Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This is an essay by the researcher and curator Carmen María Jaramillo published in a monograph on the Colombian artist Beatriz González. The author’s goal is to shed light on how González’s work exposes and challenges [...]

In her essay “Apolonio: un objeto encontrado”—about the painter Luis Luna’s series El libro de Apolonio—the critic and curator Carmen María Jaramillo takes a long look at the work of this Colombian artist. Jaramillo scrutinizes the visual [...]

This essay appeared in the catalogue for La sensación del tiempo humano. Homenaje a Giorgione, the exhibition of works by the Colombian artist Luis Hernando Giraldo (b. 1946) that was presented in March 1999 at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Bogotá. [...]

In this text, Carmen María Jaramillo reviews Autorreflexiones de la pintura, an exhibition of work by Colombian painter Carlos Salas’s held at Galería El Museo in Bogotá in 1994. Jaramillo addresses the formal aspects of Salas’s art as well as [...]

In this chapter of Otras Miradas = Other Glances, the critic Carmen María Jaramillo reviews the visual art produced by the Colombian artist Patricia Bravo. Jaramillo devotes part of the chapter and some of her interview to discussing the work Mata [...]

This text by curator and art critic Carmen María Jaramillo was published in the catalogue to the exhibition of Colombian artist Gustavo Zalamea entitled La ciudad y la pintura: obra reciente 1992–1994 (Bogotá: Fondo Cultural Cafetero, 1994) held [...]

In this essay—that appeared in the leaflet for the exhibition En la Trama personal [In the Personal Web] that was presented at the Alonso Garcés Gallery in Bogotá in June-July 2004—the art critic Carmen María Jaramillo discusses the latest [...]

In this essay, the curator Carmen María Jaramillo discusses the work of Manuel Hernández in great detail, mentioning his artistic sense of place and his references to the context of art and the history of Colombia. Jaramillo describes Hernández as [...]

In this text, Colombian curator and art critic Carmen María Jaramillo discusses the contradictions and complexities surrounding the beginnings of modern art in Colombia. She places the emergence of modern art in the framework of the historical and [...]

This article by Carmen María Jaramillo, the twentieth-century Colombian art historian, covers the main aspects of a lifetime of work by Sergio Trujillo Magnenat. This critical meditation serves as a referential framework for the exhibition Sergio [...]

“Obregón en contexto” is the title of an essay by the art historian and critic Carmen María Jaramillo, written in 2001, that appeared in the book El mago del Caribe on the artwork of Alejandro Obregón. The essay includes a text by the writer [...]

This is the text for Otras Miradas = Other Glances, written by the historian and art critic Carmen María Jaramillo Jiménez for the exhibition that was organized with the help of the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2004. The [...]

This essay by the critic and curator Carmen María Jaramillo was published in the leaflet produced for the Danilo Dueñas exhibition called Local [bog-ccs] that was presented at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, Sofía Imber (MACCSI) [ [...]

In this interview, the art historian Carmen María Jaramillo and the artist María Fernanda Cardoso discuss several of the latter’s works, particularly the series Coronas funerarias [Funeral Wreaths], (1991) and its connection to the violence in [...]

The catalogue for the exhibition, Otras miradas = Other Glances (2004) includes the historian Carmen María Jaramillo’s interview of María Elvira Escallón, which focused on the latter’s series Desde adentro [From Within] (2003) that was [...]

Carmen María Jaramillo, the curator of the exhibition A través del espejo [Through the Looking Glass], begins her essay by clarifying the terms and sources she used in her approach to “painting’s self-appraisal.” She reviews the mutable, [...]

This text by Carmen María Jaramillo discusses the exhibition, Colombia, años 70: Revista al arte colombiano (2002), curated by artist John Castles. Jaramillo presents the idea that some of the pioneering works of contemporary art in Colombia must [...]