Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In Venezuela, curator Katherine Chacón reviews the work of Colombian artist Beatriz González, particularly in reference to her re-creation of artistic masterpieces, in painting, drawing, and objects, since 1962. To do so she establishes connections [...]

In her essay “Diego Barboza: El festín de la nostalgia,” published in the catalogue for the eponymous exhibition, curator Katherine Chacón, after providing information on the artist’s youth, studies, and his start in painting and drawing in [...]

Katherine Chacón’s interview starts out with significant aspects from the life of the artist Beatriz González, especially those that influenced her work. It focuses on her university studies and professors, her family, the city where she was born [...]

“Francisco Bugallo: la pintura revisitada”—the essay about the Venezuelan painter Francisco Bugallo—was written by the curator Katherine Chacón and published in the magazine Imagen, no. 100-74, Caracas, in February 1991. Chacón discusses [...]

In this text, Katherine Chacón analyzes sculpture in wood by Venezuelan artist Gaudí Esté in terms of symbolism, balance of form, and gestural violence. Chacón asserts that the two fundamental aspects of Esté’s work are an inclination for [...]

In this essay, the curator Katherine Chacón writes about the artist Javier Téllez. She refers to the conceptual lucidity of his work which, in her opinion, stands out among other examples of contemporary Venezuelan art. Chacón reviews the artist [...]

In connection with the exhibition Antología del desarraigo (1992), the curator Katherine Chacón writes about the career of the Venezuelan mixed-media artist, Ángel Vivas Arias. The writer highlights the duality of mysticism and nature evident [...]