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.
Jorge Silberman (b. 1943) was part of the avant-garde poetry circle in Argentina. He published Etc. (1971)—a book of poems with drawings by Guillermo Gulland (1939–2017), which was selected for the 1971 Paris Biennale—and Glup (1972), “visual texts” in the author’s own words. Silberman and his work traveled with Arte de sistemas en Latinoamérica, the exhibition that toured several European cities from 1974 to 1976 and introduced Latin American art to the international circuit.
This newsletter announces the opening of an exhibition of the Argentinean artist’s work in Buenos Aires. As he had done on other occasions, Glusberg organized solo presentations for some of the artists whose work was being shown at larger exhibitions. The newsletter includes refences to Silberman’s Hoja Lata, an “artist’s book” published in April 1974, which consists of a number of black-and-white photographs. The newsletter also includes a discussion on the subject of “artists’ books,” seeing them as objects that can be interpreted in many different ways by readers who can grasp the sense of the image and have no need for words.
