Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This newsletter announces the opening of Parables by Ken Friedman. A Perspective Exhibition at the CAYC in September 1974. The event is promoted with pseudo-musical scores (noting the date and the city in which the presentations took place) created [...]

This newsletter announces that the CAYC will present Phototext, a work by Ian Breakwell, a British multimedia artist who was a member of the Artist Placement Group (APG) in the 1970s. In the 1960s and 1970s this London-based group tried to take art [...]

This newsletter announces that the exhibition Brasil 74 will be installed at the Club Universitario in La Plata, the capital of the Province of Buenos Aires. The article includes a list of participating artists and a photograph of some of them with [...]

This newsletter announces the opening of the exhibition Gráficos argentinos ‘74, which was organized by the CAYC and installed in the exhibition rooms at the Illinois Bell Telephone Company in Chicago. The article includes a list of [...]

Playing a key role in the coverage of Arte de Sistemas en Latinoamérica on its tour of European cities (from April to December 1974), this newsletter includes a review of the exhibition at the Internationaal Cultureel Centrum in Antwerp [...]

This newsletter announces the screening of a number of films (selected by the CAYC) at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. The article includes a list of the films that were scheduled to be shown [...]

As part of the Argentinean institution’s European tour in 1974, this newsletter announces the opening of an exhibition of Latin American art in July organized by the CAYC at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg, Germany, with a presentation [...]

This newsletter mentions the exhibition of works by the German artist Horst Tress at the CAYC headquarters. The article includes reproductions of some of the works in the exhibition [...]

This newsletter announces an exhibition of works by the German artist Horst Tress at the CAYC in Buenos Aires. Tress was a member of the Fluxus movement; his work focused on mail art and visual poetry. The article includes reproductions of some of [...]

This newsletter mentions the exhibition of works by the German artist Horst Tress at the CAYC headquarters. The article includes reproductions of some of the works in the exhibition [...]

This newsletter announces an exhibition of works by Horst Tress at the CAYC. The article includes reproductions of some of the works exhibited by this German artist, who was associated with the Fluxus group at an international level.   & [...]

This newsletter announces the presentation of videos produced by Argentinean artists to be shown at Open Circuits. An International Conference on the Future of Television at MoMA in New York. Using still images taken from each video and its title, [...]

This newsletter includes a copy of a text written by the Argentinean artist Edgardo Antonio Vigo about his work Historietas herméticas (1974). He wrote it for the catalogue for Arte de Sistemas en Latinoamérica, the CAYC’s April [...]

This newsletter includes a copy of a text in which the artist Janos Urban introduces his works on videotape, which were shown at the CAYC. Urban was one of the pioneers in the field of Conceptualism in the Swiss art scene [...]

A presentation of works by the group of Argentinean artists who took part in Arte y Cibernética (the first exhibition organized by the CAYC in 1969) and Creatividad Artificial (the exhibition that was part of the Festival de Arte e Investigaci [...]

This newsletter announces that, at the CAYC’s invitation, the Peruvian artist Rafael Hastings will visit Buenos Aires to present his works at a gathering at the center prior to his participation in Arte de Sistemas en Latinoamérica, the [...]

This newsletter presents the work of the German experimental artist Otto Piene as part of the promotional efforts organized in support of his one-man show at the Museo Genaro Pérez in the city of Córdoba, Argentina, in December 1973. [...]

This newsletter announces the presentation of Expoprojeção 73, an event that consisted of a series of experimental films and audiovisuals created by Brazilian artists and selected by the noted Brazilian critic and curator Aracy Amaral [...]

This newsletter announces the presentation of Expoprojeção 73, an event that consisted of a series of experimental films and audiovisuals created by Brazilian artists and selected by the noted Brazilian critic and curator Aracy Amaral [...]

This newsletter announces the presentation of the exhibition Hacia un perfil del arte latinoamericano at the Wspókczsna Gallery in Warsaw. This was example of the ties that Glusberg was determined to strengthen with countries that were, at the [...]

This newsletter announces the opening of an exhibition of works by Hans Joachim Dietrich at the CAYC. The article includes a text in which Jorge Glusberg explains the relevance of this German artist’s work that, according to Glusberg, is [...]

This newsletter announces the opening of an exhibition of works by the German artist Hans Joachim Dietrich at the CAYC. A photograph and a drawing illustrate this communication [...]

This newsletter announces the opening of an exhibition of works by Hans Joachim Dietrich at the CAYC. The article includes a text in which Jorge Glusberg explains the relevance of this German artist’s work that, according to Glusberg, is [...]

This newsletter announces an exhibition of silkscreen prints by Nicolás García Uriburu. The article includes a brief text in which the art critic Pierre Restany explains what these prints are about. There is also a reproduction of one [...]

This newsletter announces an exhibition of works by the Brazilian artist Angelo de Aquino at the CAYC. The article includes photographs of some of his works.    [...]

This newsletter announces the opening of an exhibition of photographic works by Angelo de Aquino. The article includes reproductions of some of his works [...]

This newsletter announces an exhibition of works by the Brazilian artist Angelo de Aquino. The article includes photographs of some of his works.   [...]

This newsletter announces the exhibition of works from the series La ilustración del arte, by Antonio Dias, the Brazilian experimental avant-garde artist, at the CAYC. The article includes a list of the works in the exhibition and a picture of [...]

This newsletter announces the presentation of three films in the series La ilustración del arte by Antonio Dias at the CAYC in November 1973. Dias had made a name for himself among the Brazilian avant-garde in the late 1960s with his Pop art, [...]

This newsletter announces the CAYC’s presentation at the Galleria Toselli in Milan, Italy. The program will feature six films produced by artists who are members of the Grupo de los Trece and by other guest artists. There will be a screening of [...]

This newsletter reports on the CAYC’s participation at the Galerie Paramedia in West Germany and provides a list of participating artists and their productions. The films listed in the program are the work of the Grupo de los Trece and other [...]

This newsletter announces the opening of an exhibition of works of Fernando Benedit. The event, which took place at the CAYC, featured two of his works that had previously been shown at MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York. The article explains [...]

This newsletter, published in June 1973, announced the opening of an exhibition of computer art at the CAYC. Continuing the research into the connection between art and technology that the center had been conducting since 1969, this article describes [...]

Seeking to promote contemporary Japanese art, this newsletter announces the opening of an exhibition of works by Reiko Ohata and Tetsuro Sawada at the CAYC. These two artists will present tapestries and oil paintings, respectively. The article [...]

An article in this newsletter announces the participation of Argentinean artists, represented by the CAYC, at the exhibition Tendencies-5, at the Zagreb Gallery of Contemporary Art. This was another example of the center’s ties to Eastern [...]

This newsletter invites readers to the opening of Arte en cambio, the exhibition that showcased the Grupo de los Trece’s radical approach. There is a list of participants and the works they will show at the CAYC event; the title of the [...]

This newsletter invites readers to the exhibition Arte en cambio. It includes a text in which the director of the CAYC, Jorge Glusberg, talks about the radical nature of the works in the show. It also includes a photograph of one of the works in the [...]

This newsletter announces the opening of Anteproyectos, an exhibition of works by Horacio Zabala at the CAYC, in May 1973. This was Zabala’s first one-man show as a member of the Grupo de los Trece. The exhibition filled the center’s [...]

This newsletter announces the opening of Composiciones seriadas, the exhibition of works by the North American artist Sol LeWitt (1928–2007) at the Centro Cultural Platense, located in the city of La Plata (the capital of the province of Buenos [...]

As part of the promotion for the CAYC’s presentation of Homenaje a Salvador Allende, this newsletter announces a concert starring Amelita Baltar at the opening of the exhibition. Baltar will sing Violetas populares, the tango composed by Astor [...]

This newsletter announces the opening of Homenaje a Salvador Allende, an exhibition of works by Chilean artists. The CAYC organized the event in memory of the constitutional president who was overthrown during the military coup d’état [...]

This newsletter article announces a presentation of works by the Uruguayan artist Jorge Caraballo at the CAYC, an exhibition that was clearly in line with the combative stance the center had adopted at a time of heightened international tensions. [...]

This newsletter, published in April 1973, announces the opening of Violencia, an exhibition of works by Juan Carlos Romero at the CAYC. The article in the newsletter includes a reproduction of one of the artist’s works—which may have been [...]

This newsletter introduces Hacia un perfil del arte latinoamericano, the exhibition organized by the CAYC and shown at the Amadis gallery in Madrid. The event took place after the exhibition’s earlier runs at the III Bienal de Arte  [...]

Listado de obras de artistas argentinos e internacionales participantes de la exhibición Hacia un perfil del arte latinoamericano, inaugurada el 22 de junio de 1972 en la sede del CAYC. Trátase de la primera presentación en [...]

This newsletter lists the works shown and participating artists at the exhibition organized by the CAYC as part of the Salón de la Independencia in Quito, Ecuador. This was one of the first times the center used the title Hacia un perfil del [...]

This newsletter announces the opening of 121 grabados checoslovacos, the exhibition jointly organized with the Narodni Galerie (Popular Gallery) in Prague and presented at the CAYC’s premises. The exhibition provides a brief overview of [...]

An article in this newsletter lists the exhibitions that the CAYC organized in 1972. The list includes events held at the center’s premises as well as those that were presented at the local and international institutions with which the CAYC [...]

An article in this newsletter announces that the CAYC is participating in the III Bienal de Arte Coltejer, an event taking place in Medellín, Colombia. The Argentinean center will present Arte de Sistemas, an exhibition organized by Jorge [...]

This newsletter includes an invitation to the opening of Dos jóvenes artistas suizos de vanguardia: Heiner Kielholz y Christian Rothacher, the exhibition presented at the CAYC. The article mentions the collaboration with the Swiss embassy in [...]