Publications

Produced in conjunction with the exhibition Alberto Greco. Viva el arte vivo, this publication sets forth a journey through the unique artistic career of Argentinian artist Alberto Greco (Buenos Aires, 1931 – Barcelona, 1965), who made the public exhibition of his life a space of aesthetic invention. 

The catalogue is structured around three essays, one written by the show’s curator, Fernando Davis, who also opens the publication with an introduction. These investigations, which cast light on the different points of Greco’s winding and “drifting” creative path, are enhanced by the artist’s own voice via a selection of his own texts — including initial copies of his work Fiesta (Party, 1950) and manifestos such as the Great Dito Arte-Vivo Manifesto (1963) — in addition to over two hundred images of his different works spanning the period from 1949 to 1965.   

The publication, moreover, creates a broad and detailed panoramic view of Greco’s short yet variegated artistic output: from his informalist paintings to his actions and objets vivants, from his experience with the programme of Rolling Cultural Exhibitions on a truck travelling through northern Argentina to his vivo-dito acts in Piedralaves, Ávila, and the Lavapiés metro station in Madrid, and from the collages he called “self-propaganda” to his novel Besos brujos (Bewitching Kisses), written shortly before he took his own life.