Drummond and the Plata’s avant-garde: the re-invencionism

Abstract

Accompanying the Argentinian Arte Concreto Invención group and its Manifesto Invencionista, Carlos Drummond de Andrade (re)published, in the 9th number of the Joaquim magazine, in 1947, the text “Invencionismo”, previously published in Correio da Manhã, in December 1946. A highly informed Drummond described the movement there and made a number of criticisms. This text is read here in what we call the “Arturo constellation”, the numerous and various derivations of the group that, in 1944, launched the Arturo magazine in Buenos Aires, and defined the non-figurative, abstract, concrete, or inventionism in the La Plata River. The Drummondian variant of the project would be placed in Joaquim magazine and in another contemporary magazine, Anhembi magazine: reinvention or writing of the return, where repetition and memory are intersected to reveal the dust of history was leaving almost imperceptible in its vestiges.