Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In the first part of his text for the catalogue to the Primera Bienal del Paisaje de la Tabacalera Nacional held in Caracas in 1986, curator Adolfo Wilson provides a historical overview of the landscape genre in the history of Western art. In the [...]

In this review, Adolfo Wilson discusses the work produced by Jacobo Borges over the course of two decades, from the 1960s to the 1980s. Wilson reviews the visual artist’s most significant work from that period, analyzing his production as though it [...]

In this text, curator Adolfo Wilson explains why the fifth edition of the Bienal de Artes Visuales Christian Dior featured solely painting and not other artistic media. He describes the obstacles he had to overcome to hold a painting salon in 1997, [...]

In this text, researcher Adolfo Wilson analyzes Venezuelan painter Emilia Azcárate’s work on the basis of the notions of “trace” and “sign.” According to Wilson, Azcárate’s art can be understood as a “linguistic and communicative [...]

This essay by the curator Adolfo Wilson is divided into two parts. In the first part, Wilson reviews the history of painting since the Renaissance, presenting it as an imaginary expression of reality. That approach was steadily abandoned until the [...]