Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Reply of Argentinean artist Perla Benveniste to the summons to express herself against the 1971 São Paulo Biennial. This artist responds through a graphic image with geometric forms printed over a hand [...]

Cayetano Córdova-Iturburu presents Carlos Cañás’s exhibition (Galería Rubbers, Buenos Aires, October, 1966), emphasizing that both the will for balance and the order set by his painting stresses this artist’s classic position, despite the [...]

This document contains an interview with Marta Minujin in El Batacazo [Thud!], presented at the Premio Internacional Torcuato Di Tella [Torcuato Di Tella International Prize]. In it she defines the concept of “suceso plástico&rdquo [...]

This document is a letter written by Enrique Oteiza, in his function as director of the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella [Torcuato Di Tella Institute], to the Editor–in-Chief of the newspaper Clarín [Bugle], Oscar Camilión. In it he expresses his [...]

This introductory text for a tribute exhibition identifies the three periods of Jorge de la Vega’s work: the geometric stage, the Nueva Figuración [New Figuration] stage (within painting), and the stage of songs, poems, and accompanying shows. [...]

This text—included in the offprint “Elementos para una biografía” [Elements for a Biography] taken from the exhibition catalogue for Berni - Óleos y Collages [Berni: Oils and Collages]— points out the trajectory of Berni’s work through [...]

Critical text that focuses on the exhibition of concrete works by Tomás Maldonado and Manuel Espinosa shown September of 1947 in the exhibition halls of the Argentinian Society of Visual Artists in Buenos Aires [...]

Pragmatic text which elaborates on the aesthetic political parameters proposed by the Concrete Art-Invention Association. The conceptual development of the guidelines attempts to prove a crisis in representation, proposing the dominance of immediate [...]