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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.
Barilari
Enrique Barilari
Untitled, 1961
Untitled, 1961
Enrique Barilari (Buenos Aires, 1927 - 2002) participated in the Informalist Movement exhibits with paintings made on planks of wood with harsh unions, covered with opaque and lumpy material. In 1961 he joined the Destructive Art Group, and two years later he participated in the Pintura espejismo (Mirage Painting) movement. He did not show his work again until the 1980’s, when he exhibited a series of figurative paintings.
