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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.
Seguí
Antonio Seguí
De un corte, 1960
De un corte, 1960
After remaining for some time in Mexico, Antonio Seguí (Córdoba, 1934) settled in Buenos Aires towards the end of 1960. In 1961, he exhibited at the El Pórtico Gallery, a series of pictures he had made in Mexico. His Informalist paintings that depicted a certain American spirit were based on a free structuring of slightly irregular, superimposed forms. The matter, only oil without any additives, is animated with a superficial treatment that gives it a particular vibration, exalted by the bituminous glaze that covers the entire surface giving life to the low reds, ochre, earth tones, blacks and whites. The surface of the pictures appears porcelain like in drawn sectors by thick seams of thread that seem to hold together the adjacent planes.
