Luis Felipe Noé Dies at 91

Luis Felipe Noé, the Artist Who Revolutionized Argentine Painting, Dies at 91
Buenos Aires – Renowned Argentine artist Luis Felipe Noé, a central figure in contemporary art in Latin America and two-time Guggenheim Fellow, died this Wednesday at the age of 91, according to official sources.

"What a painful loss for the country's visual arts. His transformative mark will remain forever in our history," said the National Secretary of Culture, Leonardo Cifelli.

Noé was born in 1933 in Buenos Aires, into a family that fostered his interest in the arts and literature: his father, Julio Noé, was a prominent intellectual in Buenos Aires' literary scene, publishing two anthologies of national poetry praised by Jorge Luis Borges.

Luis Felipe Noé began his career in the mid-20th century and, in 1961, together with Ernesto Deira, Rómulo Macció, and Jorge de la Vega, founded the collective known as Otra Figuración. This collective broke with the artistic traditions of the time by blurring the boundaries between abstraction and figuration. For this reason, the group was honored in the historical section of the São Paulo Biennial in 1985.

Throughout his extensive career, Noé held more than 35 solo exhibitions in cities such as Buenos Aires, New York, Rio de Janeiro, and Mexico City, and his work has garnered numerous awards, including scholarships from the French Government (1961) and the Guggenheim on two occasions (1965 and 1966).

In 2006, Noé was declared an Illustrious Citizen by the Buenos Aires City Legislature, and in 2017, he was awarded an honorable mention by Senator Domingo Faustino Sarmiento in the Senate of the Nation.

The artist, "whose work and thought profoundly transformed Argentine and Latin American art," according to a statement from the Luis Felipe Noé Foundation on Wednesday, represented Argentina at the Venice Biennale in 2009, thereby consolidating his prestige on the international art scene.

Married to Nora Murphy, he had two children: the renowned filmmaker Gaspar Noé and the artist Paula Noé-Murphy.

"We are grateful for his teachings and the opportunity to forge this shared path, and we reaffirm our commitment to his thought: we will continue to honor his memory in every action of our lives, because in doing we live and in doing we grow," the Luis Felipe Noé Foundation stated after his death.
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