Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

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 [...]

Plica was a group exhibition organized by the Galería Ars Forum (Caracas, 1997). The three participants were Venezuelan artists: Pablo Ballini, Dulce Gómez, and Luis Romero. The catalogue for the exhibition was created in the form of a poster that [...]

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 [...]

In this text, curator Adolfo Wilson explains why the fifth edition of the Bienal de Artes Visuales Christian Dior featured solely painting and not other artistic media. He describes the obstacles he had to overcome to hold a painting salon in 1997, [...]

Ruth Auerbach introduces Landescape, the exhibition of works by Dulce Gómez at her first solo show, at the Galería Alternativa in Caracas in 1994. In her poetic essay, Auerbach describes the salient features of this Venezuelan artist’s paintings [...]