Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Five continents and one city: The Tercer Salón Internacional de Pintura [3rd International Painting Salon], held in Mexico City in 2000, was based on the selections made by five curators, each of whom chose three contemporary artists from their [...]

In this text published on the occasion of the fifteenth anniversary of the founding of Arte en Colombia, Cuban critic Gerardo Mosquera emphasizes the effort involved in starting a journal specializing in Latin American art. He argues that this is [...]

In this essay, the Cuban critic and curator Gerardo Mosquera analyzes Color que soy [The Color I Am] (1999) by the Colombian artist Delcy Morelos in terms of its pictorial language, and discusses how this language prompts a range of different [...]

The introduction to the catalogue for the exhibition of Latin American art Ante América [Regarding America]—presented in late 1992 at the Luis Ángel Arango Library and the Banco de la República in Bogotá—that was written by the art critic [...]

Gerardo Mosquera considers the usefulness of the idea of Latin American art, ultimately taking a firm position against it as it has been understood up to now. He begins by describing Latin American culture’s “neurosis of identity” as the [...]

In this text, Gerardo Mosquera introduces the exhibition Ante América [Facing the Americas] with an essay describing the common social, political and economic framework that has fostered the art of what he calls “el Sur” or “Nuestra América [...]