Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Carlos Zílio wrote this essay for Atensão, the exhibition of his own works at the Sala Experimental do Museu de Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro in 1976. Zílio discusses specific features of his work, from his conception of the exhibition as a whole [...]

This interview with Carlos Zilio was written in conjunction with the exhibition Carlos Zilio: Arte e política, 1966–1976 held at the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (MAM-Rio) in 1996. The questions put to the artists by a number of [...]

Carlos Zílio endorses the attitude which, in his opinion, should be adopted by artists who wish to express any form of resistance. He protests against the critical reviews issued by those involved in the promotion or exposure of works of art, [...]

In this review, the critic Ronaldo Brito discusses Atensão [Attention, there is tension], the exhibition of works by the visual artist Carlos Zílio. Brito explains that the exhibition space consists of an area in which the works create tensions in [...]

The art critic Wilson Coutinho addresses the direction of Carlos Zílio during the 1980s, which, unlike what he had been previously doing in the early 1970s, involved a so-called “return to painting.” His work departed from the diverse artistic [...]