Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this essay, curator María Luz Cárdenas provides a brief chronological overview of the work of Venezuelan artist Pedro Morales, placing Morales’s production in a timeframe that spans from 1988 to the mid-nineties. During that period, the [...]

In this essay, Ángel Luque, the Spanish artist who lived in Venezuela from 1955 until 1967, criticizes both the exaggerated rationalism of the twentieth century (that rejects any form of subjectivity) and the capitalist system. He also dismisses the [...]

This is the report on the project Artelab: Laboratorios de Artes Electrónicas in which Colombian artist Juan Reyes attempts to create an inter-university space. The aim of the project, which was initially formulated in Bogotá, is to encourage the [...]

In this essay Juan Reyes expresses his opinion on what the contemporary artist “should be” in countries like Colombia, and on trans-disciplinary relationships as the basis for the development of knowledge. Throughout the essay, Reyes repeatedly [...]

In this essay on the subject of painting, the renowned critic Ferreira Gullar, whose sphere of interest was poetry and the “concrete art” movement, discusses his thoughts on the latter movement. In his view, art is an autonomous reality, though [...]

In her review the researcher Gladys Yunes compares Jesús Rafael Soto’s work with the theories of quantum physics; her main objective is to show that the relationship between art and science has been explored throughout the twentieth century. From [...]

Dorothy McMeekin examines Diego Rivera’s understanding of science and technology and the application of his knowledge to the overall creative and thematic design of the mural cycle Detroit Industry at the Detroit Institute of Arts, painted between [...]

This is the text of the program for the seminars that were proposed by the Centro de Arte y Comunicación [Art and Communication Center] in 1970. The underlying theme of the sessions was the relationship between art and other disciplines or phenomena [...]

The text finds the problem of the lack of connection between the “men of reflection (scientists, philosophers, theorists) and “men of action (artists, technicians, planners, operators)” producing, as a result, “thinkers removed from reality [...]