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.
In 1974 the CAYC began focusing a great deal of its attention on this project, promoting a variety of initiatives in a contemporary circuit of new cultural spaces and centers that were emerging in Europe at the time. A number of exhibitions of Latin American and Argentinean art visited several European cities, presenting an overview of the region’s recent works. Following the presentation of the exhibition Arte de Sistemas en Latinoamérica, in April–June, in Belgium, Antwerp, and Brussels [see GT-356 (doc. no. 1476508), GT-378 (doc. no. 1476528), GT-402 (doc. no. 1476537), GT-403 (doc. no. 1476538)], this newsletter announces the opening of a new exhibition at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste (University of Fine Arts of Hamburg). As proposed by Dietrich Helms—the artist, professor, agent, and promoter of contemporary art—the CAYC was invited to show its works to a wider audience in Germany.
The exhibitions presented in 1974 established artistic practices that were dear to the center’s heart; the works shown in the article might be from the exhibition Hacia un perfil del arte latinoamericano.
