Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this article the journalist A. M. I. researches the field of special edition books. She interviews Luisa Palacios, the printmaker and director of TAGA (Taller de Artistas Gráficos Asociados) in Caracas, tracing the origins of this kind of [...]

The journalist Yasmín Monsalve interviews members of the Taller Huella at the exhibition they organized in November 1992 at the Sala CANTV (Compañía Anónima Nacional de Teléfonos de Venezuela). She also reports on the group’s origins and [...]

This newspaper article (signed with the initials L. B. S.) is a review of the founding of the TAGA (Taller de Artistas Gráficos Asociados), which is described as being an extension of the 1960s printmaking movement connected to the workshop of Luisa [...]

The journalist Emilio Santana interviews Ángel Luque (1927?2014). The latter, a Spanish artist who lives in Venezuela, describes Informalism as an avant-garde form of expression, stressing its relationship to the concept of “chaos.” He discusses [...]

In this essay about the selection of illustrations to accompany text, the Venezuelan curator Corina Michelena reflects on the blankness of the sheet of paper. In the case of an illustration, she suggests, that blankness actually represents the [...]

In this review of the opening of Gego’s exhibition at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo [Contemporary Art Museum] in Caracas in 1977, Luis Lozada Soucre reports on the great, well-attended event. He quotes Marta Traba, and interviews people in [...]

F. Valladares reviews the III Exposición Nacional de Dibujo y Grabado held at the Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de la Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas. While the author remarks on the work of young Venezuelan printmakers like Luisa [...]

Venezuelan artist, curator, and cultural manager Manuel Espinoza presents the exhibition La mano, la seda, el color [Hand, Silk and Color] (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo of Caracas, 1978), which featured prints on silk by nine Venezuelan artists: [...]

This text by Venezuelan writer María Fernanda Palacios offers perspective on the development of engraving in Venezuela in the 1960s in light of the activity of El Taller de Luisa Palacios, who was her mother. She relates the beginnings of the [...]