Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This text on the Fotoformas series created by Geraldo de Barros describes the inherent process of the “de-naturalization” of images proposed by the artist based on his photographic experiments. The author, Waldemar Cordeiro, states the proposal [...]

In this essay, Pietro Maria Bardi discusses the Fotoformas series by Geraldo de Barros, drawing the reader’s attention to the abstract nature of the photographs, and going as far as to associate them with works by Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, [...]

This manifesto stated that figuration had run its course and exhausted its historic function, and claimed that there was therefore no longer any continuity between past and present. Those who signed the document thus repudiated any type of figurative [...]