Osvaldo romberg biography

Osvaldo Romberg was born and raised in Argentina, lived and worked in New York, Philadelphia, Tel-Aviv, and Ilha Grande (Brazil).
Osvaldo Romberg (born 1938), who has been working with color theory and meaning since the early 1970s, occupies a privileged position on this list.
Romberg studied architecture at the University of Buenos Aires between 1956 and 1962.

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Color Studies: From Analysis to Metaphor, 1970-2015
Gonzalo Aguilar
2015

In 1935, Alfred Barr arrived in New York with Kazimir Malevich’s Suprematist Composition: White on White (1918). The shipment of the small painting from the Russian revolutionary period to Germany and then to the United States was a landmark moment in avant-garde art. Susan Buck-Morss, in her book Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West, argued that, in that journey, White on White lost its mystical power and became a prototype of the “pure” and “true” art that inspired many American artists. But this, a debatable proposition in relation to American art, is undoubtedly incompatible with Latin American art. The concrete artists of Latin America who discovered Malevich in the French magazine Art de aujourd’hui in the 1950s, established a Malevichian thread, which reverberates through Latin American art, reaching Helio Oiticica, as well as Mirtha Dermisache and Horacio Zabala, to mention only a few. Osvaldo Romberg (born 1938), who has been working with color theory and meani

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Osvlado Romberg. Color Studies: From Analysis to Metaphor, 1970-2015

In 1935, Alfred Barr arrived in New York with Kazimir Malevich’s Suprematist Composition: White on White (1918). The shipment of the small painting from the Russian revolutionary period to Germany and then to the United States was a landmark moment in avant-garde art. Susan Buck-Morss, in her book Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West, argued that, in that journey, White on White lost its mystical power and became a prototype of the “pure” and “true” art that inspired many American artists. But this, a debatable proposition in relation to American art, is undoubtedly incompatible with Latin American art. The concrete artists of Latin America who discovered Malevich in the French magazine Art de aujourd’hui in the 1950s, established a Malevichian thread, which reverberates through Latin American art, reaching HelioOiticica, as well as Mirtha Dermisache and Horacio Zabala, to mention only a few. Osvaldo Romberg (born 1938)

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Selected Works

Osvaldo Romberg (Born in 1938, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Lives and Works in New York, Philadelphia, Tel-Aviv and Ilha Grande (Brazil)

Romberg studied architecture at the University of Buenos Aires between 1956 and 1962. He subsequently taught art at the Universities of Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Puerto Rico and Tucuman until 1973, when he emigrated to Israel, teaching at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design for 20 years. In 1993, he began teaching at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. His paintings, books, installations, films, and architectural watercolors have been exhibited internationally.

Over the past five decades and on five continents, Romberg has produced a consistently goading body of work that tackles questions of analysis, interpretation and representation of art and art history.

In the early 1970s, as a painter and conceptual artist, he began using a grid to analyze the tone and saturation of various colors. Romberg’s deconstruction of both individual hues and those of famous historical paintings investigate the polit