Art critic Fabián Lebenglik reviewed the exhibitions by artists who comprised what became known as “el grupo del Rojas” from inception,that is, those artists whose visibility within the Buenos Aires art scene became linked to the Galería del Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas; which is the case of Agustín Inchausti (1970–).
When it comes to understanding the 1990s Argentinean art, the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas acquires a quite important role. Founded in 1984, it is a cultural extension of the Universidad de Buenos Aires, in which various activities developed, such as courses, conferences, film series, and the like. A few years after it opened in 1989, the Galería del Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas was created in the entrance hall of the university campus and was directed by artist and art critic Jorge Gumier Maier. Shortly thereafter Magdalena Jitrik joined as an assistant.
What began as an underground space within the Buenos Aires artistic scene immediately developed great visibility between 1991 and 1992. The artists from “El Rojas” (Fabián Burgos, Graciela Hasper, Feliciano Centurión, Martín Di Girolamo, Alberto Goldestein, Sebastián Gordín, Miguel Harte, Agustín Inchausti, Luis Lindner, Nuna Magiante, Emiliano Miliyo, Esteban Pagés, Ariadna Pastorini, Marcelo Pombo, Cristina Schiavi, Enrique Marmora, Sergio Vila, Benito Laren, Omar Schiliro, and Alfredo Londaibere, Liliana Maresca, among many others) began to be incorporated into the programs of key exhibition spaces, such as the ICI (Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana), the Centro Cultural de España, and the Galería Ruth Benzacar.
The reference to poetics of the past, such as Pop art, minimalism, Concrete art (under extremely personal reformulations), besides elements of kitsch, have helped to characterize the resources of expression of such artists. Toward the end of the decade, the artists who made up “el grupo del Rojas” were grouped, in a generic manner, as the representatives of the “1990s Argentinean art.”
The Espacio Giesso was one of the “alternative” exhibition spaces during the nineties. Many of the artists from “El Rojas” assembled their works in this space, as this document indicates.
Please see the exhibition catalog, which contains a text by Fabián Lebenglik (the same text as this article), an image of the artist’s work, and his resumé (record 769842).