Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this essay, various aspects of the II Encontro Latino-americano de Artes Plásticas [Second Latin American Meeting of the Visual Arts] held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, are summarized, emphasizing the performing artistic practices and the need to [...]

Olga de Amaral: Cuatro tiempos is the title of the retrospective exhibition of works presented by the textile artist at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Bogotá from November 1993 to February 1994. It is also the title of the catalogue essay written by [...]

Written by Enrique Salinas, this article was included in the cultural section of the Zacatecas (Mexico) newspaper Imagen, of which he was the editor. It reports the opening of the exhibition Barichara, lo visible de lo invisible at Galeria Arroyo de [...]

From Paris, cultural journalist José Hernández announces an exhibition of textile art being held at the Musée d’Art Moderne (MAM). The show, which featured work by Colombian artist Olga de Amaral, opened on April 29, 1981. It exhibited modern [...]

In this article, the theoretician Marta Traba critiques the 1978 Salón Nacional de Artistas. The Salón has been an annual fixture since 1940, and is considered the most important event on the Colombian visual arts calendar. In her article, Traba [...]