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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.
Di Benedetto
Noemí Di Benedetto
Collage in red, 1960
Collage in red, 1960
Noemí Di Benedetto (San Andrés de Giles, Buenos Aires, 1930) held an individual exhibit on May, 1961 at the Peuser Gallery, and at the Lirolay Gallery in November. Between 1960 and 1964 she used sacking, pieces of cloth, wood, discarded cardboard as well as harsh and throw-away material that she subjected to all kinds of tortures by ripping them apart, burning, hitting and staining them. In 1964 she worked on a series of objects constructed with wooden crates in disuse that looked like the remains of an unknown disaster. The objects were almost totally consumed by flames, giving the impression of a tragic and messy site. In 1980 she returned to painting.
