Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

The Puerto Rican art critic Ernesto Ruiz de la Mata reviews the 1992 Antonio Navia exhibition [held] at the Museo de Arte e Historia [Art and History Museum] in San Juan. Ruiz de la Mata sees movement and spontaneity in the artist’s ink drawings, [...]

Samuel Cherson, the Cuban critic living in exile in Puerto Rico, discusses the Puerto Rican artist, Antonio Navia, and his interest in mathematics, physics, and scientific contributions to modern technology that he then applies to his art. Cherson [...]

In this article, the Puerto Rican critic Nelson Rivera Rosario discusses several of the works on display at Obras 1974–1984 [Works: 1974–1984], the 1985 exhibition that showcased ten years of Antonio Navia’s art. The critic notes that Navia’s [...]

The French critic and historian Marianne de Tolentino, who lives in the Dominican Republic, lists the artists who took part in the exhibition, Primer Congreso de Artistas Abstractos de Puerto Rico [First Puerto Rican Abstract Artists Conference] that [...]

The Puerto Rican professor and critic Nelson Rivera Rosario discusses three works by Antonio Navia: Espacio-tiempo [Space-Time] (an environment installation involving sculpture, painting, and music); Naves [Vessels] (mobile sculptures); and Ajedrez [...]