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Norberto
Gómez
Gómez
by
Adriana Lauria and Enrique Llambías
March 2006
March 2006
This dossier covers forty years of Norberto Gómez’s work, from his minimalist constructions of 1966 and 1967 to the anti-monuments he produced in polyester and bronze in the nineties. In between, his series of “guts”, organic remains, weapons and “plasters” punctuate a long career that has enriched the Argentine art scene.
1984
like a small-scale memorial to the people that disappeared because of the state terrorism of the ’70s and ’80s.
The work was not included in the exhibition, as it was argued that they had commissioned drawings. The making of these objects, however, provided inspiration for the technique and the theme of the weapons and instruments of torture that he would exhibit the following year in a one-man show.
