Claudio Goldini, Latin American Artist Contemporay Art, Expressionism, Argentina.

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Claudio Goldini, Plastic Artist and Medicine Doctor lives in Buenos Aires. He works on paintings, drawings, lithographs and monotypes.
He made many exhibitions in Argentina like those in Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires (1996) Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires (1999,2005,2009), Casa de la Cultura de Moreno, Buenos Aires (2007), Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes "Juan Sánchez", Gral. Roca, Río Negro, Argentina (2009), Museo Marítimo, Ushuaia (2009), Villa Ocampo, Mar del Plata (2009) Goldini also made exhibitions in San Francisco, USA (1991), Pittsburgh, invited by the University and the Mendelson Gallery (1995), Orvieto, Italy (1998), Argentina House, Argentina Embassy, Roma, Italy (1998), La Habana, Cuba (1999, 2000), Rome, Italy (2000), International Accademy of Modern Art, Rome, Italy (2002), Temple Ball Gallery, North Carolina, USA (2004) Some of his works belong to private collections from Argentina, USA., Italy, Spain, England, and France, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Safar Research Institute, Pittsburgh, USA, Argentina House, Argentine Embassy, Roma, Italy, Museum of Fine Arts Manuel Belgrano de Moreno, Buenos Aires.
Goldini won several prizes. Among others, in 1998 he was given the 1st prize on the "First Contest of Painting in Argentina La Casella" from Italy. In 2002, he was finalist in the category "painting" of the International Awards of Culture Medusa Aurea organized by the International Accademy of Modern Art of Rome, Italy, prize Giacomo Manzu (5th. Prize). In 2002 he was awarded with the 3rd prize in the Sprint Painting Contest organized by the Margulies Foundation, Buenos Aires. He was member of jurors in some painting contests, lately in "Mujeres 2001" Programa de Exposición y Capacitación de las Artes, organized by the Banco Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2001-2003, was the organizer and member of juror of the First and Second Latin American and Caribbean Exhibition of Medical Painters in Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina, sponsored by the Secretary of Culture, Buenos Aires Government. In 2009 he was Member of the Juror, Salón de Pintura Para Médicos, Henry Moore Institute, Buenos Aires.
Raúl Santana, former Director of the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, wrote in 1995: "...Undoubtedly expressionist, his work renders visions that are the result of powerful subjectivity. It comments on some aspects of contemporary life, turning the human body into a landscape, adequate for expressing mysterious traces and emblems, which are rejected by the world of reason..."