Glusberg, Jorge (curator and editor) as well as Grippo, Víctor, Alberto Pellegrino, and Alfredo Portillos (artists).

[LATIN AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE – COMPUTER ART – CAyC]. Arte de Sistemas [Art of Systems].

Buenos Aires: Centro de Arte y Comunicación (CAyC), 1971. Octavo (21 × 16.5 cm). Original printed staple-stitched cardboard; [24] pp. Leaves and binding somewhat toned; else good or better. Item #54980

Publication in the context of the exhibition “Arte de Sistemas”, in which the artists Víctor Grippo, Alberto Pellegrino, and Alfredo Portillo present three “proposals” (or conceptual works). The third exhibition, organized in July 1971 under the title "Arte de Sistemas" (Systems Art), was important not only because it succeeded in showing numerous renowned international artists such as Vito Acconci, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Allan Kaprow, Joseph Kosuth and Dennis Oppenheim, but also because it followed a strict rule: 101 experimental artists used only one specific construction paper in a single format. This was intended to create a standardized system in which all artists could participate on an equal footing. (José‑Carlos Mariátegui, Cybernetics and systems art in Latin America: the art and communication center, CAyC, and its pioneering art and technology network, in: Ai & Society 37, 2022, pp. 1071–1084.)

Despite this specifically technical paradigm, Glusberg addressed an extraordinarily broad spectrum of contemporary positions and genres of contemporary art at the time (different systems). These included artists from Conceptual Art, Arte Povera, Concrete Art and Poetry, Op Art, Land Art, Fluxus, Mail Art, Cybernetic Art, Installation Art, Process Art, etc. System aesthetics" endeavored to unite the widest possible spectrum. "Arte de Sistemas" was the attempt to realize and depict an understanding of interacting systems in a context. The systems theorist and artist Jack Burnham, whose texts in the magazine "Artforum" played a decisive role in shaping the concept of systems aesthetics, had a formative theoretical influence on this. One of his theories was that art functions as a kind of "information processing device" that mediates between natural phenomena and cultural phenomena. The exhibition was shown at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires, which opened to the public in 1960. (Cf. entry for the CAyC Newsletter 1971 / GT-54 on the page "CAYC Files", ht tps://ica a.mfah. o rg)

The best-known artist of the three protagonists of CAyC is Víctor Grippo. He was strongly influenced by “Arte povera” and the works by Joseph Beuys. He also mostly used elementary everyday objects such as food, tools and tables for his installations. Grippo became known above all for his use of the potato as a typical crop of the American continent. (AKL, LXII, 2009, p. 343)

As of March 2025, OCLC found seven copies in North America.

Price: €500.00

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