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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.
Torras
Silvia Torras
Untitled, c. 1962
Untitled, c. 1962
Silvia Torras (Barcelona, España, 1936 - México D.C., 1970) exhibited for the first time in 1960 at the Peuser Gallery, simultaneously with Kemble. The twelve pieces exhibited, which were titled with the names of one or two colors - Verde amarillo (Green yellow), Azul y ocre (Blue and ochre), Naranja (Orange), Blanco (White), etc, possess clear references to nature and organic vegetation, a theme that differentiated her from the rest of the Informalists. Her canvases always allow seeing some traces of the vital rhythms and the intricate relationship between plants and trees. They are usually pieces of great dimensions that indirectly reflect a vigorous “abstract expressionism”.
