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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.
Peluffo
Martha Peluffo
Untitled, 1958
Untitled, 1958
Martha Peluffo (Buenos Aires, 1931 - 1979), exhibited paintings of free abstract form at the Salon of the New Art Association in 1956, where she decidedly leaned towards the esthetics of blotching. The entire surface of her pictures appeared covered by stains that were distributed as if they were constellations or groupings, on occasions with more dense and visually heavy areas. At the Phases Group exhibit, she presented paintings with less emphasis on stains and visual textures, leaning towards a vision closer to Abstract Surrealism. In 1959 she exhibited at the Pizarro Gallery, a group of paintings that represented slightly wrinkled canvasses predominated by sober colors, almost of neutral form.
