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Villa Ballester Art Painters
In the vicinity of the city that was addressing to become a cosmopolitan one, the plain that astonished the conquerors and embodied the illusions of those who from the very far from came to work, resisted to the end of the XIX century the overwhelming urban advance.
To the Buenos Aires northwest, on fields that has belonged to Don Pedro Ballester, and where today are found inside the limits of the San Martín district, emerged at the end of the 1880 an urban space of 140 quarters, with their streets, parks and reserved sites to buildings of public interest and community.
They used to be lands crossed by history, toured by horses that alternating spears and ploughs dominated the plains and turned them into fertile plains. José Hernández was born there, and in the Perdriel setting a criolla consignment confronted the English invader. Pueyrredón, and also Rosas, left their mark in works that are remembered. Later arrived the moment of the fences and the rails, and in 1895 the Argentinean Main Railroad inaugurated there a train station that was named Villa Ballester.
The first residents where those who started looking for spaces wider than the ones that the metropolitan area could offered them, Capital city of that eager Argentina that looked up the world from the glory of the Centenary.
Middle class families were the first ones who settled down, meanwhile others from the upper class chose those lands for their country homes and summer residences. Close to the dawn of the XX Century, important groups of German immigrants settled down, who contributed with their customs, founded and opened schools and cultural and sport institutions.
Alejandro Witcomb, founder of the Gallery that used to be with his name for a long time, and Rosendo Martínez, who was partner of Witcomb, they settled down in Villa Ballester, and later maybe influenced by them arrived painters like Ceferino Carnacini, born in la Boca, Carlos Pablo Ripamonte, and the Asturian Juan Peláez. They built their houses, opened their workshops and once they established in Villa Ballester transformed this town of Buenos Aires in a pole of attraction to many of their colleagues in the Art, desired of leaving that cosmopolitan hustle and changed them, at least temporarily, to tranquillity and up to that rural landscape offered it.
At that time it was still possible to see, outside the urban helmet, the sluggishness movement of a cart drawn by oxes, or stopping to rest under the shadow of a generous ombu. In the distance, the sun could still reflect on the waters.
These renowned masters who passed through the Argentinean History Art have left invaluable treasures. That is why today Estudio Garrido Abogados dedicates with pride, a tribute in this monthly meeting at the Porteñas Gallery Night, exhibiting paints from its Paideia Collection, and is also pleased to announce that has convoked to the Carnacini Casa Museum, subsidiary of the City Hall of General San Martín, so that from Villa Ballester can be contributed experiences of those who have the foundational purpose of keeping alive the memory of these three extraordinary, outstanding and unique figures of the national art.
To the Buenos Aires northwest, on fields that has belonged to Don Pedro Ballester, and where today are found inside the limits of the San Martín district, emerged at the end of the 1880 an urban space of 140 quarters, with their streets, parks and reserved sites to buildings of public interest and community.
They used to be lands crossed by history, toured by horses that alternating spears and ploughs dominated the plains and turned them into fertile plains. José Hernández was born there, and in the Perdriel setting a criolla consignment confronted the English invader. Pueyrredón, and also Rosas, left their mark in works that are remembered. Later arrived the moment of the fences and the rails, and in 1895 the Argentinean Main Railroad inaugurated there a train station that was named Villa Ballester.
The first residents where those who started looking for spaces wider than the ones that the metropolitan area could offered them, Capital city of that eager Argentina that looked up the world from the glory of the Centenary.
Middle class families were the first ones who settled down, meanwhile others from the upper class chose those lands for their country homes and summer residences. Close to the dawn of the XX Century, important groups of German immigrants settled down, who contributed with their customs, founded and opened schools and cultural and sport institutions.
Alejandro Witcomb, founder of the Gallery that used to be with his name for a long time, and Rosendo Martínez, who was partner of Witcomb, they settled down in Villa Ballester, and later maybe influenced by them arrived painters like Ceferino Carnacini, born in la Boca, Carlos Pablo Ripamonte, and the Asturian Juan Peláez. They built their houses, opened their workshops and once they established in Villa Ballester transformed this town of Buenos Aires in a pole of attraction to many of their colleagues in the Art, desired of leaving that cosmopolitan hustle and changed them, at least temporarily, to tranquillity and up to that rural landscape offered it.
At that time it was still possible to see, outside the urban helmet, the sluggishness movement of a cart drawn by oxes, or stopping to rest under the shadow of a generous ombu. In the distance, the sun could still reflect on the waters.
These renowned masters who passed through the Argentinean History Art have left invaluable treasures. That is why today Estudio Garrido Abogados dedicates with pride, a tribute in this monthly meeting at the Porteñas Gallery Night, exhibiting paints from its Paideia Collection, and is also pleased to announce that has convoked to the Carnacini Casa Museum, subsidiary of the City Hall of General San Martín, so that from Villa Ballester can be contributed experiences of those who have the foundational purpose of keeping alive the memory of these three extraordinary, outstanding and unique figures of the national art.
Adrián Gualdoni Basualdo
September 2011
