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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.
García Uriburu
Nicolás García Uriburu
Mil años, 1960
Mil años, 1960
Nicolás García Uriburu (Buenos Aires, 1937) was an architect who graduated from the University of Buenos Aires. He participated in the Informalist tendency with a series of paintings of thick impasto, circular shapes, nervy tracings and solid drippings, coated with what resembled bright lacquer. On occasions, his canvases remit to the visual quality of intense leather. It was a matter painting lacking the austerity, sobriety, drama or any other extreme characteristic of the Informalists. He exhibited them for the first time in November, 1960, at the Lirolay Gallery. In 1962 he exhibited the same pieces at the Antonio Souza Gallery, in Mexico. His path through this inclination was brief, as he quickly aligned with the pop fad, and in 1968 he finally leaned towards Land art.
