Alberto Greco. Incorporation of live characters on canvas

Alberto Greco. Llegó lo mejor, Greco, c. 1964

cloths, some simply with drawings; there were ‘collages’, and, against two cloths, you could see a blind man and an old woman selling sweets. The first impression was very strange; after a while, there was simply no way of adapting to this new form of plastic art which the painter talks about. In a nut shell, cloths and people were the exhibition”.

Greco returned to Buenos Aires before the end of 1964 and presented his last Live-Art piece. He announced in the invitation: “My dear Madrid. Vivo-Dito painting show. With the help of the famous Spanish dancer Antonio Gades; presentation by Jorge Romero Brest”. A magazine of the time described the act:

“Half an hour before the show, on December 9th, the public amassed against the door of the art gallery, interrupting the transit and claiming in a spontaneous manner for the party to start. In the first room you could see a wall decorated with an old panel from a coffee shop of the Bajo district, surrounded by opulent sexy fine secular women; below them, each sign advised: My aunt María del Rosario Greco – My aunt Ursulina Greco. Two melancholic shoe shiners (who worked at the corners of Florida and Córdoba streets, and Florida and Paraguay streets) appeared sitting within a white frame, surrounded by shoe cream, brushes and ink bottles. Alberto Greco entered the room dressed as an admiral or ambassador (nobody ever really knew), with a banner crossing his chest