Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This text signed by “Germán Lleras de Francisco”—the pseudonym that Bernardo Salcedo used in some of the critical texts he published in the newspaper El Tiempo—describes the exhibition of Salcedo’s own work, entitled Bernardo Salcedo, held [...]

This document is the announcement of the Dante Alighieri prize, organized by the Italian Embassy in Colombia. In the painting category, the winner was the Colombian artist Bernardo Salcedo, with a nonpictorial work. This press release describes the [...]

This is an introduction to the work of the Colombian artist Álvaro Barrios, written by the Colombian curator and critic Eduardo Serrano. The introduction is followed by an interview in which Serrano investigates highlights of the artist’s work [...]

This article reports on the jury’s decision in the Dante Alighieri painting competition sponsored by the Italian Embassy in Colombia in1966. It also mentions the origins of the controversy that arose between the Italian Embassy’s representative, [...]