The Estate of Elda Cerrato joins Hales

Hales is delighted to announce representation of the Estate of Italian-born Argentine artist Elda Cerrato (b. 1931 Asti, Italy - d. 2023 Buenos Aires, Argentina). Her solo exhibition will open at Hales New York in 2024. Her extensive oeuvre integrated fundamental connections between art, spirituality, scientific knowledge and politics. Through immersions into the unconscious, drawing on personal and collective memory, she connected the cosmos to alternative concepts of the real. In symbolic and political work Cerrato sensitively explored the transformative potential of art.

 

Cerrato received recognition for her contributions to art, including the esteemed Premio Nacional a la Trayectoria Artística (National Award for Artistic Career) in Buenos Aires in 2019. In 2021, an anthological exhibition titled El día maravilloso de los pueblo (Wonderful Peoples Day) was showcased at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires. In recognition of her contributions to the arts, she was awarded the prestigious Premio Velázquez de Artes Plásticas (Velázquez Prize for Plastic Arts) in 2022 by the Ministerio de Cultura de España.

Cerrato's artworks are part of important institutional collections worldwide, including the Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Argentina; Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Venezuela; Museo Tamayo, Mexico; and the Art Museum of the Americas, Washington; among others.