Alberto Greco
Untitled, 1960

same– claiming that through this process he obtained organic reactions of the material that enriched his work with unexpected results.

The “artistic object”, even in that time, resulted little stimulating. He was less concerned with the finished and definite work, than in the behavior of the artist within the social reality. In 1959 he pre-announced his “artistic operations”, displaying on Florida Street the paintings he had exhibited at the Van Riel Gallery.

On September 1960, at the Sixth Annual Salon of New Art, which took place at the Sívori Museum, Greco presented the trunk of a tree somewhat burned (he had picked it up from the street) and two clean floor rags, stretched over a couple of frames. It was evident that in this case the notion of art had come down to a mere individual opinion. It was the artist who created his own notion of the object of art. But, above all, it was notorious that at that time he opposed all conventionalisms and artistic norms. He was interested in the identity of the individual artist, a product of an extreme singular conscience.

During a talk at the Argentine Association of Plastic Artists, in 1961, he had this to say about Informalism:

“It isn’t an attempt against the form, as most people think, at least not in my case. This would be ridiculous. I believe in the form of the un-uniform.