Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Here, Miguel von Dangel reviews the ideas of Latin American identity and its utopias, stating that its identity was subconsciously affected by cultural conflicts from elsewhere. The writer also points out deficiencies in Latin American criticism, [...]

In this text, Miguel von Dangel criticizes the stance taken by the Venezuelan painter Oswaldo Vigas regarding the exhibition by Robert  Rauschenberg at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, which Vigas finds contradictory and “chauvinist [...]

In this [1986] article, Miguel von Dangel contemplates contemporary Venezuelan art, as he sees it in the evolution of Western art. He believes that there has been a certain arbitrariness and exhibitionism in contemporary art practices in Venezuela in [...]

Miguel von Dangel begins this article with a story about the death of a horse that was used in [medical] experiments. His wish that the horse be given a compassionate death was stymied, and instead, the horse ended up dying slowly, in painful agony, [...]

In this article Miguel von Dangel describes the three classifications he uses for images and art. Inspired by Umberto Eco’s semiological ideas, the first of these explains the depiction of horror and monstrous ideas in art as a way to reveal “the [...]

This is a selection of notes taken from the diary of the German-born Venezuelan visual artist Miguel von Dangel and published in the catalogue for the exhibition La Batalla de San Romano, in which the artist presents his version of the homonymous [...]