Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

The text “Utopía” (1992) by the curator and art critic Alberto Sierra introduced a retrospective exhibition by the Grupo Utopía of Medellín. Organized in 1979, this group was made up of the Colombian architects Jorge Mario Gómez, Patricia Gó [...]

In the document Ex-situ / In-situ. Moravia: prácticas artísticas en comunidad 1 (2008), the artists Fernando Escobar, Carlos Uribe and Juan Alberto Gaviria introduce the guidelines for the project Ex-situ / In-situ in Moravia. Regarding this [...]

In the paper, “Representación y soporte material: In Memoriam a Walter Benjamin” [Representation and Medium: In Memoriam to Walter Benjamin], the Peruvian writer, Mirko Lauer, develops a general thesis on Abstract art based on historical [...]

The director of the Museo de Bellas Artes [Museum of Fine Arts] in Caracas, María Elena Ramos, presented a paper at the I Coloquio de Arte No Objetual [First Symposium on Abstract Art] (Medellín, 1981) under the title, “La comunicación en las [...]

In the essay “Ciudad Kennedy: Memoria y Realidad. Proyecto colectivo de creación plástica” [Kennedy City: Memory and Reality. Visual Art Creation – A Group Project] (2000-2002) the artist and professor Raúl Cristancho discusses the Project [...]

In this text, critic José Ignacio Roca describes the work Dormitorio [Bedroom] (1998) by Colombian artist Rolf Abderhalden, which was given an award at the VI Bienal de Arte of Bogotá. Roca discusses the “performative quality” of the video [...]

In “América Latina: Arte e Identidad,” Germán Rubiano formulates a criticism of the exhibition The Spirit of Latin America held at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York in 1989. He questions a reading of Latin America that, in his view, [...]

Chilean art critic Miguel Rojas Mix provides an overview of the exhibition Art in Latin America held at the Hayward Gallery in London in mid-1989. Rojas Mix’s account attempts to explain the curatorial criteria underlying the show, its organization [...]

In this article entitled “Mito y Realidad: Arte Latinoamericano en Estados Unidos” [Latin American Art: Myth and Reality], North American critic and professor at New York University Edward Sullivan provides an overview of how Latin American art [...]