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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.
Maza
Fernando Maza
Untitled, 1960
Untitled, 1960
Fernando Maza (Buenos Aires, 1936) held an individual exhibit at the Rubbers Gallery in 1959, with a series of oils of sensitive geometry, with rectangles, circles and some irregular forms. It was all ploughed with free style graphisms that acted as a subtle network. On December 1959, he again held an individual exhibit at the Van Riel Gallery. Luis Felipe Noé wisely pointed out in the catalogue, that this painter was connected and at the same disconnected with the Informalism of the time. Further on he described some of the characteristics that distanced him from the poetry of the movement that he was a part of. “The luxurious and jeweled aspect of his paintings, yet clean and refined at the same time...” In 1961, he exhibited his impastos and collages at the Museum of Modern Art in Miami. The presentation of his work was done by Rafael Squirru.
