MIT Institute Archives & Special Collections. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. News Office (AC0069) From the Office of Public Relations Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Tel: UN4-6900, Ext. 2707 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE "New Art of Argentina, " an exhibition illustrating the evolution of Argentine art during the last three years, is showing at MI.T.'s Hayden Gallery and will continue through April 28. The exhibition was organized by Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, in association with the Visual Arts Center, Instituto Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires. Though the focal point of the new Argentine art is Buenos Aires, nine of the 30 artists in the exhibition currently live in Paris, three in New York and one in Rome. This migration has had the effect of accelerating the "internationalization" of Argentine art as well as contributing to the art of other countries. The strength of the new Argentine art became apparent at the Venice Biennale in 1962, and in December of 1963, when an exhibition of recent art from Argentina opened at the Musee National d'Art Moderne in Paris. Argentina is now the strongest contributor to contemporary art in Latin America. Argentine painting has taken various directions and they are typified in the exhibition under five general groupings: Geometricism is represented by the works of Luis Tomasello, Julio Le Parc, Hugo De Marco, Carlos Silva, Miguel Angel Vidal and Eduardo Mac-Entyre. The Geometrists have derived many of their ideas from the Concrete group of the forties but have become more independent of European concepts than the Concretists. Abstract painting and a growing interest in collage is found in the works of -more - Use copy created from Institute Archives record copy. © Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT Institute Archives & Special Collections. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. News Office (AC0069) 2. "New Art of Argentina"/M.I.T. Jose Antonio Fern'andez-Muro, Mario Pucciarelli, Miguel Ocampo, Kasuya Sakai and Sarah Grilo. The Abstract group, though not as predominant since 1962, is still in the main- stream of international art with their impulses toward the experimental and the new. Its members live outside Argentina and their canvases reveal forms not purposefully sought but developed f rom a "visionary view. " The lyric abstraction of the Phases group is reflected in the works of Osvaldo Borda, Martha Peluffo and Rogelio Polesello who reside in Buenos Aires. Their artistic theory is broad and less dogmatic than that of the emigre Abstract group and they paint images in a more defined manner. Neo-Figuration is represented by the works of R~mulo Maccio, Luis Felipe Noe, Jorge de la Vega, Ernesto Deira and Antonio Segui. These painters are freer in their deviation from conventional methods and media than the former groups. The Argentine equivalent of American style "Pop Art" and French "New Realism" is f ound in the works of Antonio Berni, Rub~n Santantonin, Marta Minujin, Carlos Squirru and Delia Sara Cancela. This vanguard group is divided into those who create objects out of common materials and those who employ assemblage media but concentrate on the act of painting itself more than on objects. Included in the exhibition is sculpture by Alicia Penalba, Marino Di Teana, Gyula Kosice, Libero Badii, Ennio lommi and Noem( Gerstein. Hayden Gallery is in the Library Building and admission is free to the public. The Gallery is open from 10 a.m. through 5 p.m. weekdays and 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. -30- April 5, 1965 Use copy created from Institute Archives record copy. © Massachusetts Institute of Technology .