Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

The chapter titled “Diario de viaje” [Travel Diary] is the first section of the essay Paisajes de la memoria [Landscapes of Memory] that Lorena Kraus wrote about her experience translating the German travel diaries into Spanish kept by her [...]

In this article, the art critic Walter Engel reviews the exhibition of monotypes presented by the artist Augusto Rivera at the Galería Colseguros in Bogotá. Engel highlights the artist’s successful use of the technique, explaining how Rivera [...]

In this brief article, the journalist Amparo Hurtado discusses Alicia Tafur’s solo exhibition of twelve new sculptures at the Luis Ángel Arango Library in Bogotá. Hurtado describes how the sculptures are made with materials such as bronze, rods, [...]

This is an article written by the editorial staff at the weekly Magazine Dominical about the life and work of Alicia Tafur, the Colombian artist. It was written on the occasion of the “first large exhibition for Bogotá” at the Banco de la Repú [...]

In this article, Germán Rubiano Caballero discusses his impressions of the paintings and drawings included in the first solo exhibition of works by Sonia Gutiérrez, who was at the time in her final semester on the art faculty at the Universidad [...]

The journalist Gloria Valencia Diago introduces Sonia Gutiérrez and discusses her first solo exhibition presented at the Sala Gregorio Vásquez at the National Library in Bogotá. Valencia Diago describes the young artist as “go-go from head to [...]

This document is an excerpt from the first chapter of Curso de historia del arte [Art History Course] (broadcast by Radiotelevisora Nacional de Colombia [Colombian National Radio Television], 1957–58), the television series that was directed and [...]

This article, by an anonymous author, introduces the entomologist and artist Leopoldo Richter—who settled in Colombia in 1935—and describes the scientific work and the painting he did in the Colombian jungles. The article refers to the connection [...]

In this document, excerpted from the “Colombia pregunta” [Colombia Asks] section of La Nueva Prensa [The New Press] magazine, Arturo Bastidas, from the city of Pereira, asks for a definition of Pop Art. The magazine editor replies to his question [...]

This document is excerpted from the catalogue for Los que son [Those Who Are], the exhibition organized by Marta Traba at the Galería Marta Traba in Bogotá (May 3–16, 1968). The catalogue includes ten brief critical and biographical reviews of [...]