The Centro de Arte y Comunicación (CAyC) was an arts organization based in

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, that was instrumental in creating an international arts movement based on the ideas of systems art within conceptual art.

History

In August 1968, CAyC was established as a multidisciplinary workshop by

Víctor Grippo Victor Grippo (10 May 1936 – February 2002) was an Argentine painter, engraver and sculptor, considered the father of conceptual art in Argentina. He was born in Junín, province of Buenos Aires, the elder of two sons of an Italian immigrant fat ...

, Jacques Bedel, Luis Fernando Benedit, Alfredo Portillos,

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, and Jorge González. Jorge Glusberg was the main leader associated with CAyC. In 1971, the "Grupo de los Trece" was created by Polish theater director

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. There were 13 artists who made up the group: Jacques Bedel, Luis Fernándo Benedit, Gregorio Dujovny, Carlos Ginsburg,

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, Jorge González Mir, Vicente Lucas Marotta, Luis Pazos, Alfredo Portillos, Juan Carlos Romero, Julio Teich, and Horacio Zabala. Additional artists who later joined were Leopoldo Maler and

. In 1975, the group were formally named the "Grupo CAyC." The work was centered around the concept of "Arte de Sistemas" or

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, as well as cybernetics in Argentina. In 1972, the "Scuola de Altos Estudios del CAyC" aka "Escuela de Altos Estudios" / "Escuela de Altos Estudios del Centro de Arte y Comunicación" was founded. In the seventies CAyC became an international center for the Pop art-culture and the famous Museo de Arquitectura. Well-known teachers at CAyC have included

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and

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. From 1968 until his death in early 2012,

was the Director of CAyC.

Selected exhibitions

* 1972: Art Systems in Latin America, Centro de Arte y Comunicación (Buenos Aires, Argentina) * 1973: Antonio Dias, Centro de Arte y Comunicación (Buenos Aires, Argentina) * 1973: Arte Contemporânea Brasileira, Centro de Arte y Comunicación (Buenos Aires, Argentina) * 1973: Expo-Projeção 73, Centro de Arte y Comunicación (Buenos Aires, Argentina) * 1974: Festival Experimental, Centro de Arte y Comunicación (Buenos Aires, Argentina) * 1974: Vanguardia Brasileña, Centro de Arte y Comunicación (Buenos Aires, Argentina) * 1974/1975: Art & Systems in Latin America, ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, Argentina) * 1975: Julio Plaza, Centro de Arte y Comunicación (Buenos Aires, Argentina) * 1975: Regina Silveira, Centro de Arte y Comunicación (Buenos Aires, Argentina) * 1975: Bernardo Krasniansky, Centro de Arte y Comunicación (Buenos Aires, Argentina) * 1976: 20 Artistas Brasileños, Centro de Arte y Comunicación (Buenos Aires, Argentina) * 1977: Regina Silveira, Centro de Arte y Comunicación (Buenos Aires, Argentina) * 1977: Image and Words, Centro de Arte y Comunicación (Buenos Aires, Argentina) * 1979: Ocupación Topológica, Centro de Arte y Comunicación (Buenos Aires, Argentina) * 1980: Sérgio de Camargo, Centro de Arte y Comunicación (Buenos Aires, Argentina) * 1985: Nueva Pintura Brasileña, Centro de Arte y Comunicación (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

References

External links

Grupo CAyC
at Centro Virtual de Arte Argentino *
Centro de Arte y Comunicación
at

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Centro de Arte y Comunicación (CAyC)
at University of Iowa Libraries – finding aid {{Authority control Culture of Argentina Pop art Art movements 1968 in Argentina

History

Selected exhibitions

References

Further reading

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