Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

With the text, “Cinco dibujantes” [Five Draftsmen], Eduardo Serrano Rueda, Colombian art critic and curator, presented the exhibition 5 dibujantes. Astudillo/Caballero/Guerrero/ Jaramillo/Truss. The show opened in October 1975 at the Museo de [...]

In this first part of a long article, published in two installments, the artist and curator Félix Ángel charts the rise of the generation of Colombian artists who came to be known as the “Once antioqueños” [Eleven Antioquians] in a critical [...]

The article “Once antioqueños en el M.A.M.” by Eduardo Serrano Rueda discusses the exhibition of the same name held at the Museo de Arte Moderno of Bogotá in 1975. That show featured eleven artists from the city of Medellín, capital of the [...]

This article by Mario Rivero forms part of a book featuring a selection of texts on the outstanding draftsman and printmaker Óscar Jaramillo, and some of his drawings. The text places Jaramillo’s work in the context of the aesthetic concerns of [...]

The text “El dibujo como experiencia vital” written by Alberto González Rodríguez discusses graphic work by Colombian artist Óscar Jaramillo in relation to the historical context and artistic tendencies operative in his native Medellín and in [...]

In this text on the retrospective exhibition of Oscar Jaramillo at the Museo de Arte Moderno of Medellín, poet Elkin Restrepo describes the emergence of a generation of young local artists in the early seventies whose work dealt with the city slums [...]

Yo Digo is the title of the mimeographed publication by artist Félix Ángel that circulated free of charge in Medellín, the capital of the Department of Antioquia, from September 5, 1975 to January 7, 1979. In issue 25, the author defends himself [...]