Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Juan Calzadilla discusses the work of the painter José Campos Biscardi, explaining how hard it was for him to be acknowledged in the Venezuelan art world because he was originally from Colombia. The author attributes it to the fact that Campos [...]

This is the Venezuelan critic Roberto Montero Castro’s review of the exhibition Once Tipos de 1977 (Sala Mendoza, Caracas). He discusses the evolution of the Venezuelan visual arts, suggesting that it was interrupted in the 1950s. He analyzes [...]

In this text, Marta Traba discusses painter José Campos Biscardi’s solo show Campos (Galería Living Art, Caracas, 1973) as well as his participation in different art salons in Venezuela in 1972 and 1973, asserting that his work has grown more [...]

In this article, critic Roberto Montero Castro presents some details on the Proyecto Manhattan [Manhattan Project] of Venezuelan-Colombian artist José Campos Biscardi, whose objective was to emphasize the presence of man in the city. [Castro] [...]