As proof of the importance of the magazine Arquitectura México, Mathias Goeritz (1915-1990), with his “Warning” in the Art Section of this issue, presents the most noteworthy artistic trends. Thus, writer Ida Rodríguez [Prampolini] introduces us to Len Lye, a New Zealand artist, one of the best representatives of kinetic art applied to sculpture, who searched from a young age for his own theory in order to advance his artistic production. Rodolfo Caltofen, in turn, comments on the work of Alicia Penalba, an Argentine sculptress who presents some works within the trend of international abstraction, shown before at the Galerie Claude Bernard in Paris. Caltofen, to conclude, writes about the exhibition Aspectos de la escultura americana [Aspects of American Sculpture] presented in that place and confirms that, based on what is to be seen in both exhibitions, the sculpture of that moment is not as desperately bad as the painting.
The director of the magazine Arquitectura México is the architect and urban designer Mario Pani (1911-1993) and in charge of the Art Section is Goeritz himself. This is issue number 10 of the Art Section.
The 1957 photograph on the cover, Cadena Marítima [Maritime Chain] is by Marianne [Gast de] Goeritz.