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A Pictorial Dragon, the Work of Fernando Birri: A Bilingual Online Exhibit

This digital exhibition, fully accessible in both English and Spanish, celebrates the centennial of Fernando Birri (1925–2017), the pioneering Argentine filmmaker, artist and theorist of the New Latin American Cinema. Featuring drawings, paintings, collages and writings from his personal archive he gifted to Brown University Library in 2008, this selection reveals how Birri used art as a form of reflection and reinvention — responding to exile, identity, as well as the cultural and political urgencies of his time. The exhibition offers new insight into Birri’s expansive artistic practice and his enduring commitment to experimentation and transformation.
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