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.
At the exhibition Dos grabadores japoneses en Buenos Aires, the CAYC introduced the two Japanese artists: Tsuyoshi Yayanagi (b. 1933) and Kosuke Kimura (b. 1936). They were both members of the Japanese delegation to the XI Bienal de São Paulo, which opened in early September 1971. The curator for that exhibition, Tadao Ogura, selected young painters, printmakers, and sculptors to submit their work to the event. A few days after the opening of the São Paulo biennial, Yayanagi and Kimura opened an exhibition of their prints at the CAYC. During that decade, the evolution of science and technology introduced new techniques for engraving and printing with which Kimura experimented. In his works he combined photography and silkscreen printing to create collages that convey a poetics influenced by communications media and by advertising, a field he works in at home in Japan.
[For more information on this subject, see GT-73 (doc. no. 1476304).]
