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 an important role in this process. The exhibitions shone a light on these exchanges, in which overviews of trends or individual artists provided an introduction to the innovations of international contemporary art and made Argentine and Latin American artists better known on the global scene.
Horst Tress (b. 1950) is from Cologne, Germany. After completing his training and working as a typographer and graphic designer, he became involved in Cologne’s avant-garde art scene in 1970, thanks to the support of the galley owner Ingo Kümmel (1937–1990). With Kümmel’s help, Tress became involved with the Fluxus movement. He then produced a great deal of material that he shared via the group’s international network in the form of mail art and visual poetry. He became associated with the CAYC in 1972, after being invited to participate as an international guest artist at the exhibition Hacia un perfil del arte latinoamericano, in the version presented in Buenos Aires and the one that was part of the Encuentro Internacional de Arte de Pamplona, an event held in Spain.
