Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

The article “¡Que viva Manrique!” [Hooray for Manrique!], written by the editorial team at the Bogotá newspaper El Espectador and published on April 16, 1996, referred to Pedro Manrique Figueroa. Precursor del Collage en Colombia [Pedro [...]

“Un sueño de ti” is the title of the curatorial text written by English critic Tom Morton for the exhibition Diva’s Life (2007) featuring work by Colombian artist Juan Pablo Echeverri. The show was held at Site Gallery in the city of Sheffield [...]

“Cuerpo final: el máximo lienzo” [Final Body: The Ultimate Canvas], an article written by Santiago Echeverry, appeared in the second edition of Clave 019–17, the magazine published by Multimedia Creation Major in the art department at the [...]

In this article, José Ignacio Roca critically reviews Twin Murders, and Other Exercises (2001), the exhibition of works by the Colombian artist François Bucher that was presented in the exhibition hall at the Alliance Française in Bogotá. The [...]

The article “Jaime Ávila,” written by Natalia Gutiérrez, was published in issue number 110 (June 2007) of the Revista Arte en Colombia. It was a critical and historical review of the work of Jaime Ávila Ferrer. Gutiérrez, an anthropologist, [...]

The article “De Obregón a nuestro tiempo: el tiempo del arte contemporáneo del Caribe colombiano”, written by the historian Danny González Cueto, was published in May 2007 in the “Notas de arte desde el Caribe” section in issue number [...]

The article by Álvaro Barrios “La geometría como proceso en Sara Modiano” was published on May 10, 1979 in the Barranquilla newspaper El Heraldo, on the occasion of the solo exhibition of works by the Colombian artist Sara Modiano at the Galer [...]

“Sara Modiano: Orden y Geometría” was written by the Colombian historian José Agustín Blanco Barros and published on May 10, 1979, in the Barranquilla newspaper El Heraldo. The article was written to coincide with the opening (also on May 10) [...]

Rodrigo Orrantia’s essay is about En la punta de la lengua (1997), the work that the Colombian artist Rodrigo Facundo installed at the Bogotá Galería Santa Fe Planetarium for the II Premio Luis Caballero (1997). Orrantia’s analysis of the [...]

“Pedro Manrique Figueroa. Precursor del ‘collage’ en Colombia” [Pedro Manrique Figueroa: Harbinger of Collage in Colombia] (1999) consists of an appendix and three sections, as follows: “The Zero Years,” “The Pink Years,” and “The [...]

The article “La Bienal de Venecia de Bogotá – BVB” [The Venice Biennial in Bogotá - BVB] (2008), written by Franklin Aguirre, was published in the sixth issue of the Chilean magazine Plus. This magazine was printed and published under the [...]

The article “Arte Joven con inflación” [Young Art with Inflation] (1991) was written by Ana María Escallón as a review of the seventh edition of the exhibition Nuevos Nombres [New Names] (1991) and published in the Bogotá newspaper El [...]

“Jaime Tarazona. Subdesarrollado” [Jaime Tarazona: Underdeveloped], written by María Iovino, was published in the catalogue Nuevas Propuestas Arte Colombiano 1999 – 2002 [New Works of Colombian Art 1999 – 2002] as the curatorial essay for [...]

The article “Oswaldo Maciá. La memoria inagotable de las voces”, written by the theoretician Carlos Jiménez Moreno, was published in the one hundred and sixth edition of the trade magazine ArtNexus Arte en Colombia, from March–May 2006. The [...]

The text “El dibujo como experiencia vital” written by Alberto González Rodríguez discusses graphic work by Colombian artist Óscar Jaramillo in relation to the historical context and artistic tendencies operative in his native Medellín and in [...]

“El Salón del capricho” is the title of an article written by critic Carlos Jiménez and published in the Sunday magazine of Bogotá-based newspaper El Espectador on August 23, 1998. The review criticizes the infrastructure and organization of [...]

The text “El color de la vida, el color de la muerte” by critic and writer Darío Ruiz Gómez was published in the flyer put out by the Museo de Arte Moderno of Bogotá on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name featuring work by painter [...]

The article “La ‘tradición’ del arte joven en Bogotá” by Nadia Moreno was published in the July 2009 issue (No. 20) of the Cuban digital magazine Arteamérica. The text, which was written with the support of a research grant given by the [...]

The article “Ejercicio de agrimensura”by Lucas Ospina was published on the website http://esferapublica.org on June 7, 2007 on the occasion of Polaris (2007), an exhibition by Colombian artist Beatriz Eugenia Díaz. The show was held in April and [...]

In “El inestable balance de la realidad,” José Ignacio Roca reviews White Balance (to think is to forget differences) (2002), an exhibition of work by Colombian artist François Bucher held at Location One, an independent venue in New York. The [...]

Ricardo Arcos-Palma’s article “Liliana Angulo, del otro lado del espejo” is a critical reflection on Liliana Angulo’s work. The text was published on April 4, 2007 in Escáner Cultural, a web-based magazine specialized in art from Chile. In [...]

This document is the flyer for the exhibition Fotografiar lo invisible featuring work by Colombian artist Víctor Robledo; the show was held at the gallery of the downtown campus of the Alliance Française in Bogotá from June 13 to July 5, 2001. The [...]

This text entitled “Privado: entrevista con Juan Pablo Echeverri” (2009) is an interview with Colombian artist Juan Pablo Echeverri by Iván Ordóñez. It was published on September 15, 2009 at Privado: entrevistas con artistas, a website [...]

This text by María Iovino was published in Nuevas Propuestas: Arte Colombiano 1999–2002, a catalogue of the exhibitions held at the Alliance Française in Bogotá. It voices the curatorial vision underlying the exhibition Íconos (1999) by [...]

In 2008, Raúl Naranjo wrote “Reflexiones, acciones y artefactos. Obras Raúl Naranjo 1997?2008,” a presentation and brief description of his work in the performance genre from 1997 until 2004. The text contains three parts. In the first, Naranjo [...]

The article “Tácticas de exhibición en el espacio público” (2002) was written by Jaime Iregui for his master’s thesis. It was first published on the website of his project Constelaciones (2002?2004), which is no longer on the internet. The [...]

The text “He aquí, pues, mis citaciones a la audiencia” by Natalia Gutiérrez is the eleventh chapter of ciudad-espejo (2006), a theoretical research project that focuses on artists whose work—mostly in the medium of photography—attempts to [...]

“Entrevista a Raúl Cristancho” is an interview with Colombian artist Raúl Cristancho by anthropologist and curator Natalia Gutiérrez. The interview, which took place on July 25, 2008, was published in the book ciudad-espejo, a research project [...]

This document is the transcription of an interview with Colombian artist Jaime Ávila by Natalia Gutiérrez. The interview, which took place in July 2008, was published as the third document in the appendix entitled entrevistas to the text ciudad- [...]

This text by Colombian curator and critic Miguel González was among the materials included in the catalogue Rosemberg Sandoval reflexionarte X Festival Internacional de Arte de Cali, published in 2001 in conjunction with an event sponsored by the [...]

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 document is the informational brochure for the exhibition Redundancias featuring works by Colombian-Chilean artist Mario Opazo. The show was held at the gallery of the northern campus of the Alliance Française in Bogotá from May 18 through [...]

Entitled “Por devoción al arte,” this article published on April 18, 1994 was written by Olga Marín Arango, editor of La guía, the cultural section of the Bogotá-based newspaper El Espectador. It reviews the Primer Premio del XXXV Salón [...]

The article PerfoArtNet. Encuentro Internacional de Performance [PerfoArtNet: International Performance Meeting], written by Ricardo Arcos-Palma was published in the Vistazos Críticos [Critical Views] section of the online edition of the Colombian [...]

This article appeared in the fortnightly newspaper Última Página [Last Page], published in the city of Barranquilla, four months after the prize at the VIII Salón Regional Zona Norte [Eighth Regional Salon, Northern Zone] was [...]

The article “Monólogo con los objetos” [Monologue with Objects], written by Mario Opazo, was published on the “La guía” [The Guide] page of the “Artista Invitado” [Invited Artist] cultural section of the El Espectador newspaper (June 6 [...]

This is the brochure for Carros de guerra [War Carts], the exhibition of work by Rodrigo Facundo at the Galería Cuarto Nivel, which was organized as part of Fotología 3 (2004), Tercer Festival Internacional de Fotografía de Bogotá [Third [...]

The article entitled “Seropositivo, el contagio con la realidad” [Seropositive: Infected by Reality] was published in the newspaper El Nuevo Siglo [The New Century] on January 20, 1994. It was a review of the exhibition of the Seropositivo (1994 [...]

This article, by the Colombian artist Delfina Bernal, was published in the Bogotá newspaper El Tiempo on November 10, 1963. Bernal wrote this article on the occasion of her first solo show at the Arte Contemporáneo gallery in the city of [...]

This document is an informative flier about the exhibition La fotografía como documento en el arte conceptual de Barranquilla. Inviting the public to attend free of charge, this program references anexhibition to take place on January 16, 1981, in [...]

This document, published on Thursday, May 26, 1998, in the Bogotá newspaper El Tiempo, is a short article lamenting the death (two days earlier) of the artist Álvaro Herazo, at forty-six years of age as a result of a diabetic coma. At the time of [...]

This flyer contains information on the exhibition entitled Lo que le sobra al rico le sirve al pobre by artist Lucas Ospina. The exhibition took place in the gallery of the northern campus of the Alliance Française in Bogotá. The opening was on [...]

This text by curator and art critic Carmen María Jaramillo was published in the catalogue to the exhibition of Colombian artist Gustavo Zalamea entitled La ciudad y la pintura: obra reciente 1992–1994 (Bogotá: Fondo Cultural Cafetero, 1994) held [...]

Olga Marín Arango’s article, “Memorias patrióticas de un voyerista” [Patriotic Memoirs of a Voyeur] was published on November 21, 1997, in the “Cultura/Espectáculos” [Culture and Entertainment] section of the Bogotá newspaper El [...]

Written by Carolina Ponce de León under the title “El salón de la extravagancia,” this document was published in the “Nuestra Época” section of the Bogotá daily newspaper El Espectador, on May 8, 1994. It was written as a criticism of the [...]

This article written by Rodrigo Zuleta was published in the newspaper La prensa, on January 5, 1989. In it, the writer explains how the life experience of the Colombian artist, María Angélica Medina, has included being a mother, daughter, and [...]

Under the title “‘¡Ay, si yo fuera pintor!’: Crítica, texto y traducción”, the artist and critic Lucas Ospina wrote a timely essay. It was published in the second issue of the journal Cuadernos Grises, issued by the Arts Department at the [...]

These documents written by Dioscórides Pérez consist of two texts published in the catalogue Tránsito (2001). Both articles serve as a report on the performance La lección de anatomía (2000), presented by the writer himself, working with the Dé [...]

This document consists of a curatorial text written by Jaime Cerón and the catalogue of images that record the works shown in the group exhibition, Corporales. The exhibition included works by the Colombians María Isabel Rueda, Juan Pablo Echeverri [...]

This news piece, written by Laurian Puerta Ordóñez, was published on July 28, 1997, in the newspaper El Heraldo, in the city of Barranquilla. The article acknowledges the first prize at the VIII Salón Regional de Artistas Zona Norte awarded to [...]