Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This article reviews the exhibition Summertime at the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, December 1991-February 1992. It describes the exhibition as “retrospective-festive, that includes young artists—those who passed or did not pass through this [...]

The text succinctly describes the nature of the gallery at the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas when it states that the artists it presents are those who “do not have access to the traditional exhibition centers.” It concludes by reporting that [...]

The article reports that “Italian art critic and poet Enrico R. Comi, director of the magazine/book Spazio Humano [Human Space] during the XII Jornadas Internacionales de la Crítica [12th International Symposium of Criticism] in Buenos Aires “ [...]

This short article reviews a group exhibition that included Pablo Suárez, Miguel Harte and Marcelo Pombo at the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas [Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center] in December 1989. It describes the works presented by the artists and [...]

Under the guise of an interview with visual artist Sebastián Gordín, this article sets out to review the exhibition that he presented in 1992 at the entrance to the ICI (Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana [Institute for Iberian-American [...]

Following the exhibition El Tao del Arte (Buenos Aires: Centro Cultural Recoleta, 1997), Marcelo Pachecho points out in this article that “while the Rojas effect was being felt in Buenos Aires, some skirmishes happened among critics, historians, [...]

Following the El Tao del Arte exhibition (Buenos Aires: Centro Cultural Recoleta, May 13–June 8, 1997), Pacheco describes Galería del Rojas’s character during its beginnings: the curatorial policy of Jorge Gumier-Maier (its director), the [...]

In this text, which makes up the exhibition catalog Expone Marcelo Pombo. Producción 88–89 (Buenos Aires: Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, October 3–18, 1989), Jorge Gumier-Maier interprets and describes Pombo’s work. He links it to everyday and [...]

Jorge Gumier-Maier and Magdalena Jitrik point out that the objective the Galería del Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas aimed for since its inception was “to create space for a large group of young artists whose works were not part of the accepted and [...]

In this article, the art critic Fabián Lebenglik reviews Tutti fruti, the exhibition of works by the photographer Alberto Goldenstein at the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas (October–November 1991). He discusses the works and compares them, at a [...]

The article reviews the Harte, Pombo, Suárez III exhibition (Buenos Aires: Fundación Banco Patricios, from November 4–27, 1992). It describes the characteristics of the works presented by each one of the artists—Miguel Harte, Marcelo Pombo, and [...]

The text describes the Galería del Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas as a “a mental place that presents the art that tunes in exactly with the current times,” mentioning that, “in spite of having a joke of a budget, the Rojas space became a [...]

Invitation to Alfredo Londaibere’s exhibition (Buenos Aires: Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, June, 1991 [...]

The text narrates, as it explains, how the Galería del Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas was born; the main traits of the works and artists that it housed; the support and enthusiasm received from the first moments by already acclaimed artists such as [...]

Following the recent Benito Laren exhibition at the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas (Buenos Aires), the articles mentions the “discovery” of this “young” artist” that is “completely removed from the local art milieu.” Lebenglick mentions [...]

The article reviews the exhibition El Rojas presenta: Algunos Artistas [The Rojas presents: Some Artists] (Buenos Aires: Centro Cultural Recoleta, from August 26 to September 6, 1992).   He describes the Galería del Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas [...]