Jorge Frasca

By LatAm ARTE

Jorge Frasca is an Argentine painter born in Buenos Aires in 1945, best known for his evocative landscape paintings that focus on air, light, and silence. He is self-taught and has a highly individual style, observing natural scenes closely and translating them into expressive canvases. His works often depict rural and vernacular architecture—old stores, fences, paths, and buildings that intersect with wide skies and horizon lines. Frasca has travelled extensively, painting scenes in places like northern Africa, Morocco, Mali, the white villages of southern Spain, and towns in northern Italy. Since 1980 he has held many solo and group exhibitions in Argentina and abroad. His work is held in both private and public collections across countries including Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Australia, and the United States. Frasca does not allow his works to participate in contests or awards, preferring the work to exist independently of such competitions. He is often called “the painter of air and light” and is considered a reference in Argentine realist landscape painting.