Biography

Franco-Argentinian painter and sculptor

Julio Silva was born on January 16, 1930 in Concordia in Argentina.

Painter and sculptor, Julio Silva moved to Paris, France, in 1955. He collected African and Tribal Art objects.

He obtained French nationality in 1967.

Julio Silva primarily with marble for his sculptures (white Carrare marble, pink Portuguese marble, yellow Siena marble) and traveled frequently between Paris and Carrara since 1972.

He created monumental works, including:

Génie du charbon, Carrare marble (1972): Paris, Sagéco

Carbon marble coal engineering (1973): Courrières, high school

A set of 8 sculptures (Alice au pays du marbre, Chenille, La Chouette, Colombe, Flamat, Fleur parlante et Oiseau mouillé, Igor, Le Messager): residence la Perralière, Villeurbanne

Damoizelle Oiseau et Leçon d’envol (1976): Ris-Orangis

Orubourus (1976): Saint Cyr l’École, technical high school

Dame Lune (1977): Puteaux, La Défense

Pyegemalion et Cavalle (1979): Paris Forum des Halles

Flamme d’eau (1980): lognes, station

Envolée (polyester birds) (1989): Paris 18ème arrondissement, nursery school.

Numerous exhibitions were devoted to Julio Silva’s work from 1959 to 2010. Julio Silva also contributed to several books:

Silvalande, drawings by Julio Silva and text by Julio Cortazar, Le Dernier terrain vague, Paris, 1977

Hashish in Marseille, text by Walter Benjamin, drawings by Julio Silva, Fata Morgana edition, Saint-Clément-de-Rivière, 2013.

Paris, capital of the 19th century, text by Walter Benjamin, drawings by Julio Silva, Fata Morgana edition, Saint-Clément-de-Rivière, 2016.

Julio Silva died at 90 on April 4, 2020 in Clamart (Hauts-de-Seine).