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.
From 1967 to 1972, the Swiss artists Heiner Kielholz (b. 1942) and Christian Rothacher (1944–2007) were part of the collective known as Ateliergemeinschaft Ziegelrain in Aarau. This group of young artists turned the city into the center of the Swiss avant-garde in the early 1970s. Kielholz was originally interested in Informalism and North American Abstract Expressionism, but by the late 1960s he was exploring other ideas, such as Conceptual art and Arte Povera. The article in the newsletter recalls that period of experimentation, especially as it relates to a spatial perception of the work or proposal. In later years his work turned toward a sort of introspective realism. Rothacher, on the other hand, who started his career designing shoes, developed a style of his own within object art. He used nontraditional materials such as tree branches, skins, leather, and ropes, and kept one ear tuned to the creative dialogue with the language of design.
Both of the reviews of the next exhibition to be held at the center that were provided by the CAYC spotlight where the works break with the traditional concept of “composition,” moving in the direction of Conceptualism.