The publication Imán: Nueva York reconstructs the scene of the 60s as lived by a group of Argentine artists who, in keeping with the artistic world of the time, traveled, studied and created works in the Big Apple. The catalog, overseen by the curator Rodrigo Alonso, exhibits this history through a body of reproductions of works, photographs from the period and portraits, in dialogue with a historical context and current thought, constituting a document of reflection on the artistic scene.

The theoretical texts chosen are: The Fall of Paris by Harold Rosenberg, who in 1940 anticipated the decline of the French capital as the hegemonic center of contemporary art, and which takes on a special relevance now for its prescient diagnosis of the changing scene; in Success: How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art from Paris, Serge Guilbaut explains the socio-economic and political factors that accompanied the birth of New York as the epicenter of international art; and Andrea Giunta, in The “Triumph” of Argentine Painting. Internationalist Nationalism in the Sixties, enriches the catalog with a reflection on the local context, showing how some Argentine institutions contributed to this bilateral interchange.

A body of works documents exhibition catalogs of the time and texts by key artists: Jorge Romero Brest, Hugo Parpagnoli, Thomas Messer, Basilio Uribe, Luis Felipe Noé and Alejandro Puente, among others.

From the voice and memory of the artists themselves, the Interviews section publishes Rodrigo Alonso’s recent talks with each of the artists, recounting the successes and failures of the period.

The more than 300 page catalog has a large body of reproductions, including photographs and other works.

Available in Libreria PROA y Libreria Online