Quino

Joaquín Salvador Lavado, Quino (his artist name) was born on 17 July 1932 in Mendoza, Argentina. He has received numerous prizes and awards in his own country and throughout the Spanish-speaking world. In France, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters and was honoured with the insignia of Officer of the Legion of Honour. He is a complete artist: brilliant, sharp-witted and universal. Quino is a dissident, a revolutionary who expresses his dissent towards his country’s regime, but also towards the direction the world was taking from the 1950s onwards, through his drawings. He was forced into exile from Argentina in 1976.

His career began in 1954; Mafalda was created ten years later, and through her, Quino conveyed his vision of the world to us for almost 20 years. Mafalda, like many comic strips, adapts to its reader; it is a combination of light-heartedness and seriousness. Children see her as a clever little girl surrounded by her friends with stereotypical personalities; adults find in her a reflection of the state of the world that prompts more philosophical questions and reflections.

Closed the 1st May

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