Lidy Prati

[3] Her father, Olinto Prati, a native of Longiana, Italy, and her mother, Hilda Usinger, from the Cañada de Gómez province of Santa Fe, were married around 1916.

Her father had been a public accountant in Italy, though, in Argentina, he abandoned this profession and became a prominent textile industrialist, earning him the title, "The Cotton King" of Chaco.

In the 1930s, Prati and her sister Pierina began attending the religious boarding school, Nuestra Señora de la Misterordia, in Rosario.

Shortly after her enrollment, she began living with her uncle Francisco Prati in a luxurious apartment building where she came into contact with culture, art, and music.

[4] On 11 March in 1944, despite her parents' wishes, Prati married artist Tomás Maldonado with whom she had started taking art classes from two years prior.

In 1952, however, Prati and Maldonado separated and she traveled to Europe with her parents where she studied Renaissance paintings and met with several artists including George Vantongerloo, Max Bill, Giacomo Balla, and Piero Dorazio.

This publication was spearheaded by a group of artists, including Carmelo Arden Quin, Gyula Kosice, and Rhod Rothfuss, Maldonado, Edgar Bayley, Joaquín Torres García, Piet Mondrian, and Wassily Kandinsky.

[4] During this time she and Maldonado befriended the Swiss artist Max Bill, who was an early practitioner of European Concrete art.

[10] Much of Prati's work reflects the investigations of not just the AACI, but other concrete artists around the world including Max Bill and Georges Vanterlongoo.

[4] In 1970, Prati co-founded the magazine Artinf with the artists Germaine Derbecq, Silvia de Ambrosini, and Odile Baron Supervielle.

[11] Prati's work can be found in a number of public collections, including: Artwork Untitled, 1944 Concreto, 1945 Untitled, 1945 Composición Serial, 1948 Concret A4, 1948 Concrete No.2-B, 1948 Variaciones Sobre Distinto Fondo, 1949 Estructura Vibracional Desde un Círculo, Serie B, 1951 Vibración al Infinito, 1953 Homenaje a Max Bill o Guatemala, 1954-1955 1957 – "Pintores no-figurativos (elogio del pequeño formato)", Sociedad Hebraica, Buenos Aires, 1 to 19 August.

1991 – "Arte Concreto-Invención-Arte Madi, Argentinien 1945-1960", Haus für Konstruktive und Konkrete Kunst, Zürich, April to July.

1995 – "A cincuenta años de la Asociación Arte Concreto-Invención", Instituto Cultural Iberoamericano, Buenos Aires, July.

2001 – "Abstract Art from the Rio de la Plata, Buenos Aires, and Montevideo, 1933 – 1953", The Americas Society, New York, 11 September to 9 December.

Espinosa, Girola, Hlito, Iommi, Lozza, Maldonado, Mele, Prati", Galería Del Infinito, Buenos Aires, inauguración 20 April.