Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

The anthropologist and art critic Natalia Gutiérrez examines some representative works by Colombian artists in order to analyze Colombian art of the 1990s. She believes this method helps her to avoid using general theories that “pigeonhole” them [...]

Published in the Bogotá-based newspaper La Prensa on October 31, 1996, the article entitled “Generación Instalada” by journalist María Margarita García is a critical and descriptive review of the fifth edition of the Bienal de Bogotá. The [...]

This essay, written by the art curator María Clara Bernal and published in the catalogue for the exhibition Displaced (2007), explains why it is important to address the subject of displacement as an essential feature of the contemporary world of [...]

This text by Colombian artist and curator Miguel Rojas Sotelo is the introduction to the book Proyecto Pentágono, investigaciones sobre arte moderno en Colombia (2000). In it, Rojas Sotelo provides a reflection on curatorial practice and its [...]

The subject of this chapter of Papaver somniferum, a study of the poppy undertaken by the contemporary Colombian artist, Juan Fernando Herrán, is the perception of the landscape. Herrán contends that it is anything but neutral, since both cultural [...]

According to this essay by José Ignacio Roca, starting in the mid-1990s, the work of contemporary Colombian artist Juan Fernando Herrán showed his “methodical interest” in the “relationship between the mechanisms and manifestations of control [...]