Edgardo Antonio Vigo: Works 1953–1997

The first comprehensive retrospective of Edgardo Antonio Vigo (1928–97), a pioneer of Latin American conceptual and mail art with works since the early '50s. The exhibition will include over 500 works by the experimental poet, artist, and publisher, who spent his life working in the Judiciary in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province. It will feature the artist's books and experimental poetry, his 1950s collages, woodcuts and absurd objects, his poetic and politically-charged actions, and the publications he edited and designed during the 1960s, as well as the archives from Novísima Poesía/69, the exhibition he organized for the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella. Curated by Sofía Dourron and Jimena Ferreiro Pella, the exhibition is a collaboration with the Centro de Arte Experimental Vigo in La Plata.