Inside the MFAH Posts by Giovanna Bassi
Giovanna Bassi is an independent researcher who volunteers with the Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art Project. Bassi holds a master of architecture degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a master of arts in art history degree from the University of Houston.
Gyula Kosice and the Rise of the Argentinean Avant-Garde April 4, 2016
In 2016, we mark 70 years since the founding of the groundbreaking Madí movement and the 92nd birthday of its mastermind: Argentinean sculptor and poet Gyula Kosice. Kosice had a pivotal role in the takeoff of original avant-garde movements in Buenos Aires during the 1940s. Along with Uruguayan artists Carmelo Arden Quin and Rhod Rothfuss, and Argentinean poet Edgar Bayley, Kosice edited the …
