Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Under the signature of a hypothetical and ephemeral Comité Coordinador de la Imaginación Revolucionaria [Coordinating Committee of the Revolutionary Imagination], Roberto Jacoby writes this declaration in which he synthesizes the route of the avant [...]

In this text, the artist questions the possibility of the avant-garde existing within the artistic institution; thus calling attention to the expansion of aesthetic matters into all aspects of social life. Jacoby’s words suggest one of the [...]

Stemming from the idea (very advanced at that time) that the media invents events, those who are writing this decide to inform—by way of social news snippets, altered photos, and apocryphal testimonies—about a happening that never took [...]

Roberto Jacoby, the artist and art critic, discusses the stage version of León Ferrari’s Palabras Ajenas [Other People’s Words] in his review of a performance, and mentions the role of the audience. Jacoby discusses the declining aesthetic [...]

Roberto Jacoby — the conceptual artist, editor, and critic — analyzes León Ferrari’s work in terms of its political content and visual features, highlighting a number of aspects such as the relationship between the heretical and the erotic. He [...]