Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this text, Luciano Gusmão explains how artist Lotus Lobo appropriates industrial lithography common in the state of Minas Gerais in the first half of the 20th century. Lobo employs old print stones used for the packaging of butter, animal fat, [...]

In this text, Luciano Gusmão explains that artist Lotus Lobo poetically develops a form that alters an image’s original information by reproducing a selected module on its surface. The information is conveyed by a support and by the meaning of the [...]

In this article, Luciano Gusmão writes at length about Lótus Lobo’s prints and her ideas for a “caipira” [rancher] style of aesthetic nationalism based on an approach that is very closely related to Pop Art. Her work presents a variety of [...]