Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This text by curator Zuleiva Vivas provides a visual overview of and a reflection on the works by Ricardo Alcaide, Nelsón Garrido, María Eugenia Arria, Alberto Asprino, Mauricio Lupini, Alfredo Ramírez, Luisa Richter, Fabiola Sequera, Jesús [...]

In this essay the curator Zuleiva Vivas writes about Claudio Perna. She mentions the difficulties involved in studying a body of (conceptual) work that is as vast and as varied as Perna’s. She lists the media this artist used and the series of [...]

In this essay, which was the main text in the catalogue Arte social. Claudio Perna (Caracas: Galería de Arte Nacional, 2004), Zuleiva Vivas discusses various aspects of Perna’s life and work. She studies the artist’s work from the 1960s to the [...]

This essay by the researcher Zuleiva Vivas appeared in the catalogue for Antonio Lazo. Sentimiento, Convicción, Vivencias, the exhibition of works by the Venezuelan painter. In her essay—“La percepción de lo sensible ausente”—Vivas provides [...]

In the essay “Los nuevos procesos y la representación figurativa” [The New Processes and Figurative Representation], chapter III of the book La desaparición de los límites [The Disappearance of Limits], author Zuleiva Vivas explains the [...]

The essay “Visión panorámica de las nuevas cartografías. Los años setenta: se borran los límites” is the first chapter of the monographic book by Zuleiva Vivas on the life and work of Claudio Perna. In it, the author provides an overview of [...]

In this article on the installation of La Nave de los locos [Ship of Lunatics] (Caracas: Sala Mendoza, 1997) by Venezuelan artist Javier Téllez, curator Zuleiva Vivas bases her analysis of the “game” concept in his work using the ideas of [...]

This essay by the curator Zuleiva Vivas appeared in the catalogue for the exhibition organized by the Taller Huella (Caracas: Galería Sotavento, 1993). Vivas lists the objectives of this group founded in 1980 by five Venezuelan artists, which were [...]

In this essay the curator Zuleiva Vivas reflects on the concepts of “spirit” and “time” mentioned in the title of the exhibition El espíritu de los tiempos (Caracas, 1991), then reviews the career of Claudio Perna, the conceptual artist she [...]