Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This newsletter announces the CAYC’s presentation at the Agora Studio in Maastricht, Holland. This event was another stop on the international tour organized for the exhibition Hacia un perfil del arte latinoamericano that, in this case, [...]

In this latest foray on the international stage, the CAYC presented an updated version of Arte de Sistemas en Latinoamérica in London on November 28, 1974. The exhibition, at the British ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art), included works by [...]

This newsletter, which is written in English, announces the September 1975 opening of a new edition (with a different title) of Hacia un perfil del arte latinoamericano, the exhibition presented by the CAYC at the École cantonale des beaux- [...]

The CAYC produced this newsletter to promote the exhibition Arte de Sistemas en Latinoamérica at the Palazzo dei Diamanti, in Ferrara, Italy. The event opened on May 25, 1975, and the newsletter includes black-and-white photographs of works by [...]

This newsletter announces the list of participating artists in Arte de Sistemas en Latinoamérica, the traveling exhibition that was organized by the CAYC and, on this occasion, presented at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Belgium [...]

The CAYC restated its Third World solidarity in what was then Yugoslavia (now Croatia), where it had already organized exhibitions in the past. This newsletter includes a list of participating artists whose works were shown in that edition of the [...]

On the occasion of the CAYC’s foray into Belgium, this newsletter published a list of the artists whose works were shown at Arte de Sistemas en Latinoamérica, the traveling exhibition that the center presented at the Internationaal [...]

As part of the Argentinean institution’s European tour in 1974, this newsletter announces the opening of an exhibition of Latin American art in July organized by the CAYC at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg, Germany, with a presentation [...]

This newsletter introduces Hacia un perfil del arte latinoamericano, the exhibition organized by the CAYC and shown at the Amadis gallery in Madrid. The event took place after the exhibition’s earlier runs at the III Bienal de Arte  [...]

Listado de obras de artistas argentinos e internacionales participantes de la exhibición Hacia un perfil del arte latinoamericano, inaugurada el 22 de junio de 1972 en la sede del CAYC. Trátase de la primera presentación en [...]

A list of works by Argentinean and international participants in the exhibition Hacia un perfil del arte latinoamericano, presented at the Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Emilio Caraffa, in the city of Córdoba, Argentina.   [...]

Included in the art history research paper La experimentación en el arte colombiano del siglo XX, written by María Teresa Guerrero and Ivonne Pini, is a chapter entitled “El arte colombiano busca el concepto”. This section refers to the visual [...]

Written by Marta Traba and published in the magazine Arte en Colombia, “El VII Salón Atenas” is perhaps the harshest criticism of the Colombian salons held in November. Traba argues that despite belief to the contrary, the Salon Atenas has not [...]

The book Las artes plásticas en la América Latina: del trance a lo transitorio [The Visual Arts in Latin America: From Trance to Transitory], written by the Brazilian art critic Frederico Morais, is essentially divided into two parts: (i) “ [...]

In this text, historian and critic Germán Rubiano Caballero provides an overview of Colombian art from the twenties through the eighties. He analyzes each decade on the basis of two key criteria: how the modern is constructed and the tension between [...]

Agustín Parra reviews Kilka Wawa, the exhibition presented in 1994 at the Luis Ángel Arango Library in Bogotá, the capital city of Colombia. Kilka Wawa [Child Writing] consisted of a series of graphic aids for teaching the Inga language. This [...]

Entitled “En la historia” [In History], this introduction to Después del límite [Beyond the Limit] summarizes critic and researcher María Iovino’s thinking on drawing and painting. Iovino asserts that Paul Cézanne was one of the artists [...]

The art critic Eduardo Serrano discusses some of the works of art produced by Antonio Caro from 1970 through 1977, which link the chronological importance of the works to the exhibitions in which they were shown. He describes the rough nature of the [...]

Artist and critic Luis Camnitzer analyzes the production of Antonio Caro on the basis of several works Caro produced between 1975 and 1995, specifically: El carrito de Marlboro [The Marlboro Cart], Colombia Cocacola [Coca-Cola],  Todo está muy Caro [...]

The text, “¿Arte joven?” [Young Art?] by art critic Eduardo Serrano Rueda introduces the exhibition Nombres nuevos en el arte de Colombia [New Names in Colombian Art] held at the Museo de Arte Moderno [Museum of Modern Art] in Bogotá in March [...]