Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

One of the objectives of this article by the art historian Juan Carlos Palenzuela was to analyze the Venezuelan art world of the 1980s. The writer also established the guidelines applied to organizing the second Bienal de Artes Visuales Christian [...]

Here, Roberto Guevara presents the objectives of the First Camille Pissarro Biennial (Centro Cultural Consolidado, Caracas, 1992). The event was organized to strengthen the ties between Venezuela and France as well as stimulate the development of [...]

Curator Cecilia Fajardo-Hill addresses the work of the artists featured in the ninth Premio Eugenio Mendoza in terms of a number of visual and conceptual issues. In her view, the event attempted to expand and question any possible definition of [...]

In this article on the installation of La Nave de los locos [Ship of Lunatics] (Caracas: Sala Mendoza, 1997) by Venezuelan artist Javier Téllez, curator Zuleiva Vivas bases her analysis of the “game” concept in his work using the ideas of [...]

In this article—published in the catalogue for La nave de los locos, the exhibition of works by Javier Téllez (b. 1969) at the Sala Mendoza in Caracas—the Mexican critic Rubén Gallo discusses each of the four installations involved, which he [...]

In this essay, the curator Katherine Chacón writes about the artist Javier Téllez. She refers to the conceptual lucidity of his work which, in her opinion, stands out among other examples of contemporary Venezuelan art. Chacón reviews the artist [...]

In twelve aphorisms, the Venezuelan artist Javier Téllez lists his thoughts about the qualities and possible states of objects—either autonomous or in groups, virgin or used—and makes a number of suggestions concerning how people should behave [...]

The curator Carmen Hernández reviews the installation La extracción de la piedra de la locura (Caracas, Museo de Bellas Artes, 1996) by the Venezuelan artist Javier Téllez. In the introduction to her review, Hernández discusses the artist’s [...]

In this review, the journalist Ana María Mendoza discusses Licantropía—the work by Javier Téllez—which took the prize at the ninth edition of the Premio Eugenio Mendoza (Caracas, 1998). The journalist describes the exhibition and comments on [...]

Journalist Manuel Lebon interviews artist Javier Téllez about his installation Licantropía on exhibition at the Premio Mendoza in Caracas in 1998. Téllez talks about his childhood and his connection to mental illness due to the fact that his [...]

This document is an interview by Ruth Auerbach with Javier Téllez, which relates to his installation Trobar clus, presented at the Sala RG (Caracas, 1992). The Venezuelan artist explains the meaning of his approach, which consists of broadening the [...]