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.
Several films in this selection are documentary records of the activities and exhibitions that the CAYC had been organizing ever since its very early years. This record was created by Pedro Roth and Danilo Galasse as members of “Ediciones Tercer Mundo” (Third World Editions), the group they founded with Glusberg’s support, using the center’s equipment. Specifically, they shot their films with an R16-B Beaulieu Automatic camera, as mentioned in the newsletter.
There were also works that had been shown at recent exhibitions at the center in Buenos Aires, such as Casa o mierda (1969), a documentary by Carlos Flores and Guillermo Cahn that addressed the housing problem in Chile; Ejercicios sobre sí mismo by the Brazilian filmmaker Angelo de Aquino (see GT-315 [doc. no. 1476477], GT-318 [doc. no. 1476478], GT-319 [doc. no. 1476479]) and Antologías by the Peruvian filmmaker Rafael Hastings (GT-329 [doc. no. 1476494]).
This exhibition took the selected crop of films to yet another stop on the journey that had so far taken them to Germany, to the Galerie Paramedia in West Berlin (GT-311 [doc. no. 1476449]), and Italy, to the Galleria Toselli in Milan (GT-312 [doc. no. 1476450]). Those events included presentations of recent activities, thus positioning the CAYC at a regional and international level as the focal point for the exposure and promotion of Conceptual art produced in Latin America and Third World countries.
