Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This text by Guillermo Whitelow celebrates the power of visionary ideas—specifically, Gyula Kosice’s The Hydrospatial City [La ciudad hidroespacial]. The author compares The Hydrospatial City to the Tower of Babel as a genuine attempt “to reach [...]

Guillermo Whitelow explains the origin of the La postfiguración exhibition at the Museo de Arte Moderno (Buenos Aires, 1982). He also aesthetically defines “postfiguration” by exploring the nexus between appearances and reality [...]

Guillermo Whitelow writes about how prone the Argentinean artists are to group themselves into three distinct tendencies. In the first group (José A. Fernández Muro, Sarah Grilo, Miguel Ocampo, Kasuya Sakai, Clorindo Testa), he points out they have [...]