Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

According to Tadeu Chiarelli, contemporary international art has moved away from personal expression and embraced an industrial aesthetic. This is the result of a serial, modular logic that rejects any attempt to stress the physical and chemical [...]

This text by writer Benedito Nunes is a comparison of two works, both of them urban scenes from his collection: a painting by Emmanuel Nassar and a photograph by Gratuliano Bibas. Drawing on the author’s background in philosophy, the text is a [...]

In this review of Emmanuel Nassar’s work, Tadeu Chiarelli discusses the paintings the artist produced in the mid-1980s, in which he detects an attraction to the widespread erudite Constructivist tradition coupled with a certain discomfort, [...]

Writer and essayist Benedito Nunes, who was associated with the Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPa), wrote this text about an exhibition of work by Emmanuel Nassar. In it, he argues that twentieth-century painting entails two major gestures: a [...]