Ana Sacerdote

Ana Sacerdote came to Buenos Aires with her family in 1940. She graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredón in 1946 and studied drawing with Lino Enea Spilimbergo. In the mid-1950s she belonged to the Arte Nuevo circle around Aldo Pellegrini, with Carmelo Arden Quin, Gregorio Vardánega and Luis Tomasello, and her first abstract oil, Estudio de equilibrio, dates from 1955. In 1956 she received a French government grant for painting.

In 1959, in Cuba, Sacerdote made the abstract film Essai de couleur animée, painting and filming each frame with a 16 mm Bolex and a filming system she designed and built. It was shown at the animation festival of the 1965 São Paulo Bienal, and in 1972 she wrote about color animation for film in the journal Leonardo. She began making drawings with a computer in the 1970s and studied computing from 1974. Leonardo published her “A Study in the Variation of Types of Computer Drawings Obtainable by Small Program Changes” in its Winter 1979 issue. Galería Lagard in Buenos Aires showed her work from April 16 to May 5, 1979. In 1989 she published Notas para una programación creativa con graficador editor.