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  • Tenemos voz
    Grupo 8 (Uruguay)
    1959
    This document is a statement issued by the Montevideo-based GRUPO 8. Although diverse, all of the group members produced “abstract art”; in the late fifties, it was a sort of avant-garde functional to local industry insofar as the group connected [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1313144

  • Vida cultural en la URSS
    1934
    The synopsis and annotations in English are coming soon [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1313125

  • Reflexiones
    Torres-García, Joaquín, 1874-1949
    1943
    “Reflexiones” is just that, a collection of thoughts related to the essence of the constructivist doctrine and the concrete strategies to be adopted in an environment that was not particularly receptive to the doctrine. The intent is to [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1263191

  • El constructivismo : muerte y nacimiento de un momento histórico
    Castillo, Guido, 1922-2010
    1943
    In this brief article, written in a colloquial, essay style, Guido Castillo expresses the hope that the essence of modern art will be reborn from its own ashes in both the emblematic figure of Joaquín Torres-García and in Universalismo [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1263176

  • Universalidad del constructivismo
    Lanza Muñoz, Francisco
    1943
    The article “Universalidad del Constructivismo” is essentially a monologue about a painting by Joaquín Torres García. The author of the article, Francisco Lanza Muñoz, muses on the subject of abstraction and its metaphysical underpinnings, [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1263161

  • Nosotros y nuestro ambiente
    San Vicente, J. Luis
    1943
    In this article, which appeared in the final number of the magazine Círculo y Cuadrado (December 1943), J. Luis San Vicente discusses the spirit of cooperation among members of the TTG (Taller Torres-García). The writer also provides a [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1263146

  • Nuestro arte constructivo y las teorías cubistas
    Ragni, Héctor, 1897-1952
    1938
    This article by Héctor Ragni—one of Joaquín Torres García’s “devout” disciples—reveals the author’s profound understanding of the maestro’s doctrinaire corpus of constructive universalism [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1263131

  • Aquí, en Montevideo
    Torres-García, Joaquín, 1874-1949
    1938
    In this brief essay Joaquín Torres-García outlines the goals he developed at the AAC (Asociación de Arte Constructivo) and explained in the association’s magazine. He describes the difficulties he had in trying to make [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1263116

  • El arte naturalista y el arte geométrico
    Torres-García, Joaquín, 1874-1949
    1937
    This article, “El arte naturalista y el arte geométrico,” includes a discussion of Joaquín Torres-García’s main theoretical ideas. Here he restates his metaphysically-inspired philosophical approach and his [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1263101

  • El hombre, una incógnita
    Carrel, Alexis, 1873-1944
    1937
    This is an excerpt from the book L’Homme, cet inconnu [Man, the Unknown] by the French scientist Alexis Carrel, which appeared in issue Number 5 of Círculo y Cuadrado, the magazine published by the Asociación de Arte Constructivo [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1263085

  • Nacionalismo y Folklore
    Varèse, Edgard, 1883-1965
    1937
    The author of this document, Edgar Varèse, criticizes the exploitation of folklore by “highbrow music.” He agrees that the indigenous spirit of ancient cultures can certainly be a source of inspiration for artists, but considers its manipulation [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1263070

  • El plano en que deseamos situarnos
    1936
    “The plane on which we should place ourselves” is one of the most synthetic statements Joaquín Torres García makes in his lectures on the theory and practice of “modern classicism.” In it he casts some doubt on the very idea of “modernity [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1263054

  • Necesidad de agruparse para la formación de un medio artístico
    Arzadun, Carmelo de, 1888-1968
    1936
    Carmelo de Arzadun stresses the importance of creating intellectual groups in Montevideo, explaining that their conversations about their various aesthetic preferences would enrich the debate in local art circles. On the whole, the article does not [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1263023

  • Por qué pertenezco a la asociación de arte constructivo
    Ragni, Héctor, 1897-1952
    1936
    In this article, the Argentinean-Uruguayan artist Héctor Ragni expresses his admiration for Joaquín Torres-García’s ideas and work. Ragni lauds the maestro’s motivational skills and recalls the first time he saw his [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1263007

  • La presente revista
    Torres-García, Joaquín
    1936
    Joaquín Torres-García wrote this editorial for Círculo y Cuadrado, the journal published by the Asociación de Arte Constructivo de Montevideo that seeks to follow in the footsteps of Cercle et Carré, the magazine co [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1262991

  • Urucchio & Troncone
    1994
    Mario Sagradini discusses the connections Uricchio (the pseudonym used by Rodolfo Troncone) may have had with artists who were involved in the emergence of the Arte Concreto — Invención movement in 1944 (which was originally based in Buenos Aires [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1262975

  • Planeta Video. Muestra Germano-Rioplatense de Video Creación
    1992
    In this report, issued in 1992 by NUVA (Núcleo Uruguayo de Videoarte), the Uruguayan video artist Fernando Álvarez Cozzi discusses the origins of latent cultural identities in Latin America and explores the specific nature of video art in Uruguay [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1258641

  • El video en los años 80. La estética de la pluralidad
    In this report the video artist Fernando Álvarez Cozzi reviews and contextualizes the phenomenon of video art in Uruguay and, more broadly, in Latin America. He notes that, in this field, Uruguay lags behind other countries in the region. However, [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1258602

  • Videos en Banda
    1993
    This document is the catalogue to the exhibition Videos en Banda (1993), the third edition of an event dedicated to video art from Uruguay and abroad organized by the Núcleo Uruguayo de Videoarte. Held at the Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales de [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1258510

  • La condición video. 25 años de videoarte en el Uruguay
    2007
    The catalogue La condición del video. 25 años de videoarte en el Uruguay provides a review of the major figures in the history of Uruguayan video art and describes the development of the movement in this region of Latin America from the time of its [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1258411

  • Tradición y arte de vanguardia I
    1962
    In this text, Carlos Herrera Mac Lean, a member of the Comisión Nacional de Bellas Artes since the time of its founding in 1936, defends Uruguayan figurative art and opposes the inclination toward abstraction. He looks specifically at the case of [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1250816

  • Happening
    Polleri, Amalia, 1909-1996
    1969
    The article by Amalia Polleri analyzes the process of integrating the happenings of Uruguay within an artistic context and referencing the interventions by another Uruguayan artist, Teresa Vila. Polleri points to the trend of Latin American [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1250362

  • Acción para meditar
    Torrens, María Luisa
    1969
    This article analyzes the varied impact generated by the happenings in Europe and the United States and the repercussions on those taking place in Latin America, highlighting the ethical and political particularities of the latter. In this case, it [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1250336

  • La magia de la voz
    1966
    In this article, art critic María Luisa Torrens explains the importance of Uruguayan performer Teresa Vila’s “actions with theme” as demonstrating her commitment as an artist at a juncture of intense social violence in Uruguay. Vila engaged [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1250311

  • Las veredas de la Patria Chica. Exposición homenaje a Teresa Vila
    2009
    This brief catalogue essay is by Haroldo González, the curator of Las veredas de la Patria Chica, the exhibition that was organized as a tribute to Teresa Vila. The fact that González was an important figure among Uruguayan conceptual artists in [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1249835

  • Apollonio ¿Libertad para qué?
    1964
    Pablo Mañé Garzón discusses some of the thoughts expressed by Umbro Apollonio, the director of the Biennale di Venezia’s Historic Archive of Contemporary Art. The Uruguayan critic refers specifically to the concept of “freedom” that [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1248811

  • Los muros de Testoni
    1962
    In this article the critic Fernando García Esteban honors the photographer Alfredo Testoni, who pioneered an “abstract” painting approach to photography during the hey-day of the abstract and informalist movements in Uruguay [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1248786

  • [Letter] 1916 Marzo 15 [to] José Enrique Rodó
    Torres-García, Joaquín
    1916
    In this letter, Joaquín Torres-García declares his intention to promote contemporary Uruguayan art to European audiences. The objective is to create a program designed to provide scholarships or grants from the Uruguayan government for [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1247461

  • [Letter] 1916 Junio 1, Terrasa, España [to] José Enrique Rodó
    Torres-García, Joaquín
    1916
    This letter from Joaquín Torres García to his Uruguayan compatriot, the renowned writer José Enrique Rodó, suggests that both men agreed on the need to encourage the emerging art in their country by exposing young Uruguayan artists to what was [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1247430

  • [Letter] 1915 Diciembre 1, Terrasa, España [to] José Enrique Rodó
    Torres-García, Joaquín
    1915
    In this letter to the writer José Enrique Rodó, Joaquín Torres García discusses the affinity they share for the Greco-Latin tradition, and expresses his wish to be in touch with contemporary Uruguayan art because, though living in Spain at the [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1247404

  • Torres García en Nueva York
    Camnitzer, Luis
    1970
    Luis Camnitzer discusses Joaquín Torres García’s exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and assesses reactions to his work among North American audiences and intellectuals. The Uruguayan artist and critic, who lives in New [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1247361

  • Arte correo en el Uruguay
    Padín, Clemente, 1939-
    1985
    From a Uruguayan perspective, visual artist and performer Clemente Padín discusses the importance of Mail Art in Latin America, as well as the problems it faces. In this article, he explains the origins of Mail Art as a movement for international [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1247293

  • La rebelión del objeto
    Torrens, María Luisa
    1967
    This article describes the 1967 exhibition about objective art held in Montevideo at the General Electric Institute that included work by Carlos and Enrique Fernández Broglia, Amalia Polleri, Nelson Ramos, Washington Barcala, and Luis Alberto Solari [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1247264

  • Lo que significa en Nuestro Medio el Salón de Pintura General Electric.
    1963
    This essay is about the article describing the opening of the Primer Salón de Pintura General Electric [The First General Electric Art Exhibition Hall] in October of 1963, highlighting the work of IGE (Instituto General Electric [General Electric [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1244873

  • IGE: Ideas en Marcha
    Mañe Garzón, Pablo, 1921-2004
    1965
    This essay about the interview by Pablo Mañé Garzón with Ángel Kalenberg, the director of the IGE (Instituto General Electric de Montevideo [General Electric Institute of Montevideo), discussing the programs carried out by the institution that [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1244837

  • Vitrina insólita para una insólita jornada
    1964
    The article describes a cultural event held at the IGE (Instituto General Electric [General Electric Institute]) in Montevideo where the performances by the visual artists and the exhibition on the industrial artistic works were linked through rather [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1244817

  • El II Salón de Pintura Moderna del Instituto "General Electric"
    1965
    This essay is on the informative publication by the newspaper El Plata on the II Salón de Pintura Moderna [Second Hall of Modern Art], organized in Montevideo by the IGE (Instituto General Electric [General Electric Institute]). It is with regard to [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1244790

  • Tucumán Arde. Paradigma de acción cultural revolucionaria
    Padín, Clemente, 1939-
    1971
    For the first time in Montevideo in 1971, three years after the artistically-political transformative event, called Tucumán Arde, took place in Rosario and Buenos Aires, Argentina, a comprehensive, all inclusive account was published. The one who [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1243207

  • [Manifiesto Grupo Brasileño Maldoror]
    1967
    The magazine Los Huevos del Plata founded in Montevideo by Clemente Padín, published the manifesto of the Brazilian group Maldoror that politically identified itself with revolutionary and antimilitaristic principles that were plainly active during [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1243177

  • [Somos mutantes, es decir, vividos...]
    Padín, Clemente, 1939-
    1966
    In 1965, the original manifesto of the magazine Los Huevos del Plata was an avant-garde platform advocating against Uruguayan cultural dominance by the so-called Generación del ’45, a group of writers who exerted and promoted their strong [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1243157

  • Hachepiencia
    Padín, Clemente, 1939-; Paz, Hector; Linares, Juan José
    1966
    This essay is on “Hachepiencia,” the manifesto produced by the Uruguayan group Los hachepientos, which was formed by Clemente Padín, Héctor Paz, and Juan José Linares. The principal objectives of the group were outlined in the manifesto [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1243133

  • Buscando la identidad : encuentro latinoamericano de artes plasticas
    1990
    In this essay, various aspects of the II Encontro Latino-americano de Artes Plásticas [Second Latin American Meeting of the Visual Arts] held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, are summarized, emphasizing the performing artistic practices and the need to [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1242413

  • Un memorial para América Latina : Clemente Padín en E.E.U.U.
    Larnaudie, Olga
    1990
    This essay is about an invitation that was extended to Clemente Padín by the Yellow Springs Institute (USA) to perform at the gathering of Latin American artists held in October of 1989, resulting from information on the event. The artist, in an [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1242169

  • [Letter] 1981, Julio 21, São Paulo, Brasil [to] Clemente Padín
    Zanini, Walter, 1925-
    1981
    This is the Brazilian art critic and curator Walter Zanini’s official invitation to Clemente Padín, asking him to take part in the XVI Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, in 1981. The document created a “diplomatic” incident that was solved [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1242138

  • Se nos despertó el indio : Bienal municipal : segunda parte
    Torres, Alfredo, 1941-2018
    1992
    This is a critical review of the I Bienal de Artes Plásticas that was held at the Subte Municipal de Montevideo, an exhibition space in the capital city of Uruguay, in 1992. The author explicitly acknowledges Clemente Padín for his presentation of [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1242113

  • La performance desde la perspectiva Latinoamericana
    Padín, Clemente, 1939-
    2005
    In this article Clemente Padín discusses the historical development of performance art in Europe and in North America. He also refers to specific examples to describe the nature of this action art as practiced in Latin America. He believes [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1240733

  • Arte postal en Latinoamérica
    Padín, Clemente, 1939-
    1988
    Clemente Padín describes and discusses his vision as a creator and promoter of Mail Art in the 1970s in Uruguay. He approaches the subject from the broad perspective of the movement’s worldwide activities, providing a comparative analysis that [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1240703

  • Dictadura o clamoreo en el Uruguay
    Padín, Clemente, 1939-
    1994
    Here Clemente Padín sketches a retrospective of his life as an artist—he was an experimental poet, graphic designer, performer, and networker—during the Uruguayan military-civilian dictatorship (that lasted from the June 27, 1973 coup d’état [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1240688

  • Arte de Acción en Latinoamérica : cuerpo político y estrategias de resistencia
    De Gracia, Silvio, 1973-
    2010
    In this essay, critic and performer Silvio de Gracia explains the importance of and provides context for “action art” in Latin America. He demonstrates its specificity in the region, showing how it differs from similar tendencies in Europe and [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1240673

  • La nueva poesía y las redes alternativas : entrevista a Clemente Padín
    Nogueira, Fernanda, 1982-; Davis, Fernando
    2010
    The art critics Fernando Davis and Fernanda Nogueira interview the Uruguayan artist Clemente Padín. The conversation focuses mainly on the artist’s literary work, especially his visual poetry which launched a literary and aesthetic revolutionary [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1240658