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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.
1990
to represent social neurosis, the crisis of content, the loss of historical values, and all that is artificial and arbitrary in art”. 
He exchanges the works shown in this exhibition for the title deeds to the house on Defensa street were he was then living.
He also takes part in Arte por Artistas. 50 obras por 50 autores (“Artists by Artists. 50 Works Chosen by 50 Authors”) at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires; at La vuelta al Centro: los nuestros en las artes visuales contemporáneas (“A Tour Around the Centre: Our Representatives in Contemporary Visual Arts”), shown at the Centro Cultural Recoleta; and at Piratas del espacio (“Space Pirates”), at the Álvaro Castagnino gallery.
In December he shows Animal as part of the cycle “Una escultura” (“A Sculpture”), sponsored by Página 12 newspaper, which invites sculptors to use one entire room at the Centro Cultural Recoleta for one sculpture.
