Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

The text “‘Biogenesis’ (…)” by critic Carolina Ponce de León was featured in the catalogue to the exhibition BIO*. *As in ‘Biography’, ‘Biology’, ‘Biogenesis,’ held at the Colombian Center in New York (1996). In it, Ponce de Le [...]

“Potencias in potencias” is one of the texts that make up the catalogue for the first Experimenta Colombia, Festival Latinoamericano de Artes Electrónicas, held at the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango in Bogotá and the Centro Colombo-Americano of [...]

This essay appeared in the catalogue of Carlos Caicedo, Reportero Gráfico, the exhibition presented at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Bogotá in 1976. In his essay, the writer and journalist Daniel Samper Pizano discusses the work of the [...]

This essay by the critic Jaime Cerón appeared in the catalogue for the exhibition Ruven Afanador presented at Fotomuseo in 2002. Cerón divides his essay into three sections, as follows: i) “Entrada” [Entrance], in which he describes photography [...]

This article is from the brochure for one of the first video installations ever to be exhibited in Colombia: Gilles Charalambos “Tortas de trigo”; it was shown at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Bogotá in 1981. In the article, José Hernán Aguilar [...]

This essay appeared in the catalogue for La sensación del tiempo humano. Homenaje a Giorgione, the exhibition of works by the Colombian artist Luis Hernando Giraldo (b. 1946) that was presented in March 1999 at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Bogotá. [...]

This is an essay by Luis Hernando Giraldo that was published in the catalogue for La sensación del tiempo humano. Homenaje a Giorgione, the exhibition presented in March 1999 at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Bogotá. Giraldo mentions anecdotes and [...]

In a text entitled “El Arte y la violencia en la era del narcotráfico” that deals with art and violence, Álvaro Medina describes and analyzes the radical transformation that the armed conflict in Colombia underwent in the early eighties. In it [...]

“El arte y la violencia revolucionaria” is one of the chapters of Arte y violencia en Colombia desde 1948 by Álvaro Medina. A historian and curator, Medina provides a serious reflection on the relationships between artistic practices and the [...]

Curator and historian Álvaro Medina wrote an essay that addresses the socio-political and aesthetic history of Colombia during the second half of the 20th century. One section of the essay, “El arte y la violencia bipartidista,” deals with the [...]

This essay was written by Jorge Glusberg, the Argentine curator and art critic, as the introduction to the catalogue for the I Bienal Internacional de Video-Arte [First International Biennial of Video Art] that was organized by the Museo de Arte [...]

Ricardo Rodríguez Morales, the economist, writer, and author of many articles and essays on art and literature, analyzes and contextualizes the contents of two of the most important visual arts magazines in Colombia in the 1950s: Plástica and [...]

This article refers to the work of the video artist and TV/film producer, Rodrigo Castaño, shown at the IV Salón Atenas at the Museo de Arte Moderno of Bogotá, in October 1978. Castaño’s work consists of three videos: Autorretrato (1978); [...]

Aproximación a una historia del videoarte en Colombia is one of the links on the website http://bitio.net/vac Historia del Videoarte en Colombia, a research project by video artist and professor Gilles Charalambos Bruyère that provides, free of [...]

The document reviewed here is the introduction to the exhibition Arte y Tecnología, held in the context of the Spanish Industrial Fair, Expotecnia 95. Ana María Lozano, curator of the exhibition, along with the artist and curator John Castles, [...]

In this text published on the occasion of the fifteenth anniversary of the founding of Arte en Colombia, Cuban critic Gerardo Mosquera emphasizes the effort involved in starting a journal specializing in Latin American art. He argues that this is [...]