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 exhibitions that traveled around a contemporary circuit of new cultural spaces and centers that were emerging in Europe at the time. The exhibition Arte de Sistemas en Latinoamérica traveled to several European cities from 1974 to 1976, presenting an overview of the region’s recent works adapted to the concept of systems art.
Promoting the first edition of this exhibition at the ICC in Antwerp, this newsletter includes photographs of the installation and of one of the activities scheduled for the Semana Latinoamericana [GT-378 (doc. no. 1476528)]. This was a recurring practice in the CAYC’s “work newsletters,” publications that sought to expand awareness of its activities in other countries. In this important Belgian seaport, the CAYC promoted a number of artistic and cultural activities, reported on in several newsletters [see GT-380 (doc. no. 1476529); GT-354 (doc. no. 1476507)/GT-356 (doc. no. 1476508); GT-414 (doc. no. 1476542)].
It should be noted that Arte de Sistemas en Latinoamérica established systems art as a movement that positioned the CAYC as the focal point for the exposure and promotion of Latin American Conceptualism.
