Benjamín Solari Parravicini
{{short description|Argentine artist and psychic}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Benjamín Solari Parravicini
| image = Solari Parravicini.jpg
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1898|08|08}}
| birth_place = Buenos Aires, Argentina
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1974|12|13|1898|08|08}}
| death_place = Buenos Aires, Argentina
| restingplace = Cementerio de La Recoleta, Buenos Aires
| known_for = Prophetic drawings
| other_names =
| occupation = Artist
| parents = Dolores Parravicini Noriega
Benjamín Tomás Solari
}}
Benjamín Solari Parravicini (August 8, 1898 – December 13, 1974) was an Argentine visual artist, known for his supposed psychic abilities to forecast future events. Among his claimed predictions were the launch of Sputnik 2, the advent of television, the development of artificial insemination, the September 11th terrorist attacks, the 1956 Suez Crisis, the Cuban Revolution and the rise of Fidel Castro, and many other historical events.{{google books|AYDusiukgN8C|Dibujos Proféticos I}}
Biography
Benjamín Solari Parravicini was born on August 8, 1898, in Buenos Aires, to Benjamín Tomás Solari and Dolores Parravicini Noriera, was the oldest of eight siblings and was nicknamed Pelón (literally "hairless") due to his baldness.[https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/suplementos/radar/9-221-2002-06-09.html Recuerdos del Futuro] – Article written on the newspaper "Pagina12" on June 9, 2002 (in Spanish).
He dedicated his life to painting and had a pretty successful career; in 1927, during an art exhibition in Buenos Aires, Parravicini was congratulated by then President of Argentina, Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, who was present in the display. Later on, he got an award at an international art display that took place in the capital city and was invited to exhibit some of his drawings in Liège, Belgium, where he won a gold medal and even impressed King Albert I, who bought one of his works.
He was also an art professor at the Spanish lyceum of Buenos Aires; and the city municipality appointed Parravicini as both manager of the Arts Department and director of the exhibition gallery, roles which he fulfilled for several years.[https://web.archive.org/web/20100627215147/http://boards2.melodysoft.com/sergio0/-nostradamus-es-argentino--535.html ¿Nostradamus es argentino? (in Spanish)]
=Artistic works (exhibitions)=
- 1927 – Exposición comunal (communal exposition).
- 1929 – Amigos del Arte (friends of art).
- 1935 – Camuati
- 1947 – Asociación para la Promoción de las Artes (association for the promotion of arts).
Paranormal abilities
Through his childhood, Parravicini claimed to have contact with fairies, angels, and duendes (a mythological creature similar to a goblin) and was allegedly able to find lost objects and even lost people with ease. This behavior worried his father (a psychiatrist), who had his son undertake several medical tests to prove if he had an illness of some sort, to negative results.{{clarify|date=November 2022}} Sometime later, the young Parravicini started talking about a "war that would go off in 14", which became the first of his several premonitions as World War I would begin that year.[http://www.ellitoral.com/index.php/diarios/2007/11/14/opinion/OPIN-03.html Benjamín Solari Parravicini y "La idea fija"] – Artícle written on the newspaper "El Litoral" on November 14, 2007 (in Spanish).[https://web.archive.org/web/20110825081835/http://edant.clarin.com/diario/2005/05/05/conexiones/t-970120.htm Hace 67 años, el Nostradamus argentino vaticinó que una lluvia de meteoritos caería hoy] – Article written on the newspaper "Clarín", on May 5, 2005 (in Spanish).
Between 1936 and 1972, Parravicini made more than a thousand "prophetic" drawings, which he described as "psychographies". His supporters credit him with having accurately predicted various major world events, including the arrival of television,[https://scontent.faep8-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16681583_1879650312318555_8412328499709785088_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&_nc_ohc=04wJtlyQhqwAQnQ1uBLInj6xvHEmgweYrU2itfy0dcfY0qYMe-kud2Npw&_nc_ht=scontent.faep8-1.fna&oh=f72818d2646caedb0ebf7642ffefe516&oe=5EAE929E "Domestic vision! Through small screen, external happenings will be seen at own home"] – 1938 drawing, original in Spanish. satellite communication,[https://solariparravicini.swred.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/bsp-0218.jpg "It comes! A new communication system in the world by artificial planets"] – (1938) in vitro fertilization,[https://scontent.faep8-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/12644699_940831126006947_7395403952685302504_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&_nc_ohc=TKckVNRyS-0AQlTv_lmSxgMoi7Uqz5Q4gz0Dj0uukrBpKgS_lGqIQ6SgA&_nc_ht=scontent.faep8-1.fna&oh=41fe7ddfab7026ff8048ae02b7834e29&oe=5E9C030B "Artificial motherhood! Cultivated!"] – (1938)[https://scontent.faep8-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/12573937_940831132673613_1221664344652796300_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&_nc_ohc=7o3OF47RXLEAQkWlHtxh_19e4OKesO29vThInbYwdPRsVJNva4Mh8iMXA&_nc_ht=scontent.faep8-1.fna&oh=ebeb1b6a2a53e470f43e4d5aecdac7d8&oe=5E9DEDCE "The origin will be detracted. Man will cultivate without contact."] – (1938) that the first being in space would be a dog,[https://scontent.faep8-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/23316296_1488489264574461_8161224147130064837_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&_nc_ohc=wL3dO511yf4AQlqpk8tV-EFxNC4l6BJeC9Zi9w49mE55BvldxBJ7wfPbw&_nc_ht=scontent.faep8-1.fna&oh=909c76f563a11bd1fb217ef87bf069f6&oe=5EAAB1CC "The dog will be the first flyer."] – (No date) and the September 11 attacks; the latter gained the artist worldwide attention in the aftermath of the attacks, with the image of the "prophecy" (from 1939) depicting two sketches of the Statue of Liberty, one with buildings going down on the background and a message that stated the following:[https://solariparravicini.swred.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/bsp-0121b.jpg Statue of Liberty], solariparravicini.swred.com – (1939)
{{Blockquote
|text=The freedom of North America will lose its light. Its torch won't illuminate like yesterday, and the monument will be attacked two times.
}}
Parravicini claimed several times that, at first, due to his Catholic beliefs, he destroyed the drawings because they did not make sense to him, and that, while making the drawings, he felt that his hand was being guided by an external entity (which he said was his guardian angel, José Fray de Aragón) and that he heard a voice during the whole process.
Alien abduction
According to one of his closest friends, ufologist Fabio Zerpa, Parravicini told him he was abducted by two whitish-eyed beings (similar in appearance to what would be later known as nordic aliens), who approached him while he was sitting in a sidewalk bank of the 9 de Julio avenue, in downtown Buenos Aires. A huge light then transported the three to a circle-shaped room, with luminous panels and a central tube in which the entities moved. One of them approached the artist and told him telepathically in Spanish, his native language: "You have to preach love. Universe is harmony. Your behavior is aggressive. We have several chosen ones. We will meet again". Parravicini was back on the same sidewalk bank he was abducted at three hours later, at 18:40 p.m.{{google books|Pz0rAwAAQBAJ|Indio, amor de nueva era}}
References
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- Merlino, Adrián “Diccionario de Artistas Plásticos de la Argentina”.—Buenos Aires, 1954. p. 347.
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