Alfredo Londaibere (1955-2017) was a central member of the group of artists that created and developed around the Centro Cultural Rojas in Buenos Aires in the late 1980s and during the 1990s, led by Jorge Gumier Maier. Not only did Londaibere embody the insubmissive spirit of this influential artistic moment —which left a mark in the course of the history of Argentine contemporary art in the last few decades— but he also took on the role of director and curator of “el Rojas” between 1997 and 2002.

Londaibere met several of the artists who would later become his road companions in “el Rojas” as a participant in GAG (Gay Action Group), an advocacy gathering, at a time when sexual dissidence was harshly repressed. Londaibere was an introspective rebel, passionate about the history of painting and design, articulating his subjectivity as micro-politics through his stubborn faith in perception, intuition and enjoyment.

Emphasizing a vernacular point of view, he vindicated manual and artisanal craftsmanship, surreal pictorial traditions and esotericism in the face of what he perceived at the time (1990s) as the global hegemony of an approach to art where the rational and discursive were predominant, a situation that Londaibere and his friends considered as an imposition by the artistic centers of the first world to which they were not willing to submit.

In 2019 the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires dedicated a large retrospective exhibition to Alfredo Londaibere’s work. His works are in the collections of Museum Reina Sofia, Madrid; Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires; Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires; Blanton Museum, TX, among others.