Anotaciones para una semblanza de Juan Del Prete

Del Prete has not dwell on exclusive trends. He has not released a manifesto or built theories. He has also not lectured or participated in round tables. His uninterrupted and often deaf struggle in long years of work is witnessed in hundreds of paintings, sculptures and drawings and in a profuse documentation of catalogs, chronicles and photos of his samples and works. These notes only want to fix, without chronological order, situations, brief stories and comments on events that occurred a long time ago, collected by the author or told by Del Prete of the time when he was still unknown to the author. Referring only to his artistic work, perhaps they serve the best for an understanding of his work and of a period of painting in Argentina. "We worked this edition from the manuscripts of "Anotaciones para una semblanzaʺ (Annotations for a Semblance), written by Yente in 1978 on the life and work of Juan Del Prete. In specific areas of the text, footnotes were integrated from fragments from other texts written by Yente. We included in the end as an annex a letter that the author sent to art critic Ernesto B. Rodríguez in 1962." (HKB Translation) --Page 7]