\Teresa BurgaThe Sixties02.02. - 20.04.2013

Teresa Burga’s experiments in the areas of pop art, visual poetry, conceptual art, information art, and audio-visual art revolve around questions of representation and mass culture. They explore the constructions of femininity as well as the processes of mechanization and bureaucratization of labor and everyday life. They comprise conceptions of absurd, dysfunctional apparatuses and toys, extensive instructions and diagrams for unrealized projects, musical scores, experiments like the timed or blindfolded production of drawings, and the multimedia visualizations of interdisciplinary research projects.

The modular, geometric objects designed by Burga in the second half of the 1960s conform to the definition of a system elaborated by the Argentine critic Jorge Glusberg, co-founder of CAYC (Centro de Arte y Comunicación / Center of Art and Communication) in Buenos Aires. The system is a grouping of entities which organize and articulate themselves in relation to one another in a dynamic process and that cannot be understood either individually or outside of the framework of the mutual interdependence. In Burga’s three-dimensional works the multiplicity of possibilities is enacted by particular arrangement of visual motifs, forms, and colors, which allow to reconfigure the pieces in a variety of ways.