- Raquel Partnoy
Raquel Partnoy (b.1932 in
Rosario ,Argentina ) is a painter, poet, and essayist. She studied at an art school in that city but it was after she got married and moved to the southern port city ofBahía Blanca in1954, that she attended for several years the Buenos Aires’s workshop of the influential Argentine painter and teacherDemetrio Urruchúa . [http://www.urruchua.com.ar/index.html]Partnoy’s first show was at
Van Riel Gallery in 1965, and she continued to paint and held exhibitions at diverse venues inBuenos Aires and other cities of her country until 1994 when she moved to the United States. She settled inWashington D.C. where she continued her artistic career. At the invitation of theEmbassy of Argentina in Washington D.C Partnoy exhibited her series “Women of the Tango” and “Tango: Inner Landscapes” in 1997 and 2003, where she portrayed stories found in tango lyrics such of those of young women who were discriminated against and mistreated by society. She has also had solo exhibits at theB'nai Brith Klutznick National Jewish Museum ,Goucher College , and Washington'sStudio Gallery . [http://wwol.is.asu.edu/partnoy.html]Through her series of paintings “Surviving Genocide,” which was shown at the
Martin Luther King, Jr. Library in 2003, Partnoy depicted her family experiences during the militarydictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983) when 30,000 personsdisappeared and were eventually killed by state terrorism. On January 12,1977, her daughterAlicia Partnoy was kidnaped by the Army and disappeared for three and a half months. During this time they kept her in theconcentration camp La Escuelita in Bahía Blanca. She was imprisoned for a total of three in other jails. Both Raquel Partnoy’s essay on “Surviving Genocide” and the images of her paintings on this subject, were published in , Kristin Ruggiero, ed. Sussex Academic Press, UK, 2005. [http://www.southendpress.org/2004/items/WWR]She is the illustrator of "The Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival," co-written by her daughter and Dominican American author
Julia Alvarez . [http://www.asu.edu/brp/dist/LASLCE/APart.html]
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