PARTNOY

Influenced by her Jewish-Russian heritage and Argentinian birthplace, Raquel Partnoy points to discrimination, repression, and injustice as sources of inspiration in her works. Living in Argentina in the 1970s,when a military coup took place and subsequently thousands of people were captured, tortured and killed by a military government, she began including human figures in her paintings to express her own experiences during that time. Currently Partnoy lives in the United States where she has been shown her paintings at art galleries, museums and other venues.

“The range of Partnoy’s sense of life and of the art which reflects it includes uniquely Jewish, uniquely Argentine and broad human experience, filtered. as every major artist’s work is, through her personalized vision and the individualized details of her own life.”

Ori Z. Soltes
Dir. B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum 
Washington, D.C.

   "Fragments"    oil on canvas

   "Fragmentos"  óleo s/tela