Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Professor Walter Zanini remarks on the new phase in the production of Mônica Nador. The “decorative element plays a fundamental role” in this work, unlike her earlier monochromatic production. The interest in the forms and motifs of this work [...]

To the critic and curator Ivo Mesquita, the theme of Mônica Nador’s paintings on exhibit at the Galeria Luisa Strina, in São Paulo (1994), includes both a decorative and a spiritual component. Her works comment on “The obsolescence of the [...]

This is Tadeu Chiarelli’s critical text on the paintings created by Mônica Nador, written as the introduction to an exhibition by this Brazilian artist at the Luisa Strina gallery (São Paulo) in 1994. According to Chiarelli, these paintings are [...]

According to Tadeu Chiarelli, contemporary international art has moved away from personal expression and embraced an industrial aesthetic. This is the result of a serial, modular logic that rejects any attempt to stress the physical and chemical [...]

The Brazilian professor and art critic Aracy Amaral introduces Arte Híbrida, the exhibition organized by the MACU in Sao Paulo where she was the director. She highlights the creativity of the participating artists and their search for a Brazilian [...]

In this text, Sérgio Romagnolo expresses the need for a “unique vision” in order to understand Brazilian art. He believes that Brazilian artists should not be seen from a European perspective and maintains that it is still possible to develop [...]