Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

By way of a brief interview, this text announces the opening of Bernardo Salcedo’s exhibition, Un mes de desahogos pasionales, at UD gallery in Parque de la Independencia in Bogotá. It explains that once the show is over, the works in it will [...]

In this interview focused on the topic of art criticism, artist Bernardo Salcedo expresses his opinion of Marta Traba’s assertion, made just days before, that there is no significant art criticism in Colombia and furthermore, that this is due to [...]

In this interview, the art historian Carmen María Jaramillo and the artist María Fernanda Cardoso discuss several of the latter’s works, particularly the series Coronas funerarias [Funeral Wreaths], (1991) and its connection to the violence in [...]

In this text, Colombian journalist Beatriz de Vieco describes the conceptual works by Bernardo Salcedo featured in the November 1970 exhibition at the Sala Vásquez Ceballos of the National Library of Colombia in Bogotá. According to de Vieco, the [...]

This conversation with the Colombian artist Bernardo Salcedo focuses exclusively on his views on cultural policies, a field in which he carried some weight. The document explains what Salcedo understands by self-management models and describes the [...]

This newspaper article contains Bernardo Salcedo’s statements about the Primer Premio de Adquisición he was awarded at the III Bienal de Arte Americano held in Cordoba, Argentina in 1966. Salcedo compares this decision with the one made by the [...]

Thisinvitation to an exhibition of recent works by Colombian artist Bernardo Salcedo at the Galería Belarca in Bogota gathers texts by different critics that defend or explain Salcedo’s work, placing it in the context of the art world. These [...]

In this text, “Germán Lleras de Francisco,” one of the pseudonyms used here by artist Bernardo Salcedo, discusses an exhibition by Colombian sculptor John Castles, and reflects on abstract sculpture in Colombia and its relationship to design and [...]