Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

The curator Axel Stein introduces the exhibition of works by Luis Lizardo at the Centro de Arte Euroamericano (Caracas, 1991). In his essay Stein talks about the artist’s early days, when he was just getting started, interspersing his own formal [...]

Researcher and historian Bélgica Rodríguez analyzes the work of Hugo Baptista in a biographical text with quotations made by the painter; beginning with the artist’s move to Caracas in 1951 so that he could enroll in Vicente Emilio Sojo’s [...]

The curator Cecilia Fajardo-Hill introduces the exhibition Usted, el espacio by the Venezuelan visual artist Alí González, held at the Galería D’Museo in Caracas in 2001. In connection with that event, the curator discusses the artist’s recent [...]

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 [...]

By way of an open letter, Luis Enrique Pérez-Oramas (b. 1960) introduces the exhibition Pinturas, work by Luis Lizardo, organized by the Centro de Arte Euroamericano (Caracas, 1996). The letter is a meditation (of a poetic nature) on the ideas and [...]

José Antonio Dávila discusses the origin and nature of his recent work in his introductory essay for Personas, ámbitos y ventanas, his 1976 exhibition in Caracas. The Venezuelan artist mentions the work he produced in 1967 that, in a sense, [...]

Luis Pérez-Oramas wrote this curatorial text on the exhibition Usted, el espacio by the Venezuelan artist Alí González exhibiting at the Galería D’Museo (Caracas, 2001). Opting to envision the work poetically, he approaches the work of Gonzá [...]

In connection with her exhibition in the Sala Mendoza (Caracas, 1990), the Venezuelan artist Isabel Cisneros wrote this [brief] introduction. In the essay, she explains how she entered into the world of ceramics, as well as her interests and [...]

The critic and curator Ariel Jiménez writes the introductory essay in the catalogue for the exhibition Clemencia Labin. In his essay, Jiménez discusses Labin’s exhibition, focusing on the most significant elements of her work. Jiménez highlights [...]

The curator Julieta González discusses the work presented by two contemporary artists, Juan Nascimento and Daniela Lovera, in the La colección exhibition at the Sala Mendoza(Caracas, 1998). González indicates that there is a conceptual basis of [...]

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 [...]

Curator Jesús Fuenmayor explores the work of Venezuelan artist Diana López on the basis of her participation in an annual show at PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, in New York. The theme López presented for that show was the result of her experiences [...]

María Luz Cárdenas reviews Dystopia, the work by the Venezuelan artist Sammy Cucher that was shown in the Venezuelan pavilion at the XLVI Biennale di Venezia (June-October, 1995). Dystopia was jointly produced by Cucher and the North American [...]

In this essay, the North American poet and critic Ricardo Pau-Llosa writes about the Venezuelan painter Luis Lizardo on the occasion of the exhibition of work by the latter in the United States (Miami: Ambrosino Gallery, 1992). The critic discusses [...]

Plica was a group exhibition organized by the Galería Ars Forum (Caracas, 1997). The three participants were Venezuelan artists: Pablo Ballini, Dulce Gómez, and Luis Romero. The catalogue for the exhibition was created in the form of a poster that [...]

In this text, critic Carlos Silva places emphasis on Hugo Baptista’s skill as a painter. Baptista’s work is characterized by a lyrical use of color and an expressive approach to painterly material. It is with good reason, Silva asserts, that [...]

In his review of Casos de Cosas (Caracas: Galería Alternativa, 2004)—the exhibition of works by the artist Ani Villanueva—the art critic Víctor Guédez mentions certain precedents in the field of objectual art. He especially refers to those [...]

Ruth Auerbach introduces Landescape, the exhibition of works by Dulce Gómez at her first solo show, at the Galería Alternativa in Caracas in 1994. In her poetic essay, Auerbach describes the salient features of this Venezuelan artist’s paintings [...]

In her review of Ofrendas y otros encuentros, an exhibition ofJosé Antonio Dávila’s work held at Galería Freites in Caracas in 1994, Beatriz Sogbe analyzes and provides a formal description of the evolution of the Venezuelan artist’s painting [...]

In this text, Venezuelan artist Ana Villanueva evidences her connection to nature and describes what she attempts to convey in her paintings of fish, plants, fruit, and other elements found in nature. Villanueva explains that, with the works in the [...]

The art critic Roberto Guevara wrote a text with the title “Salir fuera,” which introduced the exhibition brochure for Pasta dominical by Clemencia Labin at the Galería Sala Alternativa (Caracas, 1997). The writer begins with a description of [...]