The Buenos Aires 64 exhibition took place during the month of September, 1964, in the corporate offices of Pepsi-Cola, Co. in New York City. The artists were selected by Hugo Parpagnoli, who was at the moment the director of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires. The roster of Argentinean representatives was as follows: Antonio Berni, Luis Felipe Noé, Ary Brizzi, Zulema Ciordia, Marta Minujín, Delia Puzzivio, Rubén Santantonín, Luis A. Wells, Josefina Robirosa, Luis Gowland- Moreno, Nemesio Mitre- Aguirre, Pablo Mesejean, Emilio Renart, Alberto Heredia, Carlos Uria, Carlos Squirru, Osvaldo Borda, Leon Ferrari, Bertha Rappaport, and Alberto Greco.
As indicated by the text, these artists did not belong to a school or a movement, even though they represented contemporary art from the Buenos Aires vanguard groups of those years and therefore, what “should,” or “preferably,” be shown abroad for the construction of an “updated” image (with respect to international centers) of what was being lived in the Buenos Aires art scene of that time: expressions linked to pop as well as art “of things” (a common expression in those years used to refer to objectual works) and also, the new geometry. They all constituted a corpus that was sufficiently “removed” from the traditional canon with which the “work of art” is considered.
