Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Curator Cecilia Fajardo-Hill addresses the work of the artists featured in the ninth Premio Eugenio Mendoza in terms of a number of visual and conceptual issues. In her view, the event attempted to expand and question any possible definition of [...]

This essay by curator Rina Carvajal was written for Uno, Dos, Tres, Cuatro, an exhibition featuring Venezuelan artists Alfred Wenemoser, Héctor Fuenmayor, Roberto Obregón, and Antonieta Sosa held at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Caracas in 1991. [...]

Elsa Flores is an Argentinean who became an art critic in Venezuela. She wrote this essay about conceptual art and how conceptual language operates in Héctor Fuenmayor’s work. Flores begins by peering through a philosophical and linguistic [...]

This (unsigned) article is a review of the exhibition of photocopies produced by the artists María Zabala, Roberto Obregón, Diego Rísquez, Joe, Lorenzo Berman, Sigfredo Chacón, Héctor Fuenmayor, and Claudio Perna. The exhibition was held at the [...]

This is José Ignacio Herrera’s essay about the works on paper (or in which paper plays a key role) created by three of the four participants in the exhibition Uno, Dos, Tres, Cuatro (Caracas: Museo de Bellas Artes, 1991): Héctor Fuenmayor, [...]

In this article, Elsa Flores reviews the works by the eleven Venezuelan artists who participated in the exhibition Once Tipos (Sala Mendoza, Caracas, 1981): William Stone, Corina Briceño, Rolando Dorrego, Héctor Fuenmayor, Ana María Mazzei, Manuel [...]

In this essay Eugenio Espinoza names nine artists (himself included) who, in his opinion, have distinguished themselves in the field of contemporary art as being creators of a body of work that “is neither art nor anti-art, but something in between [...]

Aurora Blyde interviews Héctor Fuenmayor on the occasion of the exhibition CCS-10. Arte venezolano actual (Caracas: Galería de Arte Nacional, 1993). Blyde asks him about his particular view of “art,” which is essentially understanding the [...]