Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This article reviews the exhibition La Conquista (Buenos Aires, Centro Cultural Recoleta, March 1992). It argues that “the response of the forty participating artists are varied. There is no unifying artistic trend.” It gives a detailed [...]

In the context of his stay in Europe, the Argentinean sculptor Aurelio Macchi writes to Libero Badii about his visit to the Musée de l'homme in Paris, underscoring a key aspect of "primitivist" art. He mentions the Argentinean sculptors Luis [...]

Ricardo Dagá writes Libero Badii about the artworks he saw in Paris and the Argentinean artists whom he met there. Dagá mentions a lecture by Luis Centurión talking about "sinister-ism." He also comments on other Argentinean artists in Paris, [...]

Aldo Paparella writes to Libero Badii about the people who have visited him and mentions Argentinean sculptor Alberto Heredia. Paparella sends the normal end-of-year greetings [...]

Aldo Paparella writes to Libero Badii saying that one can communicate deeply from absolute silence. Paparella questions himself about the artist’s role, concluding that he should not only make artwork, but also provide answers about what he is [...]

This is a text in which Pellegrini presents Alberto Heredia’s “Cajas de Camembert” [“Camembert Cheese Boxes”]. He considers them as objects where surprise constitutes a gate to a world rich in meaning. Pellegrini observes that artists of [...]

This essay examines the relationship between artists and the consumer society, and claims that the latter seeks to create destructible goods and false needs. Aldo Pellegrini claims that the goal of the consumer world is to annihilate the artist by [...]