Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This newsletter announces the opening of an exhibition of works by artists who had taken part in the Hasselblad Competition, “Arte y Fotografía en Latinoamérica” (Art and Photography in Latin America). The article lists the [...]

As part of the campaign to promote the exhibition Arte de sistemas II at the Plaza Roberto Arlt in Buenos Aires in September 1972, this newsletter published a work by the artist Adalberto Marzano. Conducting a sort of survey, Marzano asked what [...]

This newsletter (written in English) announces the opening of the Exposición internacional de proposiciones a realizar. Investigaciones poéticas, the event organized by Edgardo Antonio Vigo with assistance from Elena Pelli (Argentina) [...]

This newsletter comments on the survey that invited candidates to submit proposals for the Berlin Workshop for Experimental Art 1974. This event was conceived as a permanent exchange platform where artists and intellectuals could discuss a kind of [...]

This newsletter published a call for submissions to an exhibition called Contrainformación, organized by Miguel Ángel Otero, to be held at the CAYC. The article provides a list of possible themes, highlighting photography’s [...]

This newsletter published the rules for the Third British International Print Biennale, to be held from July to September 1972 in Bradford, Yorkshire, in the north of England. The newsletter included a copy of the call for entries in an attempt to [...]

This newsletter announces the competition that was jointly organized by the CAYC and the Aurora home appliance company. The goal of the initiative was to generate a selection of designs for interchangeable front panels for refrigerators that would [...]

This newsletter announces the opening of Ocupación topológica, an exhibition of works by Gastão de Magalhães, at the CAYC in Buenos Aires in February 1979. The article describes the works by the Brazilian visual artist as [...]

This newsletter (written in English) published a review of the exhibition Gráficos argentinos ’74 written by the journalist and art critic Harold Haydon from the Chicago Sun-Times. The event in the United States Midwestern city was [...]

As part of the campaign to promote Arte de Sistemas en Latinoamérica and its exhibitions in several European cities from April to December 1974, this newsletter (written in English) published a copy of a review of the exhibition at the ICC ( [...]

This newsletter (written in English) announces América Latina 76, the exhibition due to open on January 27, 1977, at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark. Jorge Glusberg organized this event with the help of the curator Hugo Arne Buch [...]

This newsletter announces the opening of an exhibition of works by contestants who were chosen to participate in the “Art and Photography in Latin America” Hasselblad Competition. The article names the selected photographers, the [...]

This newsletter (written in English) announces the screening of a selection of videos and films produced by Latin American artists, to be shown at the State University of New York’s media studies center in Buffalo. The event was jointly [...]

This newsletter (printed in English) includes a copy of a newspaper article written to advertise the schedule of the traveling exhibition Arte de Sistemas en Latinoamérica, organized by the CAYC, at the SÚM gallery in Reykjavik, the [...]

This newsletter announces the screening of a “didactic alternative” video at the CAYC in Buenos Aires. It was originally shown at MoMA in New York at the Open Circuits symposium. The video was subsequently shown at several of the [...]

This newsletter announces the opening of an exhibition of Czechoslovakian prints, Grabados checoslovacos de la Galería Nacional de Praga, at the Club Universitario in the Argentinean city of La Plata. The event was organized by the CAYC, which [...]

A work by the Colombian artist Jonier Marín is used to illustrate this newsletter as part of the campaign to promote the exhibition Arte de sistemas en latinoamérica. The event was organized by the CAYC at the ICC (Internationaal [...]

This newsletter (written in English) announces the Grupo de los Trece’s participation in the exhibition A Head Museum for the Eighties, organized by the Halvat Huvit gallery in Helsinki, Finland. The article includes a list of works and a [...]

This newsletter announces the Grupo de los Trece’s participation in the exhibition A Head Museum for the Eighties, organized by the Halvat Huvit gallery in Helsinki, Finland. The article includes a list of works and a photograph of El fallo, a [...]

This newsletter (written in English) reports on the opening of Conceptual art facing the latin american problem, the exhibition organized by Jorge Glusberg and shown in February 1974 at the MUCA (Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte) at the [...]

This newsletter announces that the artist Antonio Berni, who is well known in Argentina, will take part in Arte de Sistemas en Latinoamérica, an exhibition organized by the CAYC at the ICC (Internationaal Cultureel Centrum) in Antwerp, Belgium [...]

This newsletter announces (in English) a screening of videos at Open Circuits: An International Conference on the Future of Television, the event presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in January 1974. The article lists the titles and [...]

This newsletter announces the exhibition of Autopercepción electrónica (1974), a work by Fred Forest, at the CAYC. The article includes a photograph of the work Animation Presse, which was part of Space-Media (1972), the series by the [...]

The exhibition Hacia un perfil del arte latinoamericano was presented at the CAYC in Buenos Aires in June 1972, after being shown in Colombia and Ecuador. This newsletter announces that the exhibition will remain open beyond the original closing date [...]

This newsletter announces a presentation by the Grupo K-71—coordinated by Eduardo Marzano, Bernardo Rudoy, and Alfredo Vozzi—during the exhibition Arte de sistemas II at the CAYC. According to the newsletter, works by Argentinean artists [...]

This newsletter includes an article, written by Edgardo Antonio Vigo, about the work produced by members of the Grupo de los Trece. The text focuses on the objectual aspect of the works they presented at the exhibition at the CAYC that ran from [...]

This newsletter announces the presentation of Opresión-lucha-liberación, a contemporary dance performance choreographed by Nélida Puig and Lidia Andino. This was one of the activities on the program at CAYC al aire libre. Arte e [...]

This newsletter announces the opening of CAYC al aire libre. Arte e Ideología, which was presented at the Plaza Roberto Arlt (in downtown Buenos Aires). This event was part of Arte de sistemas II. The Grupo de los Trece expressed their [...]

This newsletter announces the opening of Grabados checoslovacos actuales, an exhibition that was presented as part of the second edition of the Exposición Internacional del Mueble y la Decoración, organized by the Cámara de [...]

As part of the campaign to promote Arte de sistemas II, this newsletter published a list of the artists who participated in CAYC al aire libre. Arte e Ideología, the exhibition that opened in September 1972 at the Plaza Roberto Arlt (in [...]

This newsletter announces the opening of an exhibition of works by Otto Piene in August at the CAYC. The newsletter includes a list of the German experimental artist’s works and a text in which he contextualizes his work within the category of [...]

As part of the campaign to promote the exhibition of works by the German experimental artist Otto Piene in August at the CAYC, this newsletter published a brief bio of the creator of multimedia art and founder of the ZERO group. The newsletter also [...]

Exposición Internacional de Proposiciones a realizar. Investigaciones poéticas was an exhibition organized by the artist Edgardo Antonio Vigo with the assistance of Elena Pelli and Clemente A. Padín at the CAYC. Twenty-eight [...]

This newsletter provides a list of the local and international artists who took part in the Premio Nor-Glas competition during the Escultura, follaje y ruidos exhibition in November 1970. The exhibition was installed at the Plaza Rubén Dar& [...]

This newsletter announces the establishment of the Nor-Glas Prize, proposed during the presentation of Escultura, follaje y ruidos, the exhibition installed in November 1970 at the Plaza Rubén Darío in Buenos Aires, located next to the [...]

This newsletter announces an event featuring the English historian Anthony Frederick Blunt, to be held in August 1970 at the CAYC in Buenos Aires. The event was part of the center’s  program of activities designed to expand the network of [...]

This newsletter introduced readers to This is art n 2, a series by the Brazilian artist Gastão de Magalhães, as part of the campaign to promote a solo exhibition of his works at the CAYC in Buenos Aires in February 1979, under the title [...]

Keeping in mind the Grupo de los Trece’s exhibition Los mitos del oro at the CAYC, this newsletter published an essay that discussed the expedition led by Juan Pizarro, the explorer, who, with his brothers, conquered Peru (1529–32). The [...]

This newsletter was part of the campaign to promote the Grupo de los Trece’s August 1978 exhibition Los mitos del oro. The newsletter published a reproduction of a print created by Louis Jean Désiré Delaistre (1800–1871) as [...]

As part of the campaign to promote Los mitos del oro, the exhibition of works by the Grupo de los Trece at the CAYC, this newsletter published the essay written by the director Jorge Glusberg. The essay refers to the history of Juan Pizarro’s [...]

This newsletter announces a screening of La gente del desierto (The Desert People), a film by David Lamelas, at the CAYC. The article includes a brief bio of the Argentinean artist, a description of his film’s subject matter, and a still.  [...]

This newsletter published images and texts from the work Testarte, by the Brazilian artist Vera Chaves Barcellos, as part of the campaign to promote the opening of her exhibition at the CAYC in November 1977.     [...]

This newsletter published photographs of some of Franz Erhard Walther’s art actions and a brief bio as part of the campaign to promote his exhibition at the CAYC. The German artist had an international career and kept in touch with the center [...]

As part of the campaign to promote the Grupo de los Trece’s exhibition at the XIV São Paulo Biennial (1977), this newsletter published the article that Jorge Glusberg wrote for the catalogue produced by the CAYC. In his article, Glusberg [...]

As part of the campaign to promote the Grupo de los Trece’s participation in the XIV São Paulo Biennial (scheduled to open on October 1, 1977), this newsletter published the essay that Jorge Glusberg had written for the catalogue [...]

These newsletters published the review of the Argentinean artist Leopoldo Maler’s work that was included in the catalogue that the CAYC produced on the occasion of the Grupo de los Trece’s presentation at the XIV São Paulo Biennial [...]

These newsletters published a review of the work of Vicente Marotta, who was featured in the catalogue produced by the CAYC following the success of the Grupo de los Trece, which won a prize at the XIV São Paulo Biennial in 1977. The text [...]

This newsletter highlights the Grupo de los Trece’s participation in the XIV São Paulo Biennial in 1977. It includes the essay written for the event by Jorge Glusberg and published in the catalogue produced by the CAYC. It also features [...]

As part of the campaign to promote the Grupo de los Trece’s participation in the XIV São Paulo Biennial (1977) this newsletter published the essay that was written by Jorge Glusberg and included in the catalogue produced by the CAYC. The [...]