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.
During the 1970s, Glusberg forged a network of contacts in South American and international institutions that were involved in experimental practices, sharing programs among them to encourage the production and exhibition of Conceptual works in a contemporary circuit that connected new spaces and cultural centers, one of which was the Studio Agora. The Studio was founded in Maastricht, Holland, in 1972, by the artists Theo van der Aa (1945–2015) and Ger van Dijck (b. 1939), to present exhibitions, publish artists’ books, and provide a meeting place for an international network of artists in the fields of performance art, video art, and mail art. The goal of the studio’s programs and the projects it promoted were in tune with the CAYC’s ideas, both in terms of their experimental nature and in their focus on creating opportunities for circulation and exchange. This newsletter announces a group exhibition of works by artists associated with the Agora Studio that had been presented a year earlier in the space where the CAYC presented Hacia un perfil del arte latinoamericano (see GT-474 [doc. no. 1476915]).
