Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This newsletter invites readers to the experimental music concert that was staged as part of the exhibition Arte de sistemas II at the CAYC in Buenos Aires. The article includes the program of musical pieces and mentions the use of the Holimar sound [...]

This newsletter invites readers to the experimental music concert to be presented as part of the exhibition Arte de sistemas II Internacional at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (MAMBA), which will feature a performance by the guru of [...]

This newsletter invites readers to attend “Semiótica de la arquitectura” (The Semiotics of Architecture), a seminar to be presented by Professor Armando Sercovich at the CAYC in Buenos Aires. This event demonstrated the center& [...]

This newsletter invites readers to attend the seminar Arte y comunicación, to be presented by Abraham Moles. The CAYC was keenly interested in promoting a connection between theoretical thinking and artistic practice among a diverse group of [...]

This newsletter invites readers to a roundtable discussion about art biennials. There was, at that time, the issue of the controversy caused by the XI São Paulo Biennial that took place in Brazil from September to November 1971. The article [...]

This newsletter invites readers to attend the seminar, Introducción a la investigación semiológica, to be presented by Professor Armando Sercovich at the CAYC. As mentioned in the newsletter, the event represents the center&rsquo [...]

This newsletter is an invitation to attend “Antiliteratura y escritura (de cortázar a puig)” (Anti-literature and Writing: From Cortázar to Puig), a talk by Professor Alfred Mac Adam. This event came about as a result of the [...]

This newsletter invites readers to take part in the series of Jornadas Intensivas de Discusión (Intensive Discussion Workshops) that the CAYC organized in 1970 and 1971. This initiative was part of the center’s attempt to connect [...]

This newsletter announces the critic and theorist Charles Harrison’s visit to Buenos Aires and reports on the activities planned for his stay including conversations at the openings of two exhibitions: Yehuda Neiman and El arte como idea en [...]

This newsletter serves as an invitation to “Introducción a la investigación semiológica”, a seminar taught by Professor Armando Sercovich and his team at the CAYC. It provides details about the program for the seminar [...]

This newsletter invites readers to take part in the “Jornadas Intensivas de Discusión 1970,” a forum for discussion organized by the CAYC from 1970–71. The gesture conveys the center’s interest in making connections [...]

Yet another newsletter invites readers to take part in the “Jornadas Intensivas de Discusión 1970,” a forum for discussion organized by the CAYC that year and the following year. The article conveys the center’s interest in [...]

This newsletter provides a look at the Polish critic and curator Jasia Reichardt’s resume in advance of the three presentations she was scheduled to make at the CAYC in Buenos Aires. Her successful exhibition Cybernetic Serendipity (1968) had [...]

This newsletter (written in English) published a call for submissions inviting artists and architects to take part in Imagen y palabra, an exhibition organized by the CAYC. The article includes instructions for submissions as applied to their [...]

This newsletter (written in English) published a call for submissions inviting artists and architects to take part in Imagen y palabra, an exhibition organized by the CAYC. The article includes instructions for submissions as applied to their [...]

This newsletter published the file containing information concerning the shipment of videos to be entered in the V Encuentro Internacional Abierto de Video, organized by the CAYC at the  Internationaal Cultureel Centrum in Antwerp, Belgium. [...]

This newsletter announces the creation of multidisciplinary study groups devoted to the exploration of alternative approaches in the field of architecture at the CAYC’s School of Advanced Studies. The article mentions subjects of interest and [...]

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 [...]

After the exhibition Homenaje a Salvador Allende was shown at the CAYC the previous year, this newsletter provided instructions for those who wished to take part in a traveling show organized by the center. The goal of the project was to commemorate [...]

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 announces the opening of Composiciones seriadas, an exhibition of works by the North American artist Sol Lewitt (1928–2007) at the CAYC’s center in Buenos Aires. The article includes a series of images from Serial Project [...]

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 issue announces that the CAYC’s GT newsletters and its catalogues will no longer be distributed free of charge. The article stipulates the fees that would henceforth be charged. The so-called “yellow pages,” or GTs, were the [...]

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 the submission of films to a Festival para formatos no comerciales, an event to be held at the CAYC with screenings scheduled for October to November 1973. The newsletter invited candidates to submit works with a [...]

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 call for submissions to El grabado y la realidad nacional, an event organized by the CAYC. Voting was conducted with tickets issued to visitors of the exhibition Arte de Sistemas II at its three locations, [...]

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 Portuguese) published a critical text in which Jorge Glusberg discussed the work of the artist and architect Clorindo Testa, a member of the Grupo de los Trece. Some months earlier, in October 1977, the group was awarded [...]

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 [...]

In the 1970s, discussions about staging exhibitions acknowledged the savings involved when dealing with works that could be copied. As part of the campaign to promote the CAYC’s exhibition La década del 70, this newsletter (written in [...]

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 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 [...]