Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Aldo Pellegrini writes about the current situation of the debate between Abstraction and Figuration (1968) and presents it as something that has been overcome, while he also points out its avant-garde quality as a demonstration of the vitality of the [...]

The critic writes about Marcelo Bonevardi’s artworks, comparing them to the fragments or the friezes on the walls of an immemorial temple, stating that they propose a profound contemplative attitude. Aldo Pellegrini mentions the importance of the [...]

Aldo Pellegrini presents Luis Benedit’s exhibition Benedit: Pinturas 1966–67 (Galería Rubbers, March–April, 1967), pointing out that this latest production mixes “the wonderful” with humor, achieving images that struggle against [...]

In his introduction to Enio Iommi’s exhibition (at the Galería Bonino, Buenos Aires, 1966), Aldo Pellegrini notes the artist’s awareness of space; that is, his approach to the object created in terms of its relationship to the surrounding void. [...]

The presentation affirms that nonfiguration dominates the visual arts based on the sole convention of absolute creative freedom; thus the only limit for the artist is his medium. In Pellegrini’s judgment, the artist works within a perimeter of pure [...]

This text introduces the paintings by Miguel P. Caride. The critic remarks that the images belong neither to Abstraction nor to the world of dreams, but rather share aspects of both. Pellegrini places these shapes by Caride in an intermediate realm [...]

This document is an essay on Wolfgang Paalen published in the magazine Ciclo. Arte, literatura, pensamiento modernos. [Cycle. Modern Art, Literature, Thought]. In it, Aldo Pellegrini points out the three periods of his work: 1932–35, the period in [...]

Aldo Pellegrini discusses the work of Aldo Paparella, which he says fuses the rational-mathematical with the antirational-vital. According to Pellegrini, this fusion is the result of a search for the most appropriate language for the materials the [...]

Presentation of Rómulo Macció’s work in which the critic maintains that Macció’s most valuable contribution is creative liberty, a stance the artist kept from his first Surrealist paintings to his Free Abstraction period. Although, when Macci [...]

This introductory text for Lea Lublin’s work emphasizes that the formal and informal universes are contrasted in her paintings, as are violence and lyricism in order to reflect the panic of a world populated by monsters and threatened by [...]

Aldo Pellegrini’s text presents the centennial tribute for the death of Count of Lautréamont, Isidore Ducasse. Pellegrini highlights that Ducasse’s work uses canons, or rules, in order to break them and—by means of this mechanis— outwit or [...]

This introductory text for the exhibition Forum: grupo de fotógrafos contemporáneos [Forum: a contemporary photographers’ group] places emphasis on the artist-photographer who, through the developing process, manipulates lights in its subtle [...]

This text is an introduction to the exhibition of oil temperas on canvas, paper, and fiberglass by Juan Carlos Distéfano. In the text, Pellegrini emphasizes that the images taken from the real world do not contradict his achievements in the purely [...]

The art critic sent this letter to Ernesto Deira informing him about the Instituto de Arte Latinoamericano [Latin American Art Institute], which includes the Museo Latinoamericano [Latin American Museum], for which he requests the collaboration of [...]

The text presents the work of Carmelo Carrá stating that they represent the real world seen by someone without prejudice. They deal with an anti-conventional reality, and the result is unpredictable, limitless and open to new discoveries. It is [...]

The article’s objective is to introduce the publication’s character and explain the reason for its production: it claims  “to seek in expression evidence” of the subject’s “hidden structure”; yearns “perhaps also like an irresistible [...]