Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

“Observaciones” by Jaime Iregui, the artist and cultural agent, is the text from the first section of Tándem 2, the publication that also reported on the workshops presented at the exhibition Observaciones. Obra en Tándem con Carlos Salas [...]

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 [...]

The Museo de Arte Moderno [Museum of Modern Art] of Bogotá (MAM) printed this catalog to introduce the exhibition, Pantoja de Bolivia [Pantoja from Bolivia] (1964). The document provides a biography of Óscar Pantoja in which he is shown to be a [...]

This document is the catalogue published by the Museo de Arte Moderno of Bogotá (MAM) on the occasion of the exhibition of Peruvian painter Fernando de Szyszlo entitled Pinturas sobre el poema de Atahualpa (1964). It contains two black and white [...]

This fully illustrated catalogue to the Primer Salón Intercol de Artistas Jóvenes [First Intercol Salon of Young Artists] (1964) is divided into five parts: the cover, featuring a photograph of the exhibition that took place at the first seat of [...]

In this article, Argentine art critic Marta Traba presents the outcome of the Primer Salón Intercol de Artistas Jóvenes [First Intercol Salon of Young Artists] (1964), which she describes as a way to come into contact with emerging trends in [...]

Gloria Zea, the director of the Museo de Arte Moderno of Bogotá, Ángel Kalenberg, manager of the Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales of Montevideo, Uruguay, and Axel Stein, director of the exhibition hall of the Fundación Eugenio Mendoza, in Caracas [...]

In this text, critic Marta Traba reviews the exhibition entitled Pintura y Grabado Hoy en Venezuela [Painting and Printmaking in Venezuela Today] held at the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango in Bogotá in 1968. She questions the representativeness of [...]

In this 1968 article, Marta Traba discusses the conservative, violent reaction to the exhibition Espacios Ambientales [Environmental Spaces] at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Bogotá. Traba defends the exhibition and supports the experimental approach [...]

The article entitled “Seropositivo, el contagio con la realidad” [Seropositive: Infected by Reality] was published in the newspaper El Nuevo Siglo [The New Century] on January 20, 1994. It was a review of the exhibition of the Seropositivo (1994 [...]

Art critic Miguel González wrote the text “Sobre Marta Elena Vélez” for the exhibition Marta Elena Vélez [1980-1986] held at the Museo de Arte Moderno of Medellín (MAMM). González compares Vélez’s first exhibition, which took place in [...]

The brochure Trastorno: diálogo entre Jaime Iregui y Carlos Salas records a conversation held between the two Colombian artists in May 1999, days before their joint exhibition at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Pereira. The Pereira exhibition would [...]

The catalogue for the exhibition Tumbas (1963) by Juan Antonio Roda consists of a two-page leaflet; on the first page, which is fully illustrated, is the exhibition title and artist’s name. On the next page, there are four paragraphs written by the [...]

For Marta Traba, the Fernando de Szyszlo exhibition in Bogotá (Colombia) evidences that “the mistake does not lie in wanting to be American, but in how one is American.” In her opinion, the series of works by the Peruvian painter inspired by the [...]

In 1984, the Museo de Arte Moderno of Bogotá (MAM) in conjunction with the Flota Mercante Grancolombiana published a large-format book entitled Ramírez Villamizar with the most complete set of reproductions of work by this Colombian artist found in [...]