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Artwork by Argentinean painter Manuel Cancel is featured on IICA’s virtual gallery “Art, Education and Agriculture”

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The gallery, which is available on IICA’s website, features paintings that depict different realities of rural areas in the Americas.

Manuel Cancel

San Jose, 24 August 2020 (IICA) – Paintings by Manuel Cancel, which depict the magnitude, splendor and wealth of the vast rural plains of Argentina on which he grew up, now form part of the virtual gallery “Art, Education and Agriculture” (agroycultura.iica.int), of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA).

Without a doubt, Cancel is an artist who lives in harmony with nature. Through his artwork, he portrays the beauty and diversity of American countries, which produce food to nourish millions of people around the world.

“We strive to ensure that the artists involved in ‘Art, Education and Agriculture’ portray the reality of rural areas in the Americas, whose dwellers lead very different lives compared to people in urban centers, but who also play a fundamental role in forging our identities, culture and traditions”, explained Manuel Otero, Director General of IICA.

Cancel’s paintings will be featured on the Institute’s website alongside the artwork of Gaby Grobocopatel. Moving forward, IICA will seek to organize more permanent and temporary exhibitions, as well as educational activities that foster artistic forms of expression related to rural areas in the hemisphere.

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Institutional Communication Division

comunicacion.institucional@iica.int

 

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