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.
The Third British International Print Biennale was organized by the municipal department responsible for overseeing museums and galleries in Bradford. The department was based at Cartwright Hall in Bradford and had the backing of the Bradford Corporation and the Arts Council of Great Britain. The exhibition traveled to various cities in England from October 1972 until April 1973.
The introduction to the catalogue notes that this edition of the competition received 3,360 submissions, the greatest number of entries in the history of the event. Ten of the selected artists were from Argentina: Jorge Álvaro, Eduardo Audivert, Sergio Camporeale, Delia I. Fabre, Juan C. Gómez, Mauro Kunst, Alejandro Marcos, Julio G. Paz, María Cristina Santander, and Antonio Seguí (the only artist in the group with an established career). Some participants took part in print exhibitions organized by the CAYC that—under the title Gráficos argentinos or Gráficos rioplatenses—were presented in various cities in the United States and Europe (GT-357; doc. no. 1476511; GT-460; doc. no. 1476859, GT-542; pending, GT-660; pending).
