Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Curator Cecilia Fajardo-Hill addresses the work of the artists featured in the ninth Premio Eugenio Mendoza in terms of a number of visual and conceptual issues. In her view, the event attempted to expand and question any possible definition of [...]

Critic María Luz Cárdenas explains the various categories used to classify the works produced in the seventies by the artists participating in the twenty-fifth Salón Nacional de Arte Aragua (Maracay, 2000). Her curatorial thesis for the event [...]

In this essay, Ruth Auerbach—the art critic and curator of the IV Bienal de Arte de Guayana (Ciudad Bolívar, 1994)—reflects on the challenge of positioning the biennial as a space devoted to the promotion of emerging Venezuelan art. Auerbach [...]

In his prologue to the catalogue for the exhibition of work by Sigfredo Chacón held at the Centro Culural Corp Group in Caracas in 2000, curator Miguel Miguel identifies Chacón as part of a “breed” of creators born in the mid-20th century who [...]

This essay, written by Vicente Lecuna on the occasion of the Venezuelan artist Sigfredo Chacón’s second one-man show, provides a broad overview of the exhibition. Referring to Chacón’s language, Lecuna finds that there is a well-defined system [...]

Curator Lourdes Blanco opens this essay, written for Sigfredo Chacón’s exhibition Dibujos y pinturas recientes [Recent Drawings and Paintings] (Caracas: Sala RG, 1989), with a legend recounted by Pliny the Elder in his work, Historia Natural [ [...]

This (unsigned) article is a review of the exhibition of photocopies produced by the artists María Zabala, Roberto Obregón, Diego Rísquez, Joe, Lorenzo Berman, Sigfredo Chacón, Héctor Fuenmayor, and Claudio Perna. The exhibition was held at the [...]

This interview by Aurora Blyde with Venezuelan artist Sigfredo Chacón took place in the framework of the exhibition CCS-10. Arte venezolano actual held at the Fundación Galería de Arte Nacional in Caracas in 1993. The topics addressed include the [...]