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.
After the exhibition Arte y Cibernética, presented at the CAYC in 1969, which included works by artists from the Japanese group CTG (Computer Technique Group), the center kept in touch with a number of Japanese artists working in different fields. After presenting the work of two printmakers in 1971—Tsuyoshi Yayanagi and Kosuke Kimura (GT-73 [doc. no. 1476304], GT-77 [doc. no. 1476306] and GT-78 [doc. no. 1476275])—the CAYC organized another exhibition of works by two Japanese artists that introduced Argentinean viewers to contemporary Asian design and painting, which differed considerably from the Japanese culture’s traditional and/or ancestral canons. Works by Reiko Ohata (b. 1941) and Tetsuro Sawada (1933–1998) were shown at the CAYC in Buenos Aires in late October 1973 (GT-298 [doc. no. 1476444]). This same show was then presented in March–April 1974 at the Centro Cultural Platense in La Plata, the capital city of the Province of Buenos Aires.
Tetsuro Sawada was known for the abstract oil paintings he painted during the 1960s, at a time when he was also traveling in South America. In 1973 he started producing lithographs and later, silkscreen prints.
