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.
In 1974 the CAYC began focusing a great deal of its attention on this project, promoting a variety of initiatives in a contemporary circuit of new cultural spaces and centers that were emerging in Europe at the time. A number of exhibitions of Latin American and Argentinean art visited several European cities, presenting an overview of the region’s recent works.
It should be noted that Arte de Sistemas en Latinoamérica established arte de sistemas as a movement that positioned the CAYC as the focal point for the exposure and promotion of Latin American Conceptualism. This newsletter served as a promotional aid for this exhibition in Europe as follows: at the ICC in Antwerp [see GT-354 (doc. no. 1476507), GT- 356 (doc. no. 1476508), GT-378 (doc. no. 1476528), GT-381 (doc. no. 1476530), GT-403 (doc. no. 1476538), GT-430 (doc. no. 1476512) at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels GT-380 (doc. no. 1476529), GT-390 (doc. no. 1476532), GT-391 (doc. no. 1476533), GT-402 (doc. no. 1476537); and at the ICA in London GT-467 (doc. no. 1476909), GT-468 (doc. no. 1476910), GT-469 (doc. no. 1476911), GT-470 (doc. no. 1476912)]. The newsletter includes a review written by Roger D´Hondt that appeared in New Reform News, the monthly newsletter published by New Reform, the art center in Aalst, Belgium, where D´Hondt was the director from 1970 to 1979.
