Alberto Greco
Autorretrato Vivo-Dito 1963

Alberto Greco.
Untitled, 1964

During this period in Madrid, Greco painted some pictures together with Saura. These canvases referred to Kennedy’s assassination. He also organized several actions in Madrid and Piedralaves. Among them, on October 18, 1963, one which he entitled A vivo dito Moment. A trip on the metro standing up from Sol to Lavapies and visit to the market. To show the object found it its place. At his announcement he affirmed: “Greco will sign people-situations-heads of lamb and all that he considers live-art-dito”.

In April 1964, Greco exhibited at the Gallery Juana Mordó in Madrid. In some pieces, together with collages and pictures, he incorporated on the canvas phrases such as: “they say that in the Pampas there are many cows, but I’ve never seen any”, “I’m in no age to love you”, “Greco, le meilleur de tous”. Also, in this exhibit he came up with the “objets vivant”, men and women (a woman with a large basket full of candy, pieces of chocolate and tobacco and a blind street vendor) which he placed in front of the canvases to draw and stain around them. “From time to time” –a journalist described– “the old men would go up to the shelf and they would place themselves inside the traced silhouette in huge white linens”. It was another version of the Vivo-Dito.

Pedro Cámara described the exhibit to a Madrid newspaper: “The artist Greco inaugurated his exhibit at the Juana Mordó showroom yesterday. There was a lot of expectation around this event. You could see painted