Presentation of the São Paulo Bienal
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Andrea Giunta (The University of Texas at Austin) Introduction 8 Jacqueline Barnitz (Emeritus Art History Professor, The University Of Texas At Austin, Keynote of the 1st. International Research Forum for Graduate Students and Emerging Scholars) Packaging Latin American Art in New York in the 1960s and 1970s 27 The Invention of Latin America: Ideological Maps Joaquin Barriendos (New York University) The Reinvention of Latin America as a Geo-Aesthetic Region. Area Studies, Geopolitics, and Museographic Imaginaries 45 Mariana Marchesi (Universidad de Buenos Aires) Las redes culturales latinoamericanas y los debates del arte revolucionario (1970-1973) 62 Michael G Wellen (The University of Texas at Austin) The Threats of an Archive: The José Gómez Sicre Papers and the Risks of Writing a Latin American Art History 84 Theresa Avila (University of New Mexico) Error of omission: Inserting Central American Art into the discourse of Latin American Art History 95 Fabiana Serviddio (Universidad de Buenos Aires) The Symposium of Latin American Art and Literature held at Austin, Texas in 1975 120 Conflictive Borders/Conflictive Nations Ila N Sheren (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) From the Trojan Horse to the Human Cannonball: InSite at the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1997-2005 139 Ruth Estévez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México/Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil) Strategies and Repercussions of the InSite Cross-Border Cooperation Event in the Current Artistic Production at the Border 154 Natalia de la Rosa de la Rosa (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) Beyond Nationalism. Diego Rivera and the Artistic Creation ‘For Peace’ 164 Dafne Cruz Porchini (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México/Museo Nacional de Arte) Los caminos de una colección nacional tardía (1950-1982) 183 Melissa Geppert (University of Minnesota) Cannibalizing the Favela: Cannibal Legacies and the Politics of Collaboration in Dias and Reidweg's 'FunkStaden' 199 Daniel Montero (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) Suplemento: contra una dialéctica positiva entre la institucionalidad 1 y la alternatividad en el arte mexicano de los años 90 215 Transnational Interactions I Katherine Brodbeck (New York University) “A Third Way”: Information (1970) and the International Exhibition of Contemporary Art from Latin America 228 Isabel Plante (Universidad de Buenos Aires) Imágenes Cruzadas. Intelectuales y arte entre París y Buenos Aires durante los años ’60 246 Cecilia Braschi (Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti) Paris-Buenos Aires, and Return: an International Path for Abstract and Kinetic Art 265 Stefano Collicelli Cagol (Royal College of Art London) A History of Entanglements: Latin America at the Venice Biennale in the 1970s 275 Conflictive Abstractions Mariola Alvarez (University of California, San Diego) The Remaking of Art: Neoconcretismo and the Argentine Connection 293 Cristina Rossi (Universidad de Buenos Aires) Pasos Cordilleranos. The Argentinean - Chilean Exchanges around Abstract Art 307 Susanne Neubauer (Universität Zürich) 1959-1968: Lygia Clark and the Brazilian Avant-garde in Germany and Switzerland 326 Ana Maria Franco (New York University) The Magic of a Traffic Light: Edgar Negret’s Magic Machines 340 Abigail Winograd (The University of Texas at Austin) The Trauma of Dislocation and the Development of Alternative Abstractions in Latin America: Renegotiations of Space, Experience, and Self in the Work of Gego and Mira Schendel 362 María Amalia García (Universidad de Buenos Aires) South American Readings and Interventions on the Modern Architectural Model. The Trip of Max Bill to Brazil 375 Tatiane de Oliveira Elias (Staatliche Akademieder Bildenden Künste Stuttgart) Concretismo no Brasil 387 Transnational Interactions II Adele Nelson (New York University) Creating History: The Definition of the Avant-Garde at the Second São Paulo Bienal 398 Ana Cândida de Avelar (Universidade de São Paulo) 2 A Controversial Juryman: Alfred Barr Jr. at the 4th São Paulo Biennial of 1957 431 Viviana Usubiaga (Universidad de Buenos Aires) Between Regionalism and Internationalism: Definitions of Latin American Art at the 1985 São Paulo International Biennale 451 Vinicius Spricigo (Universidade de São Paulo) From Artistic Internationalism to Cultural Globalization: Contributions for a Critical Gaze on the Bienal de São Paulo’s Politics of Representation 466 Patricia Ruiz-Healy (The University of Texas at Austin) La Ruta de la Amistad: International Monumental Sculpture Collaborative Project for the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City 476 Contacts and Collaborations: Mail Art and Print Culture Vanessa Davidson (New York University) From Margin to Margin and Back Again: Paulo Bruscky, Leonhard Frank Duch, and Edgardo Antonio Vigo’s Mail Art Practice 492 Susannah Gilbert (University of Essex) Between Intimacy and Instrumentality: the Genesis of Mail Art Exhibitions in Latin America 505 Talía Bermejo (Universidad de Buenos Aires) Cabalgata de Posguerra. The Cultural Magazine as a Promotion and Cultural Link Agent 518 Abigail McEwen (New York University) Arts Magazines and the Cosmopolitan Vision of Cuban Modernism, 1952- 1961 533 Doris Maria-Reina Bravo (The University of Texas at Austin) Mediating the Government and the Art World: Plástica magazine and their Didactic Project 545 One Artist, One Work: A Place Among Others Paula Braga (Universidade de São Paulo/Galeria Nara Roesler) Hélio Oiticica’s New Yorkaises: Book, Web, and Mental Structure 566 Dan Quiles (The City University of New York) Publicity as an Art Form: David Lamelas and the Conceptual Art Networks in the 1970s 575 Sergio Martins (University College London) A Not-So-Foreign View: Antonio Dias in Milan 587 Tiago Machado (Universidade de São Paulo) As neovanguardas no Brasil: Daniel Buren nas Bienais de São Paulo em 1983 e 1985 617 3 Luke Skrebowski (Middlesex University) Creleisureas Critique? Reading Oiticica with Marcuse and Marighela 633 Uses of the International Olga Fernández (Royal College of Art London) Conceptualism, a Historic Necessity for Latin American Art? 650 Gabriela Piñero (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) Estrategias de inserción y politícas de visibilidad: el paradigma conceptual 664 Gina McDaniel Tarver (Texas State University) Bernado Salcedo’s Internationalist Double-Speak 680 Andrés Montenegro Rosero (University of Essex) A Methodological Experiment 700 Paulina Varas (Universitat de Barcelona) NETWORK-S, SITUATION-S and PLACE-S in Chilean Art 704 Lisa Mosier (Tulane University) Transnational Encounter/Transdisciplinary Form: The Centro de Arte y Comunicación and Conceptualism in Art and Architecture 720 Sites of Resistance Erin Aldana (The University of Texas at Austin) Transnational Interpretations of the Local: the Problem of Abertura-Period Art in Brazil 734 Elize Mazadiego (University Of California, San Diego) Imagined Encounters: Exporting a Situationist Model of Revolution and Aesthetics to Latin America 754 André Luiz Mesquita (Universidade de São Paulo) Aimaginação coletiva do espaço social 771 Ines Linke (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais) The Impropriety of Public Art 790 Guilherme Wisnik (Universidade de São Paulo) Brutalism and Tropicalism 805 Sara Angel Guerrero-Rippberger (University of the Arts London, Camberwell College of Arts) Post- 9/11 Public Terror in Latin American Art 820 4 Forum 2009 Publication Intro It is with great pleasure that we present this publication, a compilation of the papers delivered at Transnational Latin American Art from 1950 to the Present Day, the 1st International Research Forum for Graduate Students and Emerging Scholars held at The University of Texas at Austin from 6-8 November 2009. The 2009 Forum was a collaboration between The Permanent Seminar in Latin American Art (The University of Texas at Austin) and Meeting Margins (University of Essex and University of the Arts London), conceived by Andrea Giunta (The University of Texas at Austin), Roberto Tejada (The University of Texas at Austin), Michael Asbury (University of the Arts London), María Iñigo Clavo (University of Essex), Valerie Fraser (University of Essex), Isobel Whitelegg (University of the Arts London), with the collaboration of Alexis Salas, the support of Luis Adrián Vargas-Santiago and Abigail Winograd as well as Amethyst Beaver, Paula Bossa, Doris Maria-Reina Bravo, Nisa Mason, Mari Rodríguez, and Michael G. Wellen. The University of Texas at Austin provided the administrative support of Jose Barroso, Amanda Butterfield, and Irene Roderick; The University of Essex that of Ian Dudley. The Forum was made possible in part by College of Fine Arts, Department of Art and Art History, Graduate School, and The Permanent Seminar in Latin American Art at The University of Texas at Austin; University of Essex; University of the Arts London; Meeting Margins; Arts & Humanities Research Council; TrAIN (Research Center for Transnational Art-Identity-Nation); Fundación PROA; Diane and Bruce Halle Collection; Centro Cultural de España en Buenos Aires; Fundación Telefónica; Fundación Espigas; ArteBA; Gustavo Bruzzone; Gabriel Werthein; and Mrs. and Mr. Cambiaso. The presenters at the 2009 Forum were selected by an academic committee composed of Michael Asbury, María Iñigo Clavo, Valerie Fraser, Andrea Giunta, Roberto Tejada, and Isobel Whitelegg. The 2009 Forum was a meeting of scholars of modern and contemporary Latin American art from around the world, providing an opportunity for researchers from this diverse and growing field to come together and thus creating opportunities