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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.
Méndez Casariego
Enrique Barilari (left)
and Florencio Méndez Casariego (right)
and Florencio Méndez Casariego (right)
Florencio Méndez Casariego (Buenos Aires, 1927 - 1986) participated in the exhibit held at the Pizarro Gallery, in 1959 with Pucciarelli, Greco and Estela Newberry. His Informalist painting was based on a continuous visual space and extreme silence. His canvases, almost monochromes, hardly allowed seeing any intervals in the background, where you could recognize the modulation of colors.
