Feliciano Centurión was born in San Ignacio de las Misiones, Paraguay, on the 20th of March, 1962. By 1970, the family would settle in Alberdi, Ñeembucu, located opposite Formosa, Argentina. The successive floods in Alberdi left a mark in the artist’s childhood.
In 1973, eleven year-old Feliciano and his family embarked on an exile trip to Argentina during the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner. By 1974, the Centurion family was already settled in the city of Formosa, where he finished his secondary education while pursuing studies at the School of Fine Arts Oscar A. Albertazzi. Later, he would settle in Buenos Aires, where he obtained a teaching degree at the National School of Fine Arts Prilidiano Pueyrredón. Subsequently, he studied at the Superior School of Fine Arts Ernesto de la Cárcova. He participated in numerous individual and collective exhibitions both in Asunción, Paraguay and in Buenos Aires, Argentina, creating a link between Paraguayan and Argentine artists. In the 1990s, his work earned several art awards.
He was part of a group of artists linked to the Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center Gallery (dependent on the University of Buenos Aires), a space in which he presented individual exhibitions.
He participated in the Fifth Biennial of Cuba, personally exhibited his work at the House of Latin America in France. He died in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on November 7th, 1996.
Free translation from a document written in Spanish. February 4, 2020.
L. Chaparro & M. Galeano, translators. Asuncion, Paraguay.
