The profile of Latin American abstract art in North America and
Europe has dramatically increased over the past decade or so,
thanks in large part to the activities of the Patricia Phelps de
Cisneros Collection. However, this is the first publication to
specifically address the Concrete and Neoconcrete movements,
spanning the 1930s through to the 1970s, and focusing on centers of
activity throughout Latin America, in cities such as Montevideo,
Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Caracas. In these
decades, artists such as Lygia Clark, Helio Oiticica, Lygia Pape,
Jesus Soto, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Judith Lauand, Geraldo de Barros,
Hermelindo Fiaminghi, Luiz Sacilotto, Willys de Castro and Ferreira
Gullar infused European Concrete art with fresh energy and warmth,
extending it into the realms of performance and interactive
sculpture (as seen in the works of Clark, Pape and Oiticica). The
book organizes this rich range of work into five thematic sections:
"Geometry," "Illusion," "Dialogue," "Vibration" and "Universalism."
Accompanying an exhibition at the Reina Sofia, "Concrete Invention"
also includes texts by several of the artists; an essay by sound
artist and scholar Steve Roden; a questionnaire on the legacy of
these movements answered by Luis Camnitzer, Jesus Carillo, Sofia
Hernandez Chong Cuy and Ana Longoni; and a series of
geometric-abstract gatefolds designed for the catalogue by Jose
Leon Cerrillo.
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