Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This newsletter announces the opening of El arte en posición crítica: práctica y teoría, the exhibition organized in August 1975 by the well-known international critic Pierre Restany, who was visiting Buenos Aires as a [...]

This newsletter announces an exhibition of silkscreen prints by Nicolás García Uriburu. The article includes a brief text in which the art critic Pierre Restany explains what these prints are about. There is also a reproduction of one [...]

The Primera Bienal de Escultura was held in Uruguay in 1969. The controversial French critic Pierre Restany was one of the guests at the event. Nelson Di Maggio interviewed Restany, and this document reports on some of the latter’s thoughts [...]

The letter from [Greek artist] Takis tells Pierre Restany that he has not represented Greece at any international cultural event since Greece’s democracy was suspended. Takis thanks Restany for the invitation and hopes he understands the situation [...]

In this text—the foreword to the exhibition catalog El Tao del Arte exhibition (Buenos Aires: Centro Cultural Recoleta, May 13–June 8, 1997)—, Jorge Gumier-Maier narrates how the conditions of the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, “a place [...]

Regulations stating both which are the invited artists and the value of the prizes and norms that will be ruling the presentation of the artworks; this includes the materials to be attached and the deadlines [...]