Open Work in Latin America, New York & Beyond: Conceptualism Reconsidered, 1967-1978<\/a>” curated by Harper Montgomery at Hunter College. History anchors itself once again in the shelves of conceptual art. For the lovers of conspiracies, conceptualism is a complex, non-linear phenomenon. It can’t be reduced to a chronology but crystallises into networks of power. The story of Lippard persists beyond the evidences reaped by the history of art in the last decade. <\/p>\nThe exhibition \u201cOpen Work\u2026\u201d is organised along a theoretical, historical and curatorial vector. Following the theory of Eco, the show is based on a form of poetics where works of art can forge the maximum ambiguity and depend on the active intervention of the spectator, though still remaining \u201cwork\u201d. <\/p>\n
Secondly, the historical tale is associated with Lucy Lippard, to whom the term \u201cdematerialised art\u201d is attributed. In 1973, Lippard published \u201cSix years: the dematerialization of the art object\u201d in which she revised part of the Anglo-Saxon production of conceptual art and mentioned some Latin-American experiences that can be found in this show (those of the Rosario group and Tucum\u00e1n Arde in Argentina; the exhibitions realised in the CAyC in Buenos Aires and the works by Luis Camnitzer with the New York Graphic Workshop). Curiously, Lippard didn\u2019t comment on the previous experiences of Alberto Greco, Ricardo Carreira, Oscar Masotta or Roberto Jacoby.<\/p>\n
Probably both Masotta and Lippard had read the article “The Future of the Book” by Lissitzky, republished in the New Left Review in 1967. They possibly found there the concept of \u2018dematerialization\u2019<\/em>, interesting as a way of understanding the art of the time. In July that same year Masotta gave a talk in the Instituto Di Tella titled “Despu\u00e9s del Pop nosotros desmaterializamos” (After Pop we dematerialize), and in October 1967 published the book “Happenings”, where the early experiences of dematerialised art were presented. Finally a year later he publishes “Conciencia y estructura” (Conscience and structure) where he refers once again to some of these projects. What is curious about these connections and coincidences is that Lippard made no mention of the existence of Masotta and the media art group. Not just because she met artists from the city of Rosario who had worked with one of the members of the mass media art group in Tucum\u00e1n Arde or because she visited El Di Tella, but because she knew a direct disciple of Masotta.<\/p>\n![\"b)](\"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/3-_Masotta.png\")
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Thirdly, the exhibition forms part of the collection of Patricia Phels Cisneros and the work of the curators Gabriel P\u00e9rez Barreiro, Sof\u00eda Hern\u00e1ndez Chong-Cuy and Skye Monson. This collection is conspicuous in its lack of important pieces of dematerialized art that have been discussed in numerous investigations and exhibitions over the last decade: ” Global Conceptualism” at the Queens Museum, and “Heterotop\u00edas” at the Museo de la Reina Sof\u00eda in Madrid, “Conceptual Art: an anthology” by Alberro and Stimson, “Conceptual Art” by Osborne, “Rewriting Conceptual Art” by Newman and Bird, and the works of Longoni and Mestman, Giunta and Katzenstein.<\/p>\n
One demonstration of the standing of an institutional collection like that of Cisneros, ought to be carefully examining the investigations into conceptualism that are being developed in diverse parts of the world, and not remaining petrified in the face of the advances made in the investigation of art and curatorial practices. An institutional collection is not built up out of commercial interests nor personal caprices, but through historical investigation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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