Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this article Damián Bayón comments on an exhibition of work drawn from museums in Berlin, which was held at the Petit Palais in Paris. Based on his observations of the European public, Bayón states that the way “to recognize the superior [...]

Under the guise of an interview with visual artist Sebastián Gordín, this article sets out to review the exhibition that he presented in 1992 at the entrance to the ICI (Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana [Institute for Iberian-American [...]

The article analyzes the situation of the Argentinean contemporary art scene. On one hand, the author states the lack of exhibition spaces available for young artists to show their work; except the Centro Cultural Ciudad de Buenos Aires, the CAyC, [...]

Emilio Renart reflects upon the act of creation. He rejects the idea of “inspiration, the rapt emotions it implies,” “the established rules,” [and] paradigms. The artist then proposes to work with “truths that suffice in and of themselves [...]

This document presents the list of individual and group exhibitions that Rubén Santantonín participated in, as well as photographic reproductions of the artist’s works that were included in the Argentinean submissions to the VII Bienal de São [...]

This article by Felipe Debernardi (also known as Elías Piterbarg) is mentioned in the text “Pequeño esfuerzo de justificación colectiva” [Small Effort by Collective Justification] (which is found in the same issue of the journal) as a [...]

Alberto Prebisch points out that given the quantity of new artists shown each time at the Salón de Primavera [Spring Salon], two sections can be distinguished. The first and most numerous is comprised of works absolutely devoid of aesthetic appeal [...]