Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this essay, Luis Enrique Pérez Oramas analyzes a fragment of modern Latin American art history, presented through the form of “penetrable” works. The critic describes the development of the form with respect to its representation as [...]

This article by artist Javier Téllez is a response to an earlier article by fellow Venezuelan artist Eugenio Espinoza on the practice of installations as “cubiculismo.” Téllez asserts that it is not surprising that Espinoza’s text contains [...]

In this essay, published in the catalogue for the exhibition La invención de la continuidad (Caracas: Galería de Arte Nacional, 1997), the curator Luis Enrique Pérez-Oramas discusses questions associated with the development of twentieth-century [...]

This preface was written by the artist for the catalogue of his own exhibition Eugenio Espinoza: 1985–1988 at the Galería Tito Salas in Caracas (1988). Here the artist writes an analytical review of the ideas that govern the art he has produced in [...]

In this essay the curator Lourdes Blanco provides a detailed review of Eugenio Espinoza’s gouaches at his exhibition, Karakana (Caracas: Museo La Rinconada, 1985). The gouaches share the event with a collection of canvases which Blanco briefly [...]

In this curatorial essay Lourdes Blanco discusses Eugenio Espinoza’s career from 1972 until 1984. Describing “the grid” as the fundamental concept and element in his work, Blanco takes a historical and visual tour beginning with his first one- [...]

On September 30, 1979 Margarita D’Amico used her column—Sí y No—in the Sunday edition of El Nacional to review the creative work of three Venezuelan conceptual artists: Claudio Perna, Rolando Peña, and Eugenio Espinoza. She included Perna’s [...]

In the book 11 tipos. Arte en Venezuela en los años setenta, the researcher Juan Carlos Palenzuela makes an exhaustive study of Venezuelan art in the1970s, a time when conceptual art was unquestionably being produced in that country. The author [...]

Referring to the works in the individual exhibition Paramount Pictures (1989) at the Caracas exhibition space Galería Sotavento, the curator Ruth Auerbach holds a dialogue with the Venezuelan artist Eugenio Espinoza. The artist discusses the [...]

In this interview, the journalist Rubén Wisotzki asks Eugenio Espinoza about Orla, the exhibition presented at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Sofía Imber in Caracas, in 1993. The Venezuelan artist believes that the exhibition was a moment for [...]

Aurora Blyde interviews Eugenio Espinoza during the course of the exhibition CCS-10. Arte venezolano actual (Caracas: Galería de Arte Nacional, 1993). They discuss what they think of as the “core” of Venezuelan visual art; constant elements in [...]