A houndred of works have been selected and are accompanied by those documents and props (such as photographs, gigantic photos and digitalisations), and also by the essays, texts and critical system of the catalogue. They work or operate together. In the firts place, as an identical system of gradual and diverse approaches to the problem of Abstraction− a central subject in the history of international art in the XXth century, with is derivationstowards Concrete art and its posterior re elaborations. Secondly, as a structure made up of information , knowledge and visual as well as theoretical proposal wich has already contributed and still contributes to the debate over Non-Figurative art −this donde from a geographically and culturally displaced centre. This “centre” offers the possibility of witnessing and featuring ideas and productions spread out internationally (for the Latin American artists are placed amidst crosses and tensions between an alien though familiar tradition and a local and regional history of its own which enables them a more free manipulation of established canons). Thirdly we find a chronological narration. This selects artists, works and groups which, unfolded on their actual stage, can show their points of contact and their differences, their heritage, continuities and contributions to the research done on Abstact art during the last decades of modernity in the River Plate. Fourthly, it is an explanatory model where works and the dialogues among them inagurate journeys to be made out of fixed or univocal paths. Between facts and historical imagination, the curatorial expertise proposes meeting points which update the reading of those ex−centric vanguards that took place, between Argentineans and Uruguayans, in Buenos Aires.
Índice:
"Presentation". Mario Scaglia, p. 3
"Presentation". Adriana Rosenberg, p. 3
"Columbus. A Round Voyage". Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, p. 4-5
"Journeys of non−figurative art in the Rio de la Plata". Marcelo Pacheco, p. 5-7
"Abstract art in Argentina. Intermission and instauration". Adriana Lauría, p. 8
"Fontana and the abstraction". Enrico Crispolti, p. 19-23
"Interview to Tomas Maldonado". Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, p. 23-25
Manifiestos, p. 26-49
"A record of abstract art in the Rio de la Plata". Florencia Battiti, Cristina Rossi, p. 50-60
"Artist biographies". Florencia Battiti, Cristina Rossi, p. 61-72.
Año de publicación: 2003
Encuadernación: Rústica
Páginas: 74
