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 an important role in this process. The exhibitions shone a light on these exchanges, in which overviews of trends or individual artists provided an introduction to the innovations of international contemporary art and made Argentine and Latin American artists better known on the global scene.
1972 was a pivotal year in the CAYC’s international campaign to promote systems art as a trend associated with the center. After participating in the Encuentro Internacional de Arte de Pamplona in June that year, the center expanded its cultural exchange network to include other European cities. This exhibition allowed the CAYC to present its latest activities at an international level, positioning the center as the driving force behind the exposure and promotion of Latin American experimental movements.
This newsletter lists the films that were included in the screenings organized by the Galerie Paramedia in West Germany. The gallery hosted artists and exhibitions that showed what were referred to as “nt” (new trends), in some cases collaborating with the DAAD program (German Academic Exchange Service).
On this occasion the exhibition consisted of film screenings that documented some of the exhibitions presented by the CAYC and the center’s art collective, known as the Grupo de los Trece. The program also included three films that had been shown at recent exhibitions at the center in Buenos Aires: Casa o mierda (1969), a documentary by Carlos Flores and Guillermo Cahn that addressed the housing problem in Chile; Un paso (1971) by Endre Tót (Hungary); and Un proceso, un happening by Andrzej Matuszewski (Poland).
