Jorge de La Vega - Singing and Songwriting

Singing and Songwriting

In de la Vega's later years he became a popular singer/lyricist after giving up the visual arts. Two great examples of his work at this time of life are "Proximidad (Proximity)" and "El gusanito en persona (the little worm in person)". The editor's note preceding these works (as published in Inverted Utopias) clarifies: “This document and the preceding one are of interest not for their importance as poems, but because they illustrate one of the creative outlets chosen by Argentinean artists who, at the end of the 1960s, quit painting to circumvent the institutionalization of art. By then, the medium of painting had fallen short of their expectations, and their arguments had hit bottom.”