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.
This one-man show was sponsored by the Marlborough New London Gallery, in London. The CAYC presented in November 1971 a collection of works by Joe Tilson (b. 1928) an English Pop leading figure. 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 masses on a number of different supports. In his work AEIOU (1970), Tilson combines silkscreen printing with cloth letters and collages of images of the body’s erogenous zones on a wooden panel.
