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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
Gyula Kosice
Gyula Kosice. “Escultura Madinemsor”, in: Madí magazine. Buenos Aires, October 1948, No. 2.
The irregular frame, the articulate painting; sculptures with articulate motion, linear, shiftable and universal are absolute Madí inventions.
The physic space can be entirely different from the representation we obtain from it through our visual and muscular direct experience.
We say:
Space is measurable in its depth.
None of the pre-Madic schools has considered the following axiom, encircled by this triadic arch:
–distance – speed – motion–
Spatial depth is measurable. Mystery does not exist.
Until today, the wall, intermediary of painting.
Color and anecdote in kinetic, aerial planes!
Remotely controlled sculptures!
Invented poetic images exceeding every configuration!
Against the immobility of concrete art.
Against the discursive literature.
