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Concrete Art
in Argentina
in Argentina
by
Adriana Lauria
January 2003
January 2003
Abstraction asserted itself in Argentina through the achievements of groups such as Arte Concreto-Invención, Madí and Perceptismo, which developed their activity since the second half of the 1940s. These groups constituted the first organized national avant-garde and made their aesthetics known to the public through exhibitions, magazines, manifestoes, leaflets, lectures, etc.
Documents
Edgard Bayley
Edgard Bayley. “Ejaculation”, in Arturo magazine, Buenos Aires, 1944, no page number.
But fundamentally
I am persuaded
by colors and years
and the cemeteries themselves persuade me
Persuasion is perhaps necessary
The voice and the shooting picket
Arrival has been accomplished
And young men and women groups
that shoot in dreams to the landscape
It is the blue swimming woman in the war
Bended over the sea beneath the tenderness
They come back and establish upon time
Now the battle definitively won
I challenge
I ask: is it necessary to be persuaded about this deed?
Stones for the inventors
Alone they pierce the future
This machine rebuilds the moon
Buenos Aires, March 1944
I am persuaded
by colors and years
and the cemeteries themselves persuade me
Persuasion is perhaps necessary
The voice and the shooting picket
Arrival has been accomplished
And young men and women groups
that shoot in dreams to the landscape
It is the blue swimming woman in the war
Bended over the sea beneath the tenderness
They come back and establish upon time
Now the battle definitively won
I challenge
I ask: is it necessary to be persuaded about this deed?
Stones for the inventors
Alone they pierce the future
This machine rebuilds the moon
Buenos Aires, March 1944
