Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

The text, “¿Arte joven?” [Young Art?] by art critic Eduardo Serrano Rueda introduces the exhibition Nombres nuevos en el arte de Colombia [New Names in Colombian Art] held at the Museo de Arte Moderno [Museum of Modern Art] in Bogotá in March [...]

The art critic Eduardo Serrano discusses some of the works of art produced by Antonio Caro from 1970 through 1977, which link the chronological importance of the works to the exhibitions in which they were shown. He describes the rough nature of the [...]

Artist and critic Luis Camnitzer analyzes the production of Antonio Caro on the basis of several works Caro produced between 1975 and 1995, specifically: El carrito de Marlboro [The Marlboro Cart], Colombia Cocacola [Coca-Cola],  Todo está muy Caro [...]

In this text, historian and critic Germán Rubiano Caballero provides an overview of Colombian art from the twenties through the eighties. He analyzes each decade on the basis of two key criteria: how the modern is constructed and the tension between [...]

The book Las artes plásticas en la América Latina: del trance a lo transitorio [The Visual Arts in Latin America: From Trance to Transitory], written by the Brazilian art critic Frederico Morais, is essentially divided into two parts: (i) “ [...]

Entitled “En la historia” [In History], this introduction to Después del límite [Beyond the Limit] summarizes critic and researcher María Iovino’s thinking on drawing and painting. Iovino asserts that Paul Cézanne was one of the artists [...]

Included in the art history research paper La experimentación en el arte colombiano del siglo XX, written by María Teresa Guerrero and Ivonne Pini, is a chapter entitled “El arte colombiano busca el concepto”. This section refers to the visual [...]

Written by Marta Traba and published in the magazine Arte en Colombia, “El VII Salón Atenas” is perhaps the harshest criticism of the Colombian salons held in November. Traba argues that despite belief to the contrary, the Salon Atenas has not [...]

Agustín Parra reviews Kilka Wawa, the exhibition presented in 1994 at the Luis Ángel Arango Library in Bogotá, the capital city of Colombia. Kilka Wawa [Child Writing] consisted of a series of graphic aids for teaching the Inga language. This [...]