Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this latest foray on the international stage, the CAYC presented an updated version of Arte de Sistemas en Latinoamérica in London on November 28, 1974. The exhibition, at the British ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art), included works by [...]

This newsletter announces that a group of Argentinean artists will show their works at the tenth edition of the Sigma Festival in the city of Bordeaux, in southwestern France. The article provides a list of participating artists and includes pictures [...]

The CAYC produced this newsletter to promote the exhibition Arte de Sistemas en Latinoamérica at the Palazzo dei Diamanti, in Ferrara, Italy. The event opened on May 25, 1975, and the newsletter includes black-and-white photographs of works by [...]

In this newsletter, the CAYC announces the opening of Arte en cambio II, with works by the Grupo de los Trece at this second edition of the event at the center on September 20, 1974. The article provides a list of participating artists and photos of [...]

Arte de Sistemas en Latinoamérica was presented at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Belgium, in April 1974. Taking a significant step in its European foray, the CAYC also established its presence in Antwerp. This newsletter published [...]

This newsletter announces the list of participating artists in Arte de Sistemas en Latinoamérica, the traveling exhibition that was organized by the CAYC and, on this occasion, presented at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Belgium [...]

On the occasion of the CAYC’s foray into Belgium, this newsletter published a list of the artists whose works were shown at Arte de Sistemas en Latinoamérica, the traveling exhibition that the center presented at the Internationaal [...]

This newsletter presents the program of complementary activities organized for the “Semana Latinoamericana” during Arte de Sistemas en Latinoamérica, the exhibition opening in April 1974 at the ICC (Internationaal Cultureel Centrum [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

Due to the exceptional circumstances at the time—the military coup d’état that had taken place in Chile—this newsletter marks a departure from previous formats. It expresses the center’s democratic solidarity with the [...]

This article announces the opening of Arte de Sistemas, the exhibition presented at Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires. Participating artists are listed by country and there is a brief description of the concept of “arte de sistemas.” [...]

This newsletter announces the opening of the Expo Internacional de Proposiciones a realizar. Investigaciones poéticas [sic], organized by Edgardo Antonio Vigo in collaboration with Elena Pelli, and Clemente A. Padín. Twenty-eight [...]

This newsletter announces the opening of the international exhibition of proposals on the subject of “Poetic Research,” scheduled for June 18, 1971, at the CAYC’s premises in the heart of Buenos Aires. The text provides a definition [...]

In this essay, the artist and performer Clemente Padín explains the concept of “street art and urban art” following the alternative art exhibition, Tomarte, held in the city of Rosario, Argentina, in April 1990, with the pretense [...]

Catalog for the exhibition De la figuración al arte de sistemas [From Figuration to Systems Art] (Córdoba: Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Emilio A. Caraffa, August 1970 [...]