Roiger, Jorge

Jorge Roiger was born in Buenos Aires in 1934. He studied Photography with Pedro Otero and Vision with Héctor Cartier. In the late 1950s, he experimented with photography to create non-figurative images. He soon became associated with the Argentine Informalist Group, which, in parallel, explored abstraction through material accumulation. In late 1959, he participated with the informalists in an exhibition at the Sívori Museum, sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art. Although he exhibited photography, his relationship with plastic arts led him to delve into texture and pigment work. At this exhibition, his works caught the attention of Georges Mathieu, who was visiting Buenos Aires, and this is reflected in three articles he published in "Ring des Arts" in 1960, later republished in his books "Au-delà du Tachisme" in 1963 and "De la revolt a la renaissance" in 1973 by Gallimard.

In 1960, he learned new techniques alongside Antonio Seguí, with whom he later collaborated on the exhibition "La metamórfosis de Felicitas Naón" at Galería Lirolay in 1962. Roiger then participated with Luis Wells, Kenneth Kemble, Silvia Torrás, among others, in the exhibition "Arte Destructivo" in 1961, marked by an anti-rationalist spirit. The use of automatism and the distortion of images through drippings, additions, and aggressions were shared by Roiger from photography, who incorporated color into his works. In 1978, his works were included in the Informalist retrospective presented at the Sívori Museum.

Starting in 1978, to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the Informalist Group, Jorge Roiger held numerous exhibitions in different galleries in Buenos Aires and throughout the country. In 2007, he exhibited at the Centro Cultual Recoleta. In 2009, he exhibited at the 'Encontré Art Gallery', and in 2010, he showed his work at the 'Arte y parte' gallery. Since 2011 to the present day, he has established his studio in the 'Central Park' building in the Barracas neighborhood, which opens its doors to the public every year. This new chapter in Jorge Roiger's career presents a series of photographs of stains that the artist finds in various places he visits with his camera. The images are intervened with acrylic to complete the work. He also adds to his production the creation of works on canvas with acrylic.