Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this text, artist Ricardo Basbaum reflects on specific aspects of his production in order to investigate the broader issues underlying his Novas Bases para a Personalidade (NBP) project. By means of the oral style of the text, the artist engages [...]

The text investigates the possibility that art critics will recover their effectiveness, given an alleged decline in the field. Basbaum comments on the need to generate new languages in order to come up with new ideas. The text states that critics [...]

This article by Brazilian artist and art critic Ricardo Basbaum examines some aspects of the connection between text and image on the basis of the philosophical distinction Gilles Deleuze establishes between “enunciation” and “visibility.” [...]

In his article, the artist Ricardo Basbaum suggests applying a more rigorous theory to the painting produced in the 1980s, especially in Brazil, with the specific goal of demystifying the so-called Geração 80. The author begins by establishing [...]

The introduction/preface written by Ricardo Basbaum explains the collection of texts with a range of perspectives, from critics, artists, art researchers, and historians (many published earlier, and some out of circulation). His purpose was to [...]

The Brazilian artist Ricardo Basbaum analyzes the work of the sculptor and painter Sérgio Romagnolo. The writer emphasizes that Romagnolo’s investigations related to common spaces actually involve the entire process in which the artist’s task is [...]

This text by artists Ricardo Basbaum and Eduardo Coimbra is a public response to Argumentação contra a morte da arte, a compilation of articles by poet and art critic Ferreira Gullar that were published in the daily Jornal do Brasil. Basbaum and [...]