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. Several exhibitions of Latin American and Argentinean art traveled to a number of European cities, where they showed a selection of recent works.
It should be noted that the exhibition Arte de Sistemas en Latinoamérica established “systems art” as a movement that came to identify the CAYC, positioning the center as an institutional beacon in terms of the visibility and scope of Latin American Conceptual art. This newsletter functioned as a means of promotion for this exhibition on its European tour at the ICC in Antwerp: see GT-354 (doc. no. 1476507), GT- 356 (doc. no. 1476508), GT-378 (doc. no. 1476528), GT-381 (doc. no. 1476530), GT-403 (doc. no. 1476538), GT-430 (doc. no. 1476512); at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels: GT-380 (doc. no. 1476529), GT-390 (doc. no. 1476532), GT-391 (doc. no. 1476533), GT-402 (doc. no. 1476537); and at the ICA in London: GT-467 (doc. no. 1476909), GT-468 (doc. no. 1476910), GT-469 (doc. no. 1476911), GT-470 (doc. no. 1476912). It also included a review written by Roger D’Hondt and published in New Reform News, the monthly newsletter of the New Reform Art Center in Aalst, Belgium, which D’Hondt ran from 1970 to 1979.
