Intercambio global
Subtitle: abstracción geométrica desde 1950 = A global exchange : geometric abstraction since 1950
Contributors: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Buenos Aires
Edition: Primera edición.
Publisher: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Buenos Aires
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Buenos Aires
Language: spa
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9789872845605
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Geometrical constructions in art; Exhibitions; Abstract Painting
Other titles: Global exchange :; Abstracción geométrica desde 1950
Description: MAJOR REFERENCE on Latin American abstract art that documents the developments in this movement over the past six decades. The catalogue begins with a review of the historic revolutionary developments of 1933, which established the basic language for abstraction to come. Joined by a detailed examination of the evolving formal and ideological considerations of ensuing artists and movements, with emphasis in crosscurrents of influence between artists on several continents. Selections of the MACBA collection that comprise the body of this catalogue offer a vivid testament to this exchange, encompassing the many permutations on perennial topics in geometric art. The Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) in Buenos Aires was specially created to house the private collection of Aldo Rubino of different variants of geometric abstract art. The collection includes works by Carlos Cruz Diez, Víctor Vasarely, Sarah Morris, Kenneth Noland, Julio Le Parc, Walter Leblanc and Alejandro Puente amongst others. "The museum begins its program of exhibitions with "Intercambio Global (Global Exchange) under curator Joe Houston. For this prestigious North American specialist, geometric abstraction embodies the ideals of the modern movement that, from the mid-twentieth century, has exhibited mutual interaction between people domestically and internationally. It is an art form that, in his judgment, "reaffirms the common notions of innovation, progress, and optimism that continue encouraging new and current abstraction.""-P. 12.
Notes: "This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition "Global Exchange : Geometric Abstraction Since 1950" organized by Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires. The exhibition curated by Joe Houston inaugurates the grand opening of the museum in September, 2012" -Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-293).

In Spanish and English.
Table of contents: title: Prólogo = Foreeword / Aldo Rubino; title: Presentación = Preface / Maria José Herrera; title: Introducción = Introduction / Joe Houston; title: Manifiesto concreto-Invención, 1948 = Concrete-invention manifesto / Juan Melé; title: Intercambio global = A global exchange / Joe Houston; title: I. Tomando forma: el desarrollo de la abstracción geométrica antes de 1950 = Taking shape: the development of geometric abstraction before 1950; title: II. La proliferación de las formas: la evolución de la abstracción geométrica después de 1950 = Proliferating forms: the evolution of geometric abstraction after 1950; title: Cuatro Temas: 1. Orden e inestabilidad: Contextualización de Avall, de Vasarely = Order and unrest: contextualizing Vasarely's Avall / Robert C. Morgan; title: 2. Efectos del color-La liberación del color de Carlos Cruz-Diez = Color effects: Carlos Cruz-Diez's liberation of color / Maria Constanza Cerullo; title: 3. Formas en expansión, dando forma al espacio: Sails Pride, de Kenneth Noland = Expansive forms, shaping space: Kenneth Noland, Sails Pride / Carter Ratcliff; title: 4. Nuevos trayectos-Sarah Morris: la abstracción como crítica cultural = New trajectories: Sarah Morris, abstraction as cultural critique / Frances Colpitt; title: Los artistas = The artists / Renata Cervetto, Sofía María Gismondi; title: Lista de obras = List of works; title: Autores = Authors.