Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This text is an interview with João Cândido Galvão, curator of the XXI São Paulo Biennial, by Norma Freire and Agnaldo Farias. In it, Galvão discusses some of the problems that complicated the organization of the biennial, including [...]

João Cândido Galvão retrospectively analyzes Fernando Velloso’s work. The essay describes Velloso’s artistic career in the early 1970s and his work as a figurative artist before becoming interested in geometric abstraction. In the 1980s, he [...]

In this essay, the chief curator of the twenty-first Bienal de São Paulo, João Cândido Galvão, explains the very ambiguous criteria he used for the selection of works: “man.” In his opinion, art does not exist without “man” at its center [...]