Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This book is part of the ABC (Arte Brasileira Contemporânea) collection, published by Funarte (Fundação Nacional das Artes). As the title suggests, Artur Barrio is about the artist; it includes a selection of his essays, illustrated with a variety [...]

In this text, Artur Barrio explains that the body is the essential support of his art. In his view, the body in and of itself is the work of art by virtue of the simple fact that art entails “action.” Barrio also discusses with complete frankness [...]

The artist Artur Barrio wrote these two ironic, unprecedented texts, using a kind of experimental writing that explores processes and “the fragmentary.” He deployed this kind of writing whether delving into everyday banality (“Fragments”) or [...]

This text is an artistic testimony by Artur Barrio in which he clarifies matters that are the foundation of his work. These include the relationship between the artist and the viewing public, the viewers’ participation in the work, the broadening [...]

Written in August 1978, this text is the artist’s testimony regarding what he calls his Cadernoslivros [notebook-books], which he started making as early as 1966. What Barrio emphasizes about these is the process that stimulates his poetics [poí [...]

This is a poetic text by Artur Barrio, an experimental artist living in Brazil. The piece refers to both the process and the experience of his Situações, activities he carried out throughout the 1970s. In this case, the artist freely (ad lib) [...]

Producing a fragmented narrative (apparently using interlocking single sentences), the author and artist Artur Barrio describes his text as an “experience-in-process” (in fact a Joycean work-in-progress). The essay he calls “Situações” [ [...]