Guillermo Gregorio is a visual artist, musician, and composer who established his reputation in the avant-garde in Argentina before emigrating to Europe, and then America, after his career was well along already. American music, particularly jazz and improvisation, has always remained an integral component of his work no matter where it was based, but Gregorio's work remains grounded in the experience of the Argentine avant-garde, an entire genre of activity that remains unknown in America, even to those who consider ...
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Guillermo Gregorio is a visual artist, musician, and composer who established his reputation in the avant-garde in Argentina before emigrating to Europe, and then America, after his career was well along already. American music, particularly jazz and improvisation, has always remained an integral component of his work no matter where it was based, but Gregorio's work remains grounded in the experience of the Argentine avant-garde, an entire genre of activity that remains unknown in America, even to those who consider themselves well versed in twentieth century art. A "Coplanar" is a type of non-representational, non-metaphysical art object devised by the Argentine avant-garde school of visual artists in the 1940s, and Gregorio has drawn upon this visual stimulus in order to create the eight pieces included on his New World Records release Coplanar.Of course, we cannot see the mobile and fixed forms of the visual art that is behind this music, although an attractive reproduction of an early example of...
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