Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this text, the curator Luis Ángel Duque exposes the reasons why the sixth Bienal de Artes Visuales Christian Dior (1999) is dedicated to hypermedia. In his view, each of the twenty-four participants in the exhibition used imagery and expressed [...]

Venezuelan journalist and filmmaker Gustavo Báez reports that Venezuelan artists José Antonio Hernández-Díez, Jesús Rafael Soto, and Gego enjoyed a warm reception at the twenty-third São Paulo Biennial in 1996. Báez explains that the theme of [...]

In this article, the critic Roberto Guevara discusses the origins and emergence of new languages in contemporary art, which he groups under the heading of “conceptual art.” He mentions a number of examples, such as happenings, installations, and [...]

This essay by the curator María Elena Ramos was published on the occasion of El espíritu de los tiempos (Ateneo de Caracas, 1991), the retrospective exhibition (in six parts) of the work of the Venezuelan artist José Antonio Hernández-Diez. The [...]

This essay was written for an exhibition of work by José Antonio Hernández-Diez, Saint Guinefort and Other Devotions (Caracas: Sala RG [in the Casa de Rómulo Gallegos], 1991) by the critic Luis Ángel Duque [including a rough English translation [...]

This is the journalist Rubén Wisoztki’s review of San Guinefort y otras devociones (Caracas: Sala RG, 1991), the first one-man show presented by the Venezuelan artist José Antonio Hernández-Diez. It records the artist’s thoughts on his work, [...]

In this essay Eugenio Espinoza names nine artists (himself included) who, in his opinion, have distinguished themselves in the field of contemporary art as being creators of a body of work that “is neither art nor anti-art, but something in between [...]

The journalist Aurora Blyde interviews José Antonio Hernández-Diez during the course of the exhibition CCS-10. Arte venezolano actual (Caracas: Galería de Arte Nacional, 1993). The Venezuelan visual artist discusses the subjects he explores in his [...]