Het Museum of Fine Arts in Houston maakte onlangs bekend, dat ze de 'files' - lees publicaties uit het archief van het ‘Centro de Arte y Comunication’ (CAYC) Buenos Aires via een publicatie op haar website wereldkundig heeft gemaakt (lees hieronder). Daarin wordt ook aandacht geschonken aan de (goede) relatie met New Reform. De files bevinden zich ook in de archieven van New Reform die zijn ondergebracht, en kunnen worden geraadpleegd, in het stadsarchief van Aalst. Daarin bevind zich ook een volledige tentoonstelling samengesteld door Jorge Glusberg.
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 written by Roger D´Hondt and published in New Reform News. The
article includes photographs of various works by Luis Fernando Benedit, Nicolás
García Uriburu, Antonio Berni, and Víctor Grippo at the first edition.
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Ever since it was founded, the CAYC (Centro de Arte y
Comunicación), helmed by the cultural promoter, artist, and businessman Jorge
Glusberg, was intended as an interdisciplinary space where an experimental art
movement could flourish. The establishment of collaborative networks connecting
local and international artists and critics played an important role in this
process. The exhibitions shone a light on these exchanges, in which overviews
of trends or individual artists provided an introduction to the innovations of
international contemporary art and made Argentine and Latin American artists
better known on the global scene.
In 1974 the CAYC began focusing a great deal of its
attention on this project, promoting a variety of initiatives in a contemporary
circuit of new cultural spaces and centers that were emerging in Europe at the
time. A number of exhibitions of Latin American and Argentinean art visited
several European cities, presenting an overview of the region’s recent
works.
It should be noted that Arte de Sistemas en
Latinoamérica established arte de sistemas as a movement that
positioned the CAYC as the focal point for the exposure and promotion of Latin
American Conceptualism. This newsletter served as a promotional aid for this
exhibition in Europe as follows: at the ICC in Antwerp [see GT-354 (doc. no.
1476507), GT- 356 (doc. no. 1476508), GT-378 (doc. no. 1476528), GT-381 (doc.
no. 1476530), GT-403 (doc. no. 1476538), GT-430 (doc. no. 1476512) at the
Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels GT-380 (doc. no. 1476529), GT-390 (doc. no.
1476532), GT-391 (doc. no. 1476533), GT-402 (doc. no. 1476537); and at
the ICA in London GT-467 (doc. no. 1476909), GT-468 (doc. no. 1476910), GT-469
(doc. no. 1476911), GT-470 (doc. no. 1476912)]. The newsletter includes a review written by Roger D´Hondt that appeared
in New Reform News, the monthly newsletter published by New Reform,
the art center in Aalst, Belgium, where D´Hondt was the curator from 1970 to
1979.