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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.
Minujín
Marta Minujín
Testimony for a young tomb, c. 1961
Testimony for a young tomb, c. 1961
Marta Minujín (Buenos Aires, 1941) exhibited her paintings individually at the Lirolay Gallery in 1961. At this time she presents cardboard pieces painted with pyroxylin lacquer to which she glued boots and a holster, under the name of A las órdenes mi general (At your service, my General). That same year she was part of the Argentine entry to the Second Bienal of Young Artists in Paris. In 1960 she won a scholarship from the National Arts Fund which allowed her to move to Paris where she took part in the Pablo [Curatella] Manes and 30 Argentines of the New Generation exhibit. A second scholarship, granted by the government of France, prolonged her stay until 1963. She participated in various collective exhibitions in this same city. She made friends with artists from the Nouveau Realisme and other tendencies as well; among them Niki de Saint-Phalle, Jean Tinguely, Christo and Lourdes Castro. She also reunited with Alberto Greco. She started making shelter-like structures, covered with mattresses found among the garbage of the nearby Parisian hospitals.
