Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In a text entitled “El Arte y la violencia en la era del narcotráfico” that deals with art and violence, Álvaro Medina describes and analyzes the radical transformation that the armed conflict in Colombia underwent in the early eighties. In it [...]

This essay was written by Jorge Glusberg, the Argentine curator and art critic, as the introduction to the catalogue for the I Bienal Internacional de Video-Arte [First International Biennial of Video Art] that was organized by the Museo de Arte [...]

In this essay, the Colombian artist and theoretician Juan Mejía discusses independently two images of a rhinoceros, each of which appeared at different times in the history of Colombian art. The first image is part of a mural painted on the wall of [...]

The Revista Arte Internacional, published by the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, dedicated its 15−16 edition to the theme “Latin America: Identity and Art.” In a special entry of the section “Registro,” Javier Gil, the Colombian art [...]

This essay, written by the art curator María Clara Bernal and published in the catalogue for the exhibition Displaced (2007), explains why it is important to address the subject of displacement as an essential feature of the contemporary world of [...]

“Anexo 1 – Entrevista con José Alejandro Restrepo” is the third and final part of the book Cruces by Colombian art critic Natalia Gutiérrez. The book, published in 2000, was the result of her master’s thesis in history and theory of art and [...]

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 [...]

This document is the program for the performance Parquedades: escenas de parque para una actriz, video y música [Sparingness:Park Scenes for an Actress, Video and Music] (1987), a video and action conceived by José Alejandro Restrepo to be [...]

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 [...]

Critic and art researcher María Iovino presents the positions and recent reflections of artist José Alejandro Restrepo in an interview conducted in 2007 on the occasion of his exhibition Contratextos. The conversation addresses some of the artist [...]

In this document, José Alejandro Restrepo ponders the various problems related to the impossibility of accepting an objective interpretation of the nature and culture of Latin America/South America. This meditation starts with the nomenclature given [...]