The Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, founded in 1984, is a cultural extension of the Universidad de Buenos Aires. In 1989 the Galería del Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas was established in the Center’s vestibule; artist and art critic Jorge Gumier Maier served as its director. Magdalena Jitrik joined as his associate shortly after. Although it was initially a marginal space on the Buenos Aires art scene, it began to take on visibility between 1991 and 1992. The “young” artists of “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, among others) began to be incorporated into the agendas of key exhibition spaces, such as the ICI (Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana), the Centro Cultural de España and the Ruth Benzacar Gallery. References to past art trends—such as Pop Art, Minimalism, Concrete Art (under the most individual reformulations) as well as elements of kitsch—have characterized the expressive means of these artists. Towards the end of the decade, the artists that comprised “el grupo del Rojas” [Rojas Group] were generally understood as the representatives of the “arte argentino de los noventa” [Argentine art of the 1990s]. This article by Fabián Lebenglik is related to “La cuestión de los jóvenes” [The Matter of the Young Artists], also written by him and published in the same journal; in it he insists there is a lack of exhibition spaces for young artists in Buenos Aires. In this sense, the Galería del Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas occupied a central position on the art scene at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s.
