The competition that showed the soul of Latin American painting

In a time of artistic searches, the Codex brought together 27 artists at the National Museum of Fine Arts. Among them, Josefina Robirosa, Eduardo Mac Entyre and Tosmoshige Kusuno.
In November 1968, the Codex prize for Latin American painting was inaugurated at the National Museum of Fine Arts. The prize, which was open to the public until November 17, was, according to what El Litoral published on November 12 of that year, a “representative sample of the pictorial art of eight countries of this continent.”
The jury of the Codex prize, which was held that year for the first time, was made up of Héctor Basaldúa, Córdova Iturburu, Miguel Ocampo, Samuel Paz, Samuel Oliver, Ernesto Rodriguez and Monsignor Ernesto Segura, under the presidency of Professor Julio Payró.
The Codex prize for Latin American painting was awarded to Argentines Josefina Robirosa and Eduardo Mac Entyre; the Codex prize ex aequo to Francisco Salazar and Gabriel Morera, from Venezuela; the Arte Rama prize to the artists mentioned above.
In turn, the Decoralia prize went to the already awarded Robirosa and Mac Entyre; the Georama prize to Nelson Ramos, from Uruguay; the Femirama prize to Felipe Ehrenberg, from Mexico; the El Mundo de los Museos prize to Tosmoshige Kusuno, from Brazil and the Pinacoteca de los Genios prize to Hasting, from Peru.
“A total of 27 Latin American artists are represented in this important competition, which has attracted the interest of the public and critics throughout the country,” said El Litoral.
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