Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In the article “Pintando con números” published in Bogotá-based newspaper El Tiempo on October 13, 1991, art critic José Hernán Aguilar reviews a solo exhibition of work by Carlos Salas Silva. The exhibition was held at Gaula, a venue that [...]

“Un exquisito ‘déjà vu’”is an article written by the critic and historian José Hernán Aguilar. It is a review of an exhibition of paintings by Carlos Salas. The article begins by describing what the author sees as a paradoxical problem [...]

The anthropologist and art critic Natalia Gutiérrez examines some representative works by Colombian artists in order to analyze Colombian art of the 1990s. She believes this method helps her to avoid using general theories that “pigeonhole” them [...]

In this text, Carmen María Jaramillo reviews Autorreflexiones de la pintura, an exhibition of work by Colombian painter Carlos Salas’s held at Galería El Museo in Bogotá in 1994. Jaramillo addresses the formal aspects of Salas’s art as well as [...]

The article “Una mirada que atraviesa objetos”published in El Espectador newspaper discusses Colombian painter Carlos Salas’s conscientious work in the painting medium. Salas explores abstraction, the article asserts, with the rigor of his [...]

This document is the closing chapter of the manuscript “Sujeto es predicado,” Sylvia Juliana Suárez’s master’s thesis in art history. In it, she provides an overview and assessment of José Hernán Aguilar’s work in criticism produced in [...]

In this article, published by the daily newspaper, El Tiempo, on May 24, 1991, the arts journalist and editor, José Hernández, announced the opening of Gaula. This gallery was a new exhibition space for contemporary art, located in the Macarena [...]

Carmen María Jaramillo, the curator of the exhibition A través del espejo [Through the Looking Glass], begins her essay by clarifying the terms and sources she used in her approach to “painting’s self-appraisal.” She reviews the mutable, [...]