Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

The curator Julieta González discusses the work presented by two contemporary artists, Juan Nascimento and Daniela Lovera, in the La colección exhibition at the Sala Mendoza(Caracas, 1998). González indicates that there is a conceptual basis of [...]

This essay by the curator Julieta González is a preface to a book published by the Museo Alejandro Otero (2000) that collected articles related to the debate about “identity” in Latin America in 1965. The debate arose as a response to an article [...]

In this essay, curator Julieta González discusses artist Claudio Perna, specifically the way he uses photography and his archive-based methodology. González argues that Perna’s photographs can be analyzed in terms of the concept of the “index [...]

The curator Julieta González assesses the artwork of Mariana Bunimov shown in the exhibition La Señora Lumpuy o la moral del juguete (Caracas: Museo Alejandro Otero, 2000). The curator sees it as the result of the artist’s search for identity, [...]

Julieta González ponders the urban and artistic context of Gego’s work. According to the former, the latter’s work could be interpreted as a sort of map of the dissolution of the modernist canon, in both formal and self-referential terms. The [...]

Julieta González reflects on the major trends in contemporary Venezuelan art, suggesting that the dominant movement among them is art derived from a particular context and involving a predetermined space and discourse that expresses local themes. [...]

In this essay, María de Mater O'Neill, Marimar Benítez, Julieta González, and Enrique Renta, who are all involved in art, join together to discuss their ideas about Conceptual art. O’Neill explains the development of Conceptual art, and suggests [...]