Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

The question asked by French art critic Pierre Restany in this article is this: how is the political and general cultural context of the 1990s, characterized by the double presidential mandate of Carlos Saúl Menem, related to artistic productions? [...]

In “Crimen es ornamento” [Crime is Ornamental], the text of the exhibition catalogue of the homonymous show carried out in the Centro Cultural Parque España, Rosario (Argentina), between September 8 and October 2, 1994, Carlos Basualdo links the [...]

Carlos Basualdo links the works gathered in this exhibition, The rational twist [(New York: Apex Art, February, 1996) with the “memory” of Argentinean Concrete art; almost nonexistent, as such, for economically developed countries, since, at the [...]

This is the exhibition catalog of Nadar sobre la superficie [To Swim over the Surface] (Buenos Aires: Espacio Giesso, November 6–11, 1991). The text presenting the show, written by Fabián Lebenglik, besides briefly describing the characteristics [...]

The article describes the characteristics of the works by Fabián Burgos, Jorge Gumier-Maier, and Graciela Hasper presented in Nadar sobre la superficie [To Swim Over the Surface] (Buenos Aires: Espacio Giesso, November 6–23, 1991) and, at the same [...]