Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

The art critic Marta Traba wrote the introductory essay in the catalogue for the exhibition of works by the artist Hernando del Villar that opened at the Galería Belarca April 29, 1975. Traba describes the paintings as festive, decorative, and [...]

Darío Ruiz Gómez introduces the exhibition Darío Jiménez: Obras 1942-1979 [Darío Jiménez: Works 1942-1979] at the Galería Belarca in Bogotá. In this essay Ruiz Gómez states that Colombian art lives off “institutionalized aesthetic truths [...]

The text, ¡Al Fin Pintura! (1976) [Painting, at Last!] was an introduction to the exhibition with the same name at the Galería Belarca in Bogotá, organized by Eduardo Serrano. This art critic emphasizes the acceptance of the drawing and the print [...]

Thisinvitation to an exhibition of recent works by Colombian artist Bernardo Salcedo at the Galería Belarca in Bogota gathers texts by different critics that defend or explain Salcedo’s work, placing it in the context of the art world. These [...]

Un lustro visual: Ensayos sobre arte contemporáneo colombiano [Five Years of Visual Art: Essays on Contemporary Colombian Art] (1976) is a collection of articles published by the art critic Eduardo Serrano in newspapers, magazines, and exhibition [...]

In the article “Los años setentas y el arte en Colombia,” written for the Medellín-based magazine, Re-Vista del Arte y la Arquitectura en América Latina, art critic and curator Eduardo Serrano Rueda takes stock of the Colombian art scene in [...]