Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

The article entitled “Seropositivo, el contagio con la realidad” [Seropositive: Infected by Reality] was published in the newspaper El Nuevo Siglo [The New Century] on January 20, 1994. It was a review of the exhibition of the Seropositivo (1994 [...]

In this article, the theoretician Marta Traba critiques the 1978 Salón Nacional de Artistas. The Salón has been an annual fixture since 1940, and is considered the most important event on the Colombian visual arts calendar. In her article, Traba [...]

This interview with Ronny Vayda, a sculptor from Antioquia, by artist Félix Ángel provides an overview of Vayda’s life. This text, the only one of its sort on Vadya, discusses the sculptor’s education, the art scene in the region of Medellín [...]

In this essay, which is the introduction to the book Ciudad–Espejo [City–Mirror] (2009), the Colombian critic Natalia Gutiérrez bases her review of Colombian contemporary art on the works presented at the 39 Salón Nacional de Artistas [39th [...]

The curator and cultural representative Jorge Jaramillo Jaramillo—who at the time was the director of the Galería Santa Fe at the Planetarium in Bogota—discusses several matters regarding the first edition of the Premio Luis Caballero [Luis [...]

In this article, Javier Arango Ferrer reviews and criticizes the IX Salón de Artistas Colombianos [Ninth Salon of Colombian Artists] that opened at the Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá on August 7, 1952. Participants in the event included [...]

In this document, the critic and art curator María Iovino discusses the work of Danilo Dueñas, describing the behavior of some of the elements that the Colombian artist employs in his work and how they influence the space in the works and vice [...]

In this article, Miguel González, director of the Museo de Arte Moderno of Cali (La Tertulia) at the time, discusses what he deems the most important features of the XXXIII Salón Nacional de Artistas in Colombia (1990). González starts off by [...]

This document is the program handed out to the public at the performance of María Teresa Hincapié’s Una cosa es una cosa [A Thing Is a Thing] (1990) which received first prize at the XXXIII Salón Nacional de Artistas (1990). In a text that [...]

This text is a report submitted to the Archbishop of Bogotá in 1942. It was prepared by three priests sent to visit the III Salón Nacional de Artistas held at the Biblioteca Nacional in Bogotá and to report on the painting Anunciación [ [...]

This flier by artist Antonio Caro is the invitation to the informal lecture presenting the Proyecto Quinientos [Five Hundred Project] in the context of the XXXI Salón Nacional de Artistas Colombianos. The event took place at the Biblioteca Luis Á [...]

In her column in the newpaper El Tiempo, Carolina Ponce de León presents her view of the XXXI Salón Nacional de Artistas. She addresses specifically the event’s organization and the intention, which she supports, to hold regional versions, which [...]

This is the flier that was handed out to members of the public at the opening of the XXIII Salón Nacional de Artistas Nacionales [XXIII National Artists’ Salon] on November 3, 1972. The other side announces Colombiana, the work presented by [...]

This article expresses the official point of view on the controversy that was sparked by the decision to award no prizes at the XXIII Salón de Artistas Nacionales [XXIII National Artists’ Salon] (1972). The article is written by Germán Rubiano, [...]

This article was written by the art critic and gallery owner Eduardo Serrano for El Tiempo, Colombia’s largest newspaper, in response to the official decision to award no prizes at the XXIII Salón de Artistas Nacionales [XXIII National Artists’ [...]

Miguel Garzón, the journalist with the Bogotá newspaper El Espectador reported on the decision to eliminate prizes and honorable mentions at the XXIII Salón de Artistas Nacionales [XXIII National Artists’ Salon] in 1972. In his article, Garzón [...]

This article discusses the major works shown at the Primer Salón Nacional [First National Salon] of Colombian artists from September through October 1940. The author sharply criticizes the lack of well-thought-out opinions on the event, and [...]