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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.
Roiger
Jorge Roiger
Untitled, 1959
Untitled, 1959
Jorge Roiger (Buenos Aires, 1934), held an individual exhibit of abstract photographs at the M.E.E.B.A. (Center of Students and Alumni of Fine Arts), in 1959. During this occasion he met Alberto Greco, who offered to include him in the second exhibit of the Informalist Group. His photographs reflected topics related to the Informalist matter: the accidents and curves of old murals, cracks, dirt spots and other characteristics of worn our surfaces. He took part in the exhibits of the New Art Association. As of 1959, he documented a great part of the Informalist experiences.
