Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Néstor García-Canclini interprets the Blueprints and Xerox copies series by León Ferrari, bringing to the fore Walter Benjamin’s concept of aura. García-Canclini is pointing out the obsessive and asphyxiating nature of Ferrari’s work and also [...]

Hugo Monzón welcomes León Ferrari to Buenos Aires on his return from exile. Monzón mentions the 1960s political art and Ferrari’s various forms of creative art making, describing his work by means of a concept: “module for repetition [...]

León Ferrari writes a poetic text about his work, formulated on the tradition of surrealist writing stemming from associations. He mentions his linear drawings, wire sculptures, the reproducibility of the multiplied image of an unfinished work in [...]

Néstor García Canclini, the anthropologist, professor, and cultural studies theoretician, interprets León Ferrari’s blue-printed and photocopied works, using the “aura” concept that was proposed by Walter Benjamin. He also underscores the [...]

The critic mentions Ferrari’s return to Argentina and the art milieu of Buenos Aires. He also talks about the works in this exhibition as well as the ones that Ferrari created in São Paulo [...]

Adriana Malvido, the journalist, takes note of León Ferrari’s comments regarding the goals of his work. She also refers to the nexus between meaning and production, and mentions indeed the political situation in Argentina [...]

The (anonymous) critic sets forth the relationship between technique and popularization, both in its materials and in its art market value. He even mentions the process in the series by León Ferrari (Planta, Ciudad, Kamasutra, [Floor Plant, City, [...]

Brazilian critic Ivo Zanini formally analyzes the production of León Ferrari based on an exhibition at the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, highlighting the harmony, discipline, and other values that his works maintain [...]

The critic refers to the defining features of Leon Ferrari’s work, mentioning both its extensive use of signs and its references to the alienation of modern life. The article, which has a distinctly political edge, mentions certain formal aspects [...]