Luis Felipe Noé (Buenos Aires, 1933). He studied painting with Horacio Butler then was self-taught. He worked as a journalist and art critic for the newspaper El Mundo. He lived in Paris and New York. In 1959 he held his first solo exhibition. Between 1961 and 1965 integrated with Ernesto Deira, Rómulo Maccio Jorge de la Vega and the New Figuration group or another configuration. The group was invited to the Guggenheim (1964) International Award and the historic area of ​​São Paulo Biennial (1985). He has made more than forty solo exhibitions in America and Europe. In 1995 and 1996 he made two retrospectives at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires and the National Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City. He has received, among other awards, the Guggenheim and the Grand Prize of Honor of the National Endowment for the Arts grant. He published unsightly (van Riel, 1965; De la Flor, 1971), Recontra-power (De la Flor, 1974), A East by the West (Two Graphs, Bogotá, 1992); The other, the other and otherness (Impsat, 1994).