Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Published in the Visual Arts Section of La Prensa newspaper, this interview with artist Hugo Zapata by poet and art critic Jesús Gaviria focuses on Zapata’s creative process. Gaviria begins by mentioning that Zapata’s sculpture Geografía [ [...]

In this interview, sculptor Hugo Zapata reflects on his formative years, as well as his work as an educator and the way the academic bureaucracy limited his development as an artist. He speaks of the period he worked in silkscreen printing and of his [...]

Critic Luis Fernando Valencia calls the most recent exhibition of works by Hugo Zapata, which was held at the Medellín Chamber of Commerce, “the best set of works [this artist] has ever exhibited.” Valencia praises Zapata’s work in silkscreen [...]

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 [...]

Yo Digo is the title of the mimeographed publication by artist Félix Ángel that circulated free of charge in Medellín, the capital of the Department of Antioquia, from September 5, 1975 to January 7, 1979. In issue 25, the author defends himself [...]