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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.
Paparella
Aldo Paparella
Untitled, c. 1959-1960
Untitled, c. 1959-1960
Enrique Romano and Aldo Paparella are two sculptors that worked on the trend of Informalism, but with a very particular use of Informalism. They were not interested in the traditional materials, but in discarded material and degraded metals. They used heteroclite garbage, metal scrap, the fragments from industry and material worn down by cuts and hits.
Aldo Paparella (Minturno, Latina province, Italy, 1920 - Buenos Aires, 1977), exhibited in 1960 at the Van Riel Gallery under the title of 20 sugerencias (20 Suggestions). They were aluminum sculptures of which the material was subjected to the most brutal tortures and perforations. The metal seemed to have been hammered, twisted and cut as if trying to capture the instant of the making process. Other pieces were made of soldered iron scraps. In 1963 he made some wooden crates with diverse material and painted in black.
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