Milestone 1. The origins

The origin of the project dates back to 1989. Based on an idea by Daniel Ergasto Martínez, a working draft was presented to Fundación Antorchas under the title Grupo Memoria, which proposed the creation of a documentation center dedicated to local visual arts.

Today Espigas has around 60,000 monographic volumes, approximately 1,000 magazine titles and 1,506 collections of a variety of documentary types such as posters, slides, photographs and more on Argentine and Latin American art.

1. Olympius Camedia camera and Harmony slide projector. Photograph by Cecilia Gallardo (CIAP-CONICET/UNSAM).

2. Espigas Foundation brochure, ca. 2000.

3. Mauro Herlitzka photographed for Canecalón magazine, June 2005.