Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

“Los nuevos materiales” is the third chapter in a long book by Galaor Carbonell entitled Negret. Las etapas creativas. The book is one of the most thorough and sound studies of the life and work of Colombian sculptor Édgar Negret. In this [...]

“Édgar Negret. De la máquina al mito” by Venezuelan art historian José María Salvador provides a brief chronological analysis of Édgar Negret’s production from 1957 to 1991. Salvador divides Negret’s work into three major periods. The [...]

This text by historian and critic Walter Engel may be the first essay to specifically focus on Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar’s work in relief, which Engel considers key to the artist’s transition from painting to sculpture. Engel’s provides a [...]

The essay “El arte clásico de Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar” by art critic Casimiro Eiger is one of the first critical texts to address Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar’s work as part of the geometric abstraction movement. Eiger considers Ramírez’ [...]

The book Así hablan los artistas [That’s How Artists Talk] is a compendium of twelve interviews of various twentieth-century Colombian artists. The chapter, “El Sueño del Orden” [The Dream of Order] records a conversation between the [...]

The text “En palabras de Negret”—which consists of fragments of a conversation between Colombian sculptor Édgar Negret and cultural journalist José Hernández—addresses topics crucial to Negret’s life and work. The dialogue deals with the [...]

“Fabricación del silencio” is the title of a text in letter form from Basque artist Jorge Oteiza to Colombian sculptor Édgar Negret. In the forties, Oteiza lived in Popayán (Cauca Valley), the region of Colombia where Negret was born; he was [...]

In 1989, Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar showed his series of works titled Homenaje a los Artífices Precolombinos [Tribute to Pre-Columbian Artisans] at the III Bienal de La Habana [Third Havana Biennial]. The Colombian sculptor wrote an essay for the [...]

In 1984, just a few months after Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar donated his sculpture Custodia Homenaje [Custodia Homage] to the recently restored cathedral in his hometown of Pamplona, he wrote the text now known as “La Catedral y el Arzobispo” [ [...]

In this text, art critic Ana María Escallón discusses three basic phases in the work of Colombian painter Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar: a first experimental stage; a second stage of searching and inner exploration; and a third stage marked by [...]

The text “Negret” by the Argentine art critic based in Colombia, Marta Traba, consists of an analysis of the entire body of work of the sculptor Édgar Negret up to 1964. This is probably one of the first articles on the artist to present all his [...]

In 1975, Colombian writer Fausto Panesso published Los Intocables, a book featuring interviews with six major Colombian artists from the 20th century. The interview with sculptor Édgar Negret addresses the artist’s private life, touching on topics [...]

In 1975, the Colombian art critic Fausto Panesso published the book Los intocables, in which he presented six interviews with some of the most important artists of the twentieth century in Colombia. One of them was the painter and sculptor Eduardo [...]

This text by Colombian art critic Camilo Calderón discusses Colombian artist Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar’s production from the sixties. At that time, Ramírez Villamizar’s work was undergoing a transition from abstract (geometric) painting to [...]

In 1984, the Museo de Arte Moderno of Bogotá (MAM) in conjunction with the Flota Mercante Grancolombiana published a large-format book entitled Ramírez Villamizar with the most complete set of reproductions of work by this Colombian artist found in [...]

“Anatomía de un Método” [Anatomy of a Method], by the artist and writer Samuel Montealegre, is a review of Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar’s sculptural work. This essay was written as an introduction to the exhibition of the artist’s works at [...]