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  • French recognize top Venezuela kinetic 'mover'
    Calcaño, Isabel Cristina
    1986
    This article is based on a conversation with Carlos Cruz-Diez after he was awarded the Officier des Arts et des Lettres, a prize sponsored by the French government, which was presented by the French Minister of Culture, Jack Lange. In it it appears [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1472368

  • Painter from Venezuela
    Brett, Guy
    1965
    This is an anonymous review of the retrospective exhibition of Cruz-Diez’s work at the Signals gallery in London in 1965. The reviewer notes a constant quality in Venezuelan painting—“clarity, order, and a distinct gentleness&rdquo [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1472279

  • Art and Science at the Crossroads
    Herzberg, Julia P.
    2009
    This exhibition essay by Julia P. Herzberg reviews the artistic trajectory of Venezuelan artist Nela Ochoa (b. 1953), whose current work is inspired by the medical sciences. Since the 1990s, she has mainly focused on the body, genetics, and [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1469684

  • Conversation with Iván Navarro
    Herzberg, Julia P.; Navarro, Iván, 1972-
    2012
    In this interview with Iván Navarro, Julia P. Herzberg poses questions about process and materials, the use of electricity, and art historical influences on his work from the 1990s to the 2000s. Navarro’s Blade Runner series (2004), [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1469683

  • Excerpts from a conversation with Carlos Alfonzo and César Trasobares=Extractos de una conversación entre Carlos Alfonzo y Cesar Trasobares
    Herzberg, Julia P.
    1997
    This text, included in an exhibition catalogue for artist Carlos Alfonzo, is a transcription of a conversation between Alfonzo and his friend César Trasobares. The interview was videotaped by Alfonzo’s friend Craig Robins in November [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1469668

  • Leandro Katz : una decada de obra=a decade of work
    Herzberg, Julia P.
    1995
    This exhibition essay by guest curator Julia P. Herzberg addresses two major long-term projects by Leandro Katz. The Catherwood Project (1985–1995, 2001) is a photographic reconstruction of the two mid-nineteenth century expeditions of John [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1469667

  • Francisca Sutil in conversation with Julia P. Herzberg=Francisca Sutil en conversación con Julia P. Herzberg
    Herzberg, Julia P.; Sutil, Francisca, 1952-
    2013
     This art magazine interview between Julia P. Herzberg and Francisca Sutil involves a conversation about the artist’s painting process in general and her recent series Mute (2009), in particular. Sutil explains that prior to initiating [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1344151

  • Four ways : a room of her own
    Herzberg, Julia P.
    2006
    This exhibition essay explores the works of four contemporary women artists of Cuban descent: Teresita Fernández, María Elena González, Quisqueya Henríquez, and María Martínez-Cañas, each discussed [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1344135

  • La mente meditativa, creativa y perceptiva : Pabhavikas, Emergences y River Library=The meditative, creative, and perceiving mind : Pabhavikas, Emergences, and The River Library
    Herzberg, Julia P.
    2008
    This exhibition essay discusses three interrelated artistic works by Raquel Rabinovich: the Pabhavikas series, the Emergences series, and the Riverbed Library series. It details how she brings together the creative and perceptive mindset of her [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1344119

  • Ritual in performance
    Herzberg, Julia P.
    2008
    This exhibition essay discusses several Central American and Caribbean artists who draw on rituals in their performative works, including Ernesto Pujol, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, José Bedia, Pepón Osorio, Tania Bruguera, [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1344103

  • Run Away, Run Away = Huye, Huye
    Herzberg, Julia P.
    2001
    This exhibition essay discusses the Chilean artist Catalina Parra’s collages on view in the exhibition Catalina Parra: It’s Indisputable. It includes seven series with seventy works, which comprise collages made of newspaper clippings [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1344087

  • Pepón Osorio : Transboricua
    Herzberg, Julia P.
    1999
    These exhibition notes explain RISD’s (Rhode Island School of Art and Design) Art ConText series and artist Pepón Osorio’s work Transboricua. These socially engaged installations originate from his past experiences as a social [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1344071

  • Pepón Osorio : Redefining the Boundaries for Installation Art
    Herzberg, Julia P.
    2000
    This art magazine article on Pepón Osorio overviews his career trajectory since the late 1980s, suggesting that he has pushed boundaries with his site-specific installations. His work addresses social issues by engaging in community outreach [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1344055

  • Leandro Katz
    Herzberg, Julia P.
    2003
    This short text appears in a catalogue of works in El Museo del Barrio’s permanent collection. It addresses several works by artist Leandro Katz. Among them, a chromogenic photographic print titled Lunar Typewriter (1980). It depicts an old- [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1344039

  • Integration and resistance in the global era : personal reflections on the 10th Havana Biennial = Integración y resistencia en la era global : reflexiones personales sobre la X Bienal de La Habana
    Herzberg, Julia P.
    2009
    This art magazine article reviews the 10th Bienal de La Habana organized around the theme “Integration and Resistance in the Global Era.” It exhibits works in all media that explore the effects of globalization on economies, natural [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1344023

  • Havana Biennial : a cultural phenomenon=un fenómeno cultural
    Herzberg, Julia P.
    2006
    This art magazine article reviews the 9th Bienal de La Habana and describes art works in its various venues. The biennial’s theme focuses on the dynamics and complexities of urban culture, exhibiting works in all media. Some works present the [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1344007

  • Ana Mendieta's Iowa Years 1970-1980
    Herzberg, Julia P.
    2004
    This exhibition essay charts Ana Mendieta’s artistic trajectory between 1970 and 1980, including her tenure at the University of Iowa (where she completed two master’s degrees: one in painting and one in intermedia), her time in Mexico, [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1343975

  • Ana Mendieta : the formative years
    Herzberg, Julia P.
    2003
    This magazine article addresses Ana Mendieta’s early work during her graduate studies at the University of Iowa in the early 1970s. The article argues that though Mendieta’s work has been extensively analyzed, this period in her [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1343959

  • Decomposing – Recomposing : concepts, processes, and sources
    Herzberg, Julia P.
    2011
    This exhibition essay by adjunct curator Julia Herzberg on artist Magdalena Fernández’s video installation 2iPM009 (2009) intends to broaden our understanding of the Venezuelan artist’s concepts, processes, sources, and development [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1343943

  • A town portrait : memory streams
    Herzberg, Julia P.
    1998
    This exhibition brochure by guest curator Julia P. Herzberg describes several works included in A Town Portrait, with an eponymous installation and two photographic series, When I Am Not Here/Estoy allá (1996) and Abridor de caminos (1997). [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1343927

  • A dialogue with life and death
    Herzberg, Julia P.
    2006
    This essay by Julia Herzberg overviews Carlos Alfonzo’s artistic trajectory from 1982 to 1991, outlining the biographical details of his life and analyzing multiple artworks included in the exhibition. Working mainly in a Neo-Expressionist [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1343911

  • Re-membering identity : vision of connections
    Herzberg, Julia P.
    1990
    Curator Julia Herzberg’s exhibition essay for The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s explores the construct of “identity” in the art of the 1980s. It discusses the twenty-five Hispanic, Latino, Chicano, Latin American [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1343879

  • Josely Carvalho : On the Violence of War
    Herzberg, Julia P.
    1993
    This exhibition essay by Julia P. Herzberg explains and describes two installations by Josely Carvalho: It’s Still a Time to Mourn: Dia Mater I and Tempos de Luto: Dia Mater II (both 1993). Both works are part of the larger series It’s [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1343863

  • Ernesto Pujol : Conversion of Manners
    Herzberg, Julia P.
    2000
    This exhibition brochure, written by consulting curator Julia P. Herzberg, addresses Ernesto Pujol’s installation Conversion of Manners. The title comes from a Benedictine vow that Catholic monks take when they leave secular life and enter [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1343831

  • Ernesto Pujol : American Fields
    Herzberg, Julia P.
    2002
    Written by guest curator Julia P. Herzberg, this exhibition leaflet explains the ideas behind Ernesto Pujol’s installation American Fields. This Cuban artist’s work comprises a wooden table, a metal chair, and cast-aluminum corn cobs, as [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1343815

  • Arturo Cuenca : New Photographs and Old
    Herzberg, Julia P.
    1993
    This exhibition essay overviews the trajectory of Arturo Cuenca’s photographic practice from his time spent in Cuba in the 1980s until his arrival in New York in the early 1990s. In the late 1970s, he transitioned from making Photorealist/Pop [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1343706

  • Mercedes Pardo : working with the most beautiful of all illusions
    Pecins, Baiba
    1979
    In this article for The Daily Journal, Baiba Pecins writes about Mercedes Pardo on the occasion of the exhibition of her work at the GAN (Galería de Arte Nacional) in Caracas. The article is introduced by observations on luminosity and [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1331379

  • Historia, modernidad y ruina peruana : notas sobre identidad y espacio en la obra de Carlos Runcie Tanaka
    Quijano, Rodrigo, 1965-
    2004
    Rodrigo Quijano argues that Tiempo detenido—the installation by ceramicist Carlos Runcie Tanaka—does more than illustrate a traumatic event. Since its beginnings, Quijano asserts, the work has been linked to the artist’s search for identity. To [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1293738

  • La ciudad : el camello por el ojo de la aguja
    Quijano, Rodrigo, 1965-
    2002
    In this text, Rodrigo Quijano argues that Lima 01—a series of photographs of inverted images of interiors of old abandoned buildings in downtown Lima—addresses questions of forgetting and urban decay. The series makes reference to the design of [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1293706

  • POST- COLONIAL LIBERATION ARMY (rematerialización) Tercera Proclama y Llamado. El PCLA (r) se pregunta.
    2001
    The Uruguayan artist Carlos Capelán created a fictitious entity he called “Post Colonial Liberation Army” which he used to issue personal, though supposedly anonymous, manifestos in which he discussed various things related to art practices, the [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1249745

  • Ética y los Otros. Cuarta proclama (investigación para beneficio propio)
    2003
    Carlos Capelán’s installations include texts expressed as proclamations presented under the acronym PCLA (r): Post Colonial Liberation Army (re materialización). The Uruguayan artist’s work alludes to and emulates manifestos produced by [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1247875

  • Naturalezas de objetos muertos
    Kalenberg, Angel
    1986
    Clever Lara’s work is reviewed by the critic Ángel Kalenberg, who was also in charge of Uruguay’s contribution to the XLII Venice Biennial (1986). In Kalenberg’s opinion, Lara’s work is representative of the kind of painting that was [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1247623

  • Camargo
    Camargo, Sérgio de, 1930-1990; Gimpel Fils
    1970
    This is the catalogue published to accompany Camargo, the exhibition organized by the Gimpel Fils gallery in London. The Brazilian artist Sérgio Camargo’s works were exhibited there from November 17 through December 5, 1970. The [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1232709

  • Lygia Clark at Signals London: 27th May to 3rd July
    Pedrosa, Mário; Clark, Lygia
    1965
    “Lygia Clark at Signals London, 27th May to 3rd July” is a special edition of Newsbulletin of Signals London devoted to Lygia Clark (1920−1988) on the occasion of the Brazilian artist’s first solo exhibition in England, which [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1232662

  • Lygia Clark : ongoing fusion - 1968
    Clay, Jean
    1992
    In this essay from 1992, Jean Clay outlines the salient concepts that are intrinsic to Lygia Clark’s work. In his opinion, the Brazilian artist’s trajectory is marked by the tendency toward fusion, an obsession with synthesis, and a [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1232614

  • Lygia Clark : in search of the body
    Brett, Guy
    1994
    In this essay, the British curator and art critic Guy Brett traces the linkage between the different phases that made up the artistic career of Brazilian artist Lygia Clark. From her Neo-Constructivist paintings and sculptures made in the late 1950s [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1232526

  • [Letter] 1988 June 20, London [to] Adolpho Leirner
    Brett, Guy
    1988
    In this letter dated June 20, 1988, the English critic and curator Guy Brett expresses his gratitude to the Brazilian collector Adolpho Leirner and his wife, Fulvia Leirner, for the time they spent together in São Paolo. Brett is especially [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1232349

  • Elsa Gramcko of Venezuela
    1959
    This catalogue accompanied the 1959 exhibition of twelve oil paintings by Elsa Gramcko, an abstract artist from Venezuela, at the Pan American Union of the Organization of American States in Washington, D.C. This exhibition marked Gramcko’s [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1222685

  • Mapping Change : a historical perspective on geometric abstraction in Argentina, Venezuela and Brazil = Cartografía del cambio : una perspectiva histórica de la abstración geométrica en Argentina, Venezuela y Brazil
    Schneider Enríquez, Mary
    2001
    The synopsis and the annotations in English are coming soon.                                However, our bilingual readers can click on “Español” to access this information in Spanish [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1217297

  • [Latin American Art Today; Venezuela]
    1961
    In this translated and edited text by Ralph E. Dimmick for a monograph on Venezuelan art as part of the series Art of Latin America Today, the critic and art historian Clara Diament de Sujo offers an overview of the state of art in 1961. In her [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1214154

  • Works and problems : A conversation about the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection = Obras y Problemas : Una conversación entorno a la Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
    Jiménez, Ariel; Pérez Oramas, Luis, 1960-
    2001
    The synopsis and the annotations in English are coming soon. However, our bilingual readers can click on “Español” to access this information in Spanish [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1167515

  • Re-aligning vision : alternative currents in South American Drawing
    Gibson, Edith A.
    1997
    Mari Carmen Ramírez and the North American curator Edith A. Gibson curated Re-Aligning Vision. Alternative Currents in South American Drawing, the exhibition which was organized by the Archer Huntington Gallery in Austin, Texas. Gibson writes about [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1167028

  • Gego's performative geometry
    Cabañas, Kaira Marie, 1974-
    2006
    Curator Kaira Marie Cabañas argues that work by Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt, 1912–1994), a Venezuelan artist of German origin, constitutes a “performative geometry” based on a primordial interest in the act of “making.” The configuration of [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1166787

  • Del encuentro a la revelación
    Arráiz Parra, Antonio
    1985
    Antonio Arráiz reviews Naturalezas vivas, the exhibition of works by José Antonio Dávila. The author discusses the artist’s early paintings and his career, then turns to the series of works that the Venezuelan painter showed in 1985 at the Galer [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1165695

  • [Fabiola Sequera abre un capítulo desconocido...]
    Niño Araque, William
    1991
    In this text, curator William Niño Araque reflects on Fabiola Sequera’s sculpture on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Galería Astrid Paredes in Caracas in 1991. The curatorial essay proposes three approaches to a body of work that [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1165647

  • Itinerario de Marisol
    Diament Sujo, Clara
    1968
    In this essay about the work of the sculptress Marisol, the gallery owner Clara Diament de Sujo provides a brief biographical sketch of the artist’s childhood and youth, and a list of the group exhibitions in which she has participated. She [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1163573

  • Marisol
    Bernstein, Roberta
    1995
    In this essay on sculptor Marisol [Escobar], North American curator Roberta Bernstein provides a chronological description of her work, analyzing the vast majority of her creations and the different phases of her production. She describes the [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1163557

  • Tamarind Fellowship, November - December 1966 : artist Gego
    1966
    This text describes the most outstanding characteristics of the works created by Gego during her involvement with the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles, California, in 1966. The article explains that Gego’s line, a predominant element in [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1160087

  • Something’s Got to Give = Algo tiene que ceder
    Storr, Robert
    2006
    Robert Storr analyzes Gego’s work in the formal milieu in which it was created. The curator begins with an introduction in which he provides the essential information about her life, her late training as an artist, and the influence of Paul Klee [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1160071

  • Open up : an Introduction
    Ruiz, Alma
    1999
    In her introduction to the catalog for the exhibition, The Experimental Exercise of Freedom at the MOCA (The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1999–2000), the curator Alma Ruiz explains that the purpose of the exhibition is to show [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1160023