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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.
Romano
Enrique Romano
La nave, n/d
La nave, n/d
Enrique Romano (Buenos Aires, 1923), a painter in his beginnings, discovered sculpturing in 1960, through the Informalist experience. Acting in the same direction as the painters of that tendency, he used pieces of mechanical machines, metal scrap, all soldered with visible seams. His whole work was made of discarded material, mostly coming from the worn out pieces of the metal industry. In a series of sculptures, he only used old, but bright chromate car fenders. He exhibited his first sculpture in 1960, at the Stimulus Association of Fine Arts. He also held a decidedly Informalist individual exhibit at the Pizarro Gallery, in 1961.
