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.
Members of the recently created “Grupo de los Trece” showed their work at Fotografía Tridimensional (1972). These artists, who had all been associated with the center since it was founded but had not yet come together as a group at this point, presented their work alongside a number of guest artists. The exhibition sought to outdo its predecessors in the experimental poetics of photography, which the CAYC understood as a “process,” a “system” unto itself. The article explains that, as seen from this radical perspective, photography does not consist of capturing a moment in time but is a “complex, sensitive, ideological” structure that conveys knowledge and mediates relationships between man and reality. The center had very recently hosted an exhibition about experimental photography in Poland [see GT-100 (doc. no. 1476356) and GT-101 (doc. no. 1476357)].
