Centro de Arte y Comunicación

The Centro de Arte y Comunicación (CAyC) was an arts organization based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, that was instrumental in creating an international arts movement based on the ideas of systems art within conceptual art.

History

In August 1968, CAyC was established as a multidisciplinary workshop by Víctor Grippo, Jacques Bedel, Luis Fernando Benedit, Alfredo Portillos, Clorindo Testa, Jorge Glusberg, and Jorge González. Jorge Glusberg was the main leader associated with CAyC.

In 1971, the "Grupo de los Trece" was created by Polish theater director Jerzy Grotowski. There were 13 artists who made up the group: Jacques Bedel, Luis Fernándo Benedit, Gregorio Dujovny, Carlos Ginsburg, Jorge Glusberg, Victor Grippo, Jorge González Mir, Vicente Lucas Marotta, Luis Pazos, Alfredo Portillos, Juan Carlos Romero, Julio Teich, and Horacio Zabala. Additional artists who later joined were Leopoldo Maler and Clorindo Testa. In 1975, the group were formally named the "CAyC Group."

The work was centered around the concept of "Arte de Sistemas" or Systemic Art.

In 1972, the "Scuola de Altos Estudios del CAyC" was founded.

In the seventies CAyC became an international center for the Pop art-culture and the famous Museo de Arquitectura.

Well-known teachers at CAyC have included Justus Dahinden and Mario Botta.

From 1968 until his death in early 2012, Jorge Glusberg was the Director of CAyC.

Further reading

• "X Bienal Internacional de Arquitectura 2005". CAyC (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 13 August 2006.
• Sarti, Graciela (March 2013). Grupo CAyC (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Centro Virtual de Arte Argentino.
• Kalyva, Eve (2016). "Chapter 3.5: "Art and Violence in the Open Air: The Activities of CAYC"". Image and Text in Conceptual Art: Critical Operations in Context. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 80–102. ISBN 978-3-319-45086-5. OCLC 996426645.

External links

• Grupo CAyC at Centro Virtual de Arte Argentino