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Informalism
in Argentina
in Argentina
by
Jorge López Anaya
August 2003
August 2003
Argentine Informalism incorporated processes which went against the “good taste” of the local practices. Based on the existential poetry of the time, through spontaneous gestures and the use of discarded material, it violated the limits of the traditional artistic genre and opened the road to the concept of the object, the installations and the art of action.
Wells
Luis Alberto Wells
Semáforo japonés, 1963
Semáforo japonés, 1963
of a table and stained with varnish. Invited to participate in the National Prize at the Torcuao Di Tella Sculpture Institute, he presented a group of objects: The Walkiria, Ascensor para el cadalso (Elevator for the scaffold), El fantasma doméstico (The domestic phantom), Octandre, Pieza en forma de escalera (A piece in form of stairs). The rest of the invited artists were: Naum Knop, Aldo Paparella, Claudio Girola (he did not accept), Enio Iommi (he did not accept), Noemí Gerstein, Gyula Kosice and Eduardo Sabelli. A year later, in 1963, he exhibited embossing and objects at the Bonino Gallery.
