Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Mara Comerlati writes a press article about the modernist painter Mercedes Pardo in El Nacional. The exhibition involves her most recent work (twelve paintings and twenty silkscreens), at the Galería Adler/Castillo in Caracas. The subheading [...]

In this article Mara Comerlati reviews the exhibition of prints by the visual artist Pedro Ángel González (1901–81). The journalist describes the exhibition at the TAGA (Taller de Artistas Gráficos Asociados) as a reunion with González and his [...]

Venezuelan cultural journalist Mara Comerlati conducted this interview with Gego in 1980 soon after she had been awarded the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas in 1979. Comerlati provides biographical information about the artist: her arrival [...]

In this essay Mara Comerlati discusses Colinas, árboles y valles, the exhibition of works by José Antonio Quintero at the Sala Mendoza (Caracas, 1981). In this series of drawings and paintings inspired by his observations of the countryside in the [...]

Journalist Mara Comerlati interviews Omar Carreño for his exhibition at the Museo Boggio in Caracas. The show brings together work from the artist’s figurative period, before his stay in Paris (at the end of the 1940s and beginning of the 1950s) [...]

Venezuelan journalist Mara Comerlati interviews Gego about the exhibition of watercolors that will be held at the Galería de Arte Nacional (GAN) in Caracas in August 1982. She also provides information about the most important moments in Gego’s [...]

In this newspaper article, Mara Comerlati writes about the TAGA (Taller de Artistas Gráficos Asociados, Caracas); she discusses its origins, its reason for being, and its objectives. She also identifies its benefactors and describes how the [...]

This article, by the journalist Mara Comerlati, is about the TAGA (Taller de Artistas Gráficos Asociados, Caracas). It was written after the Ministry of Urban Development announced its plans to build new premises for the TAGA in the vicinity of the [...]

Mara Comerlati reviews Prueba de artista, the exhibition that was presented at the Taller de Artistas Gráficos Asociados (TAGA), the Venezuelan artists’s workshop. The journalist interviews the artist Luisa Palacios, who reports that the [...]

In this newspaper article Mara Comerlati reviews Re-presentaciones: foto-grafías y acupinturas, the exhibition of works by Claudio Perna at the Sala Mendoza (Caracas, 1981). Comerlati discusses the situation of this artist who, after spending many [...]