The CAYC Files is the first initiative organized as part of a long-term partnership between the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), New York. Their first collaboration centers on the digitization and annotation of key documents belonging to the Buenos Aires-based Centro de Arte y Comunicación (CAYC) and its founder, the legendary cultural promoter Jorge Glusberg.
Arte de sistemas en latinoamerica
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.
Annotations
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 director from 1970 to 1979.
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