Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This text is a section of the catalogue to the exhibition of photography that accompanied the Simposio de Justicia Restaurativa y Paz en Colombia held in Cali in 2005. In it, art critic and curator María Iovino introduces the work of Colombian [...]

“Jaime Tarazona. Subdesarrollado” [Jaime Tarazona: Underdeveloped], written by María Iovino, was published in the catalogue Nuevas Propuestas Arte Colombiano 1999 – 2002 [New Works of Colombian Art 1999 – 2002] as the curatorial essay for [...]

This text by María Iovino was published in Nuevas Propuestas: Arte Colombiano 1999–2002, a catalogue of the exhibitions held at the Alliance Française in Bogotá. It voices the curatorial vision underlying the exhibition Íconos (1999) by [...]

This is the brochure for Carros de guerra [War Carts], the exhibition of work by Rodrigo Facundo at the Galería Cuarto Nivel, which was organized as part of Fotología 3 (2004), Tercer Festival Internacional de Fotografía de Bogotá [Third [...]

“Antes de que el mundo fuera” [Before the World Existed] is the essay that María Iovino wrote for the book LUIS ROLDÁN (Segmento I) published in 2007, that presented a retrospective of the artist’s work, which has always been concerned with [...]

In this document, the critic and art curator María Iovino discusses the work of Danilo Dueñas, describing the behavior of some of the elements that the Colombian artist employs in his work and how they influence the space in the works and vice [...]

In this text, researcher María Iovino reflects on the place of performance in Colombian art. She begins with a discussion of María Teresa Hincapié’s work Una cosa es una cosa [A Thing Is a Thing], a performance that was awarded first prize at [...]

In the book Volverse aire [Become Air], published in 2003, María Iovino describes and analyzes Óscar Muñoz’s work from his early stages as a draftsman to the works produced the year the book was published in Bogotá. Special attention is paid to [...]

Entitled “En la historia” [In History], this introduction to Después del límite [Beyond the Limit] summarizes critic and researcher María Iovino’s thinking on drawing and painting. Iovino asserts that Paul Cézanne was one of the artists [...]

This text, which compiles interviews and conversations that took place between art critic and researcher María Iovino and photographer Fernell Franco between 2001 and 2004, is the introduction to the catalogue, Otro Documento. The catalogue was part [...]

This interview in manuscript form between critic and researcher María Iovino and Miguel Ángel Rojas presents various facets of the artist’s life and work, and is part of the curatorial and research project entitled Contratextos (2007–8). It is [...]