Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this latest foray on the international stage, the CAYC presented an updated version of Arte de Sistemas en Latinoamérica in London on November 28, 1974. The exhibition, at the British ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art), included works by [...]

The CAYC produced this newsletter to promote the exhibition Arte de Sistemas en Latinoamérica at the Palazzo dei Diamanti, in Ferrara, Italy. The event opened on May 25, 1975, and the newsletter includes black-and-white photographs of works by [...]

This newsletter announces the presentation of Expoprojeção 73, an event that consisted of a series of experimental films and audiovisuals created by Brazilian artists and selected by the noted Brazilian critic and curator Aracy Amaral [...]

This newsletter announces the presentation of Expoprojeção 73, an event that consisted of a series of experimental films and audiovisuals created by Brazilian artists and selected by the noted Brazilian critic and curator Aracy Amaral [...]

This newsletter announces the exhibition of works from the series La ilustración del arte, by Antonio Dias, the Brazilian experimental avant-garde artist, at the CAYC. The article includes a list of the works in the exhibition and a picture of [...]

This newsletter announces the presentation of three films in the series La ilustración del arte by Antonio Dias at the CAYC in November 1973. Dias had made a name for himself among the Brazilian avant-garde in the late 1960s with his Pop art, [...]

This newsletter announces the presentation of the exhibition Arte de Sistemas at the Encuentro Internacional de Arte de Pamplona, in Spain. The article includes a list of participating artists and their works. This edition of the exhibition, which [...]

This book, from the ABC—Arte Brasileira Contemporânea—collection published by FUNARTE, is about Antônio Dias. The book was written by the critic Paulo Sergio Duarte, who suggests that the artist’s work shattered [...]

While living in New York, Rubens Gerchman announced that he would no longer paint, and began producing objects instead. Nonetheless drawing continued to be his starting point. Throughout his text, he offers observations on the arts scene of the city [...]

This is the script that was used to introduce the films shown at the Cinema de Artista during the sixteenth Bienal de São Paulo in 1981. The critic Ligia Canongia and the visual artist Iole de Freitas wrote what is essentially a synopsis of [...]

In this essay Antonio Dias explains his interest in producing artist’s books, and lists some of his publications. He indicates his preference for projects that require a great deal of knowledge about printing techniques, and mentions his [...]

The artist Rubens Gerchman discusses Pare, the exhibition he jointly presented with Roberto Magalhães, Antonio Dias, Carlos Vergara, and Pedro Escosteguy at the G-4 gallery in Rio de Janeiro in April 1966. Gerchman explains that the exhibition [...]

In this text, Mário Barata discusses the production of Antonio Dias and how it fits into the European art market. He mentions certain formal characteristics of the work, such as confidence in the organization of planes and spaces, the use of [...]

Pierre Restany introduces the exhibition of works by Antonio Dias, making a clear distinction between this artist’s generation and the one that came before him, and identifying this one’s confident optimism and innovative approach coupled [...]

This essay posits the concept of “geometría sensível” [Sensitive Geometry] as one of the unitary characteristics of contemporary Latin American art, and notes the growing interest (within the region and further afield) in [...]