Edgardo Antonio Vigo
Subtitle: usina permanente de caos creativo, obras 1953-1997
By: Gabriela Comte, edición general ; Fernando Montes Vera, coordinación editorial
Contributors: Vigo, Edgardo Antonio, 1928-1997; Museo de Arte Moderno (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Publisher: Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Buenos Aires
Language: spa
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9789876732833
Subjects: Exhibitions; Criticism and interpretation; Modern Art; Mail art
Other titles: Usina permanente de caos creativo, obras 1953-1997; Edgardo Antonio Vigo.; Edgardo Antonio Vigo. English.
Description: The exhibition curated by Sofia Dourron and Jimena Ferreiro presents more than four decades of artistic work of Edgardo Antonio Vigo (b. Argentina 1928-1997). The catalogue comprises small drawings, collages and objects, his prolific printed production (from WC to Hexágono 71), his series of actions named señalamierntosʺ (1968-1975), his works related to Mail Art and experimental poetry, his xylographic work and the documentation of his work when he was curator of the Expo/Internacional de Novísima Poesía (Instituto Torcuato di Tella , 1969). This is the first grand retrospective of the artist and represents "his invaluable contribution to the construction of the avant-garde languages in Argentina and the development of conceptualism in Latin America.ʺ Pages 13-14.
Notes: "Este libro fue publicado en ocasión de la exposición "Edgardo Antonio Vigo : usina permanente de caos creativo, obras 1953-1997" presentada en el Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires del 14 de mayo hasta el 5 de septiembre 2016."--Facing Title Page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 338-341).

Texts in Spanish and English.
Table of contents: title: Introducción = Introduction / Victoria Noorthoorn; title: El Centro de Arte Experimental Vigo = Centro de Arte Experimental Vigo / Ana María Gualtieri; title: Entre el caos y la burocracia: el legado de Edgardo Antonio Vigo = Amid chaos and bureaucracy: the legacy of Edgardo Antonio Vigo / Sofia Dourron & Jimena Ferreiro; title: La construccion creativa Edgardo Antonio Vigo en las filas de la vanguardia = The creative contradiction : Edgardo Antonio Vigo in the Avant-Garde / María Amalia García; title: Edgardo Antonio Vigo y la suspensión del poema = Edgardo Antonio Vigo and the suspension of the poem / Gonzalo Aguilar; title: Vigo editor = Vigo the publisher / Silvia Dolinko; title: Vigo: estrategias para la participación y experimentación = Vigo: strategies for participation and experimentation / Ana Bugnone; title: El arte correo como "necesidad necesaria": los escritos de Edgardo Antonio Vigo, 1975-1981 = Mail Art as a "necessay necessity": Edgardo Antonio Vigo's writtings, 1975-1981 / Vanessa K. Davisson; title: obras = Works; title: Los años 50: viaje a Europa y primeras obras = The 1950's: trip to Europe and first artworks; title: Reescrituras = Re-writing; title: Primeras ediciones = First editions; title: Diagonal Cero: de la revista al movimiento = Diagonal Cero: from the magazine to the movement; title: Hexágono 71 = Hexágono 71; title: Objetos = Objects; title: Señalamientos = Signllings; title: Museo de Xilografía; title: Comunicación a distancia = Remote communicatios; title: Biografía = Biography; title: Bibliografía = Biblography; title: Lista de obras = Exhibition checklist.