Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Visual artist and researcher Juan Fernando Herrán, and the Italian art historian Luca Zordán, were curators of the exhibition Wiedemann por Colombia: la mirada del artista. In this text, they state their main curatorial objectives and their [...]

In this text, Colombian art critic Enrike Torregroza, who wrote on international art for a variety of periodicals, analyzes the Primer Salón de Arte Femenino [First Salon of Female Art] held at the Museo Nacional of Colombia in 1951. Torregroza [...]

In this article, Vienna-born critic and art historian Walter Engel discusses the Primer Salón de Arte Femenino [First Salon of Female Art] held at the Museo Nacional of Colombia in 1951. Engel addresses the event in terms of its gender-based [...]

In the unsigned introduction to this catalogue, the writer describes the Salón Nacional de Arte Moderno (Museo Nacional de Colombia, in Bogotá, 1949). The Salón is a grouping of recent works by artists who were the leaders of the cultural vanguard [...]

In this text, Beatriz González recounts the history of the Salón Nacional, including the years during which it was not held (starting in 1980) and the reasons why. She also discusses the two retrospectives of the event: the first, which was held at [...]

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, [...]

Clemencia Lucena, Colombian artist and activist in MOIR (Movimiento Obrero Independiente Revolucionario, founded in 1971) assesses the works exhibited at the XXII Salón de Artistas Nacionales (1971) on the basis of the Marxist theory of class [...]