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.
Michael Gitlin (b. 1943) studied art in Israel and then in New York, where he has lived since the 1970s. After showing his work at the OK Harris gallery in New York and the Galerie Schmela in Düsseldorf, Germany (both venues promoted contemporary avant-garde artists), the CAYC then organized this exhibition of Gitlin’s work in Buenos Aires.
Gitlin’s work relies on simple, interrelated forms. Some are made of wood, others are painted on site in the exhibition space, and the resulting installation poses questions about the meaning of an object in relation to the space it inhabits; object and space are thus mutually defined. Gitlin also works with modular and industrial elements and minimally complex forms, eliminating any kind of “visual anecdote.”
