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.
Joe Tilson (b. 1928) is a British artist who made a name for himself with his wooden sculptures carved with pictorial reliefs. In the early 1970s he transitioned from Pop-inspired collages to a symbolic series of works inspired by classical mythology and lunar cycles. Tilson, who is from London, represented the United Kingdom at the famous 32nd Venice Biennale (1964) that established new trends and introduced artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, and Claes Oldenburg.
Thanks to the ties that Glusberg forged with established iconic figures in the international scene, the CAYC presented Joe Tilson’s one-man show in November 1971, a collection of works by one of the leading figures of English Pop. In his works, Tilson relies on innovations developed in the field of print technology, especially in silkscreen printing. He uses them to produce collages of popular, iconic images associated with the mass culture on a number of different supports.
