Ever since it was founded, the CAYC (Centro de Arte y Comunicación), helmed by the cultural promoter, artist, and businessman Jorge Glusberg, was intended as an interdisciplinary space where an experimental art movement could flourish. The establishment of collaborative networks connecting local and international artists and critics played a key role in this process. The exhibitions shone a light on these exchanges, in which overviews of trends or individual artists introduced the innovations of international contemporary art and made Argentine and Latin American artists better known on the global scene.
Among the strategies he developed to position the CAYC in the world scene, Glusberg sought to foster cultural exchanges with people in countries living under communist governments, including creators from Poland and Czechoslovakia. In this case, photographs taken in Mao’s People’s Republic were shown at the Center’s premises in Buenos Aires. The CAYC’s exhibition Del sinanthropus pekinensis al hombre nuevo de china popular consisted of a collection of documentary photographs that provide a look at life in China during the Cultural Revolution. These images unquestionably contribute revealing insights at the height of the Cold War when South America was under authoritarian governments. A time when photographs of such distant, non-Western subjects were hard to come by.
Ever since it was founded, the CAYC (Centro de Arte y Comunicación), helmed by the cultural promoter, artist, and businessman Jorge Glusberg, was intended as an interdisciplinary space where an experimental art movement could flourish. The establishment of collaborative networks connecting local and international artists and critics played a key role in this process. The exhibitions shone a light on these exchanges, in which overviews of trends or individual artists introduced the innovations of international contemporary art and made Argentine and Latin American artists better known on the global scene.
Among the strategies he developed to position the CAYC in the world scene, Glusberg sought to foster cultural exchanges with people in countries living under communist governments, including creators from Poland and Czechoslovakia. In this case, photographs taken in Mao’s People’s Republic were shown at the Center’s premises in Buenos Aires. The CAYC’s exhibition Del sinanthropus pekinensis al hombre nuevo de china popular consisted of a collection of documentary photographs that provide a look at life in China during the Cultural Revolution. These images unquestionably contribute revealing insights at the height of the Cold War when South America was under authoritarian governments. A time when photographs of such distant, non-Western subjects were hard to come by.
