Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

The Puerto Rican art historian and critic Eugenio García Gutiérrez takes a critical look at the most important works from the career of Arnaldo Roche, paying particular attention to his self-portraits, and the techniques he used in his work. It [...]

The Puerto Rican critic Enrique García Gutiérrez reviews the exhibition, Asogues, that was held at the Galería Luigi Marrozzini from January through March 1996. The exhibition featured works by the Puerto Rican artist Ada Bobonis, including three [...]

Art critic Enrique García Gutiérrez reviews the IV Bienal de la Cerámica Puertorriqueña [4th Biennial of Contemporary Puerto Rican Ceramics] (1994) organized by Casa Candina. The writer reports that, compared with previous exhibitions, there [...]

Puerto Rican critic Enrique García Gutiérrez wrote this review about the Premio Casa Candina [Casa Candina Prize] 1999: the VI Bienal de la Cerámica Contemporánea Puertorriqueña [6th Biennial of Contemporary Puerto Rican Ceramics]. In the [...]

Puerto Rican critic Enrique García Gutiérrez comments on the VIII Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano y del Caribe [8th San Juan Biennial of Latin American and Caribbean Graphic Art], held in 1988. In spite of all the errors committed in [...]

Puerto Rican art critic Enrique García Gutiérrez comments on the drawings and prints that Marta Pérez García presented in 1999 at the exhibition Dibujos y grabados recientes held at the Galería Botello. García Gutiérrez explains that both [...]

In this essay, the Puerto Rican critic, Enrique García Gutiérrez, offers his comments on the XI Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano y del Caribe [11th San Juan Biennial of Latin American and Caribbean Graphic Art], held in 1995. The [...]

Enrique García Gutiérrez, Puerto Rican art critic, reflects on the public’s lack of interest in graphic art exhibitions. In his opinion, this disinterest is also a reflection of the problems associated with the acceptance of art in general in [...]

In this essay, Puerto Rican critic Enrique García Gutiérrez discusses the nine reduction woodcuts by Marta Pérez García included in the exhibition Huellas held at Casa Candina, San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1991. The author asserts that there is [...]

The author states the artwork that Puerto Rican artist Marta Pérez García produced using the reduction process technique, is figurative, expressionist, symbolic, and is manifest of her concern for society, the environment, and the suffering of the [...]

Puerto Rican critic, Enrique García Gutiérrez, believes that 28 years after it was founded, the Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano y del Caribe [San Juan Biennial of Latin American and Caribbean Graphic Art] now needs to be restructured [...]

The art critic Enrique García Gutiérrez reviews works by Olga Albizu, who returned to Puerto Rico in 1998 after an absence of thirty years to exhibit twenty-two of her canvases. After a brief biographical note about the artist, García Gutiérrez [...]

In this document, Puerto Rican critic Enrique García Gutiérrez comments on the work created by Susana Espinosa, an Argentine ceramicist living in Puerto Rico. [Some of] this work was exhibited at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo [Museum of [...]

Puerto Rican art critic Enrique García Gutiérrez considers the Bienal de Cerámica Contemporánea Puertorriqueña [Biennial of Contemporary Puerto Rican Ceramics](1988) a good start for the development of the discipline of ceramics on the island. [...]