In this video, Zanna Gilbert, from the Getty Research Institute, and Pia Gottschaller, from the Getty Conservation Institute, demonstrate how Argentine artists working in the 1940s broke the tradition of painting-as-window with shaped paintings (marcos recortados) and works that even pushed beyond the wall to blur the boundary between sculpture and painting. This video was produced on the occasion of the exhibition at the Getty "Making Art Concrete: Works from Argentina and Brazil in the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros".
"Making Art Concrete: Works from Argentina and Brazil in the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros" is on view at The Getty Center, September 16, 2017–February 11, 2018, as part of the Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative in Southern California. For more information about the exhibition, please visit: http://coleccioncisneros.org/collections/exhibitions/making-art-concrete
