Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This text, published in the Medellín newspaper El Colombiano, discusses Saturnino Ramírez’s last solo exhibition before leaving for Europe. Entitled Los 20 dibujos de Saturnino Ramírez (1974), the show held at El Parque gallery in Medellín [...]

The Bogotá newspaper El Espectador published this interview with Saturnino Ramírez on the occasion of the exhibition—which it calls Mujeres anónimas (1973)—at Galería El Callejón, also in Bogotá. After a brief description of the artist’s [...]

This article by artist and critic Leonel Estrada discusses the most recent exhibition of works by Colombian artist Saturnino Ramírez held at Galería Partes in Medellín in September 1977. Ramírez presented drawings, oil paintings, and pastels that [...]

Written by Marta Traba and published in the magazine Arte en Colombia, “El VII Salón Atenas” is perhaps the harshest criticism of the Colombian salons held in November. Traba argues that despite belief to the contrary, the Salon Atenas has not [...]

In this first part of a long article, published in two installments, the artist and curator Félix Ángel charts the rise of the generation of Colombian artists who came to be known as the “Once antioqueños” [Eleven Antioquians] in a critical [...]