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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.
López
Olga López
Mural, 1960
Mural, 1960
The works Olga López presented (Buenos Aires, 1938) at the Informalist Movement exhibition were based on a pictorial substance of a variety of qualities, with contrasts between the opaque and the bright, all united with a tone of extremely low registers. Over the sinuous surfaces, the graffitis showed the spontaneity of the trace. She also exhibited embossing over knitted wire, newspapers, cardboards and thick paint impastos. In 1961, she exhibited at the Witcomb Gallery the works which continued to dominate the matter: embossing, graffiti, opaqueeness and brightness. A year later she held another individual exhibit at the Lirolay Gallery.
