In the house of Victoria Ocampo, Grand Bourg headquarters, 37 works by Miguel Angel Vidal and Eduardo Mac Entyre are exhibited, emblems of the movement that in our country had its baptism in 1960
“Creating is engender and not interpreting what has already been created,” said Georges Vantongerloo, the Belgian artist (Antwerp1886- Paris 1965) who gave Ignacio Pirovano, generous art promoter, his original writings and it was Pirovano who coined the term Generative art what he had in Miguel Angel Vidal (1928-2009) and Eduardo Mac Entyre (1929-2014) to the most prominent and rigorous protagonists of the 60s.
Years also in which informalism, neofiguration, complex visual situations, the abandonment of rigor, the inclusion of unconventional materials, among other artistic manifestations arose. Both painters launched their manifesto, recognized internationally, as noted by María José Herrera, curator of the exhibition “Generative art: the future to create” that is exhibited in the Victoria Ocampo house, one of the headquarters of the National Fund of the Arts.
The 37 exhibited works, between paintings, in oil and acrylic, drawings, tempers, serigraphs and bibliographic material, are a tour of the work of these pioneering artists, as well as a deserved tribute.
A bit of history: the first sample of generative art was carried out in the Peuser Gallery in 1960 and Vidal then said: “We found a way to produce a primary element and a vibration that gave us the possibility of an individual expression that projected at the same time the problems of the historical moment in which we were working, we also looked for the depth of the expression, we wanted to produce the permanence of the image so that the observer did not stop. In emotion. ” And the emotion, an almost absent word of contemporary visual expressions, remains in this sample.
Eduardo Mac Entyre also pointed out that when observing his fabrics he discovers the interaction of the line and color, generating spiritual vibrations, systole and diastole of that heart that absorbs and transmits the energy of the universe since both artists, when launching the manifesto used the words generate, generate artistic mental solutions since virtual movement and beauty went to the time. It engenders a series of optical sequences through a development generated by a form and the movement in which the lines that are touched or crossed vibrate.
This manifesto, written in 1959, the first one that proposes an optical art in Latin America, advances on the generation of light, giving its paintings a great spiritual intensity. It is worth reading to understand the generative term: they revolve, vibrate when they are, produce the contrast or the chiaroscuro. They adopt a new type of life, charge new identity in space and identify with technology, “we have presented this”, “the machine helps to think, but man puts his spiritual energy and his sensitive part,” both artists said in a report.
The support they received from their beginnings, from the art critic, poet, essayist, translator of Shakespeare, Rafael Squirru, creator of the Museum of Modern Art and its director in its itinerant time cannot be ignored.
Rufino de Elizalde 2831. Grand Bourg. Monday to Friday from 11 am to 7 pm on October 27.
Source: Ambito
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