Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This text provides an account of the lecture that Tomás Maldonado gave at the Galería Krayd in Buenos Aires on October 27, 1953. A Concrete artist, Maldonado spoke of the passage from “precise” to “imprecise forms” on the basis of a [...]

Using the Grupo de Artistas Modernos de la Argentina exhibition held at Galería Krayd in 1953 as a starting point, Jorge Romero Brest writes a critical text explaining his motives for supporting Concrete art. He proposes—in a prophetic tone—that [...]