Javiel Raúl Cabrera

Raúl Javiel Cabrera

The most complete exhibition of Cabrera's work at the MNAV, held 28 November, 2019 and 9 February, 2020. Together with the publication of this book, both events are a tribute in recognition of the artist on the centenary of his birth. Better known for the anecdotes that adorn a life of bohemia and seclusion than for the virtues of an exceptional pictorial work, the figure of Javiel Raúl Cabrera (Montevideo, 1919 - Santa Lucía, 1992) oscillates between the extremes of oblivion and legend. One hundred years after his birth, a rereading of his work and a settling of accounts with his legacy -which exceeds the merely pictorial- are imposed, to give him definitive entrance, and through the front door, to the main art gallery from the country. The emergence of the young artist within the so-called generation of 45', his first Montevideo exhibitions, the friendship with the poet José...