The only issue of Arturo to be published (1944) was 40 pages long and printed in a humble 250 copies. Yet, according to Alexander Alberro it “is nothing short of a milestone in the history of art in the Río de la Plata.” (Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern.)

This is how María Amalia García describes the cover art by Tomás Maldonado (1922 – 2018): “Its white linear strokes, expressive and interrupted, respond in part to the technical characteristics of a linoleum cut. Erratic paths, like rivers feeding into one another, serve as a metaphor for the publication’s routes and connections” (Edición facsimilar de la revista Arturo : Ensayos Y Traducciones.).

Together with examples I have seen of Joaquín Torres-Garcia’s Universal Constructivism, the artwork inspired my linocut for the first issue of Refilstigr.

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