Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Set designer Flávio Império explains that his search for balance ensues between chance and unpredictability. In his view, the “dried meat” banners form part of that process. He recounts how he found those stained pieces of fabric (manufacturing [...]

In this text, architect and set designer Flávio Império asserts that new painting, characterized by direct and shameless objectivity due to a consumerist middle class, has broken with the subjectivities of Informalism and of Tachisme. He argues [...]