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.
The eagerness to create links between Latin American and Eastern European art was a key component in the CAYC’s somewhat politicized strategy for international exchange. The center advocated a “unity of strengths” among local art scenes in what were considered Third World countries that Glusberg saw as a form of art thatwas part of the world scene but still addressed the specific problems the countries had in common.
Polish, Hungarian, Rumanian, and Czech artists had shown their works at exhibitions organized by the CAYC ever since the center was founded. Glusberg frequently traveled in Eastern Europe, forging connections with art critics in Hungary (László Beke, Janusz Bogucki) and Poland (Jan Swidziński). (Katarzyna Cytlak, Revista de Estudios Globales y Arte Contemporáneo, 2018.) The center exhibited experimental works from countries that were, at the time, under socialist governments: Polish photographs (GT-100 [doc. no. 1476356] y GT-101 [doc. no. 1476357]); Argentinean works at the Narodni Galerie in Prague (GT-26 doc. no. 1476283]); prints from Czechoslovakia (GT-121 [doc. no. 1476407]), and computer art in Zagreb (in what is now Croatia, [GT-240 doc. no. 1476436]).
As a result of those efforts, the traveling exhibition Hacia un Perfil del Arte Latinoamericano was presented at the Wspókczsna Gallery in Warsaw, Poland, in September 1973 (GT-270-A [doc. no. 1476487]). Also, two exhibitions of Hungarian performance art were presented at the CAYC: Festival de la vanguardia húngara in November 1973 and Hungría 74 in November and December 1974. The list of participating artists in the first of these events was published in a previous newsletter (GT-289 [doc. no. 1476437]).
