| Blood of a traditional
family of silversmiths highly recognized in the world is
today a representative figure with own style and character
whose personal seal is recognized by people that decided
to enrich its collections with his pieces or invite him
to participate of works that already are part of the Argentinean
cultural patrimony and also patrimony of the world.
He had the privilege to learn his art with teachers of
the size of Raquel Forner, Carlos Trotta, Marta Minujin
among others, besides participating in diverse activities
in the National School of Fine Arts. But without doubt the
chisel in his hands since his very first childhood and his
natural curiosity by the secrets of this art carried him
to whom he became today.
During its step by the family workshop, among others works,
at the age of 16 of age carried out along with its father
the cane of command that utilized the President Raúl
Ricardo Alfonsín and participated in the restoration
of the Custody utilized in 1934 in the framework of the
visit of the Pope Pious XII to Argentina carried out because
of the Eucharistic Congress of 1984.
Since 1994 he works in his own workshop in the neighbourhood
of San Telmo initiating a new phase in its successful career
where he manage to consolidate its style and its personal
seal in its vast work.
Entrusted by the Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1997 he
carried out the mural commemorative to them who were killed
at the Holocaust and at the attacks to the Embassy of Israel
and to the AMIA in Argentina. The work is exhibited in the
Metropolitan Cathedral of Buenos Aires. This mural was reproduced
in 1998 in a postal seal launched officially by the Argentine
Mail. In the year 2004 carried out a second commemorative
mural with identical characteristics that is exhibited in
the church Vaternunser, Berlin, Germany since that moment.
Restorations, pieces of ornamentation for important Religious
Images, Custodies and Chalices have been entrusted to him
by several institutions, faithful and religious authorities
considering the special sensibility that characterizes him.
Also he took part in several works for the cultural and
historical environment, for example restored an ink bottle
that belong to Mrs Eva Perón that is placed in the
Legislature of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, were
used to be the office of Mrs Perón, and nowadays
carries her name. Besides, by assignment of the former President
Carlos Saúl Menem made a ‘pectoral’ for
the Pope Juan Pablo II that the President delivered personally.
Besides, in occasion of his trip to Argentina, attendant
especially by an British Financial Institution as a gift
in its name, he created a ‘facón’ in
leather braided by hand and silver, decorated with indigenous
motives, for His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, Carlos
of England.
As testimony of his Faith and with the desire to carry
to the highest hands of this land a desire of Peace and
Love in its Pontificated in June 22, 2005 delivered to his
Holiness the Pope Benedict XVI a Chalice and Paten that
were made with silver cuts that conserved of the making
of the High Altar of the Cathedral
of Buenos Aires and a decorated book with the
symbol of the Holy Father containing the desires of thousands
of faithful Argentines.
Recently the world of the sport has called him to carry
out the Commemorative Framework that the Association of
Argentine Soccer delivered to the FIFA because of its centennial
and a gift delivered to Franz Beckenbauer in occasion if
his visit to Argentina as a President of the Organizing
Commission of the FIFA World Cup that took place in Germany,
June 2006.
In a constant interest to discover new expressions he directed
his look to the future generating a new concept: clothing
in silver. These works have integrated various parades of
High Fashion of the most important Argentine designers.
It shows in this way that, the art, the vanguard and the
romanticism can be combined in an exquisite way. A present
expression with eternal style.
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