Grupo Joven

María Cristina Rossi

Historical-critical publication about the Grupo Joven (Young Group), an art collective composed of artists from different disciplines and founded by Víctor Magariños that defended the "new art" of the post-war period and developed activities between 1946 and the mid-1970s under the slogan "We are not for or against men. We fight forart." In different periods it was formed by P. De Simone, D. Di Stefano, O. Lucentini, D. Chalukian, V. Magariños D., M. A. Vidal, E. Mac Entyre, J. Arcuri, A. Cuberas, L. Torres Nilsson, C. Filevich, R. Bardi, A. Carracedo, H. Mans, R. Laham, among others. These artists worked within modern art and were not limited simply to the development of painting, but experimented with engraving, sculpture, industrial design, animation cinema, etc.; proposals from which they contributed to the consolidation and expansion of Argentine abstract art. Grupo Joven, new...