Luis Felipe "Yuyo" Noé has passed away
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It is with sadness that we learn, via his Foundation, that Luis Felipe Noé, father of Gaspar Noé, known in Argentina for his works in painting, passed away on Wednesday April 9 at the age of 91.
Alongside Jorge de la Vega, Romulo Macció and Ernesto Deira, Luis Felipe Noé was one of the founders of a painting movement in Argentina: Nueva Figuraccion. His work earned him a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1965, and he moved with his family to New York before returning to Argentina, only to flee under threat from the military junta.
A few years after giving him his first camera, he accepted the role of the killer in his son's graduation film, Tintarella di Luna... Afterwards, he was credited as an “ethical advisor” in Carne and thanked in Seul contre tous. As for his paintings, they appear several times in Irréversible, Enter the Void and Love.
Luis Felipe Noé continued his artistic work until the end of his life: in 2024, he published a book, Asumir el Caos en la vida y en el arte - chaos being the artist's trademark.
On the occasion of the Noé 3D exhibition, Gaspar Noé had also paid tribute to his father, and his words best capture the love he felt for him:
“I still remember when I was a child, you used to advise Paula and me to choose artistic careers, not because they were nobler vocations, but because they would make us happier. You must have thought that by expressing our inner world, we'd somehow be free. And you were right... You always say that chaos is the natural order of things. And that in this chaos, each of us begins to draw a line from day one. Every life is like a drawing, a drawing on which lines are thrown, lines connect, colors connect, all sorts of audacities are tried, mistakes are made, some are erased, others arrive and after a while in this chaos a great visual is created... Some lives become small paintings. Others become large ones. Some have color, others are landscapes bursting with color. Of your work, which I've been immersed in since childhood, what I've always preferred are your larger paintings with fluorescent colors. And of all your paintings, the one I've always admired most is your life.”
Our most sincere condolences