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Para Jaime,
mi amigo
Pedro
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EYE ON CINEMA

In 1975, almost by chance, Punto de Contacto/Point of Contact originated a journal about the verbal and visual arts, known as Punto de Contacto first, and later as Point of Contact. In time, this journal, now a book series, has become a medium for some of the most relevant contemporary artists around the globe and many of them have become long time collaborators, co-creators and designers of a project that continues to evolve and move forward in unforeseen ways.

Eye On Cinema, is the theme of a Point of Contact's Vol.5, No.1, an issue dedicated to the art of film, edited in 1997 by Pedro Cuperman and Owen Shapiro. Integrated with a series of critical discussions by distinguished filmmakers and film theorists, Eye On Cinema unites a set of 21 original works by Papo Colo, Gregory Crewdson Judy Pfaff, Sandy Skoglund and Rob Van Erve, selected by Point of Contact's art editor at that time, Ursula Von Rydingsvard. The texts and images in this catalogue are reprinted as they appeared in the original Point of Contact publication, with the exception of Beside the Visible: Judy Pfaff.

The Eye On Cinema show is part of the larger permanent collection, which will now be archived at The Point of Contact Gallery and catalogued in a special upcoming volume to commemorate Point of Contact's 30th Anniversary. More than 200 original pieces of photography, collage, drawings, paintings and three-dimensional works now form this significant collection, which comprises works by Burt Barr, Roy Bautista, Luis Camnitzer, Pérez Celis, Marta Chilindrón, Papo Colo, Jaime Davidovich, Katherine Desjardins, Nancy Graves, Joseph Kugielsky, Nam June Paik, Izhar Patkin, Judy Pfaff, Cesar Paternosto, Liliana Porter, Regina Silveira, Ana Tiscornia and Ursula Von Rydingsvard.

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