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.
Bernardo Krasniansky (1951–2021), a central figure in Paraguayan Conceptual art circles, was a regular guest artist at CAYC events. This newsletter announces his one-man show at the CAYC in July 1975. With Glusberg’s help, Krasniansky experimented with Xerox machines, trying to develop what he called “direct drawing.” In fact, his use of photocopiers as a work tool explored and went beyond the subtleties of repetitive works on paper. Using the machine’s options to enlarge or reduce or to adjust tone and brightness, and working on it while it was in operation, Krasniansky would draw images that had not yet been fixed by the heat. The series he produced expresses a scathing critique of representation that, over the course of time, would become a canonical example of Conceptual art.
