Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This newsletter, which is written in English, announces the opening of a new edition of Hacia un perfil del arte latinoamericano, the exhibition the CAYC presented at the International Exhibition at the Vleeshal in Middelburg, Netherlands, in [...]

This newsletter announces an exhibition of works by Julio Plaza, the Spanish artist who lived in São Paulo. The event took place at the CAYC in July 1975. At the time, Plaza was producing graphic design inspired by a range of visual poetics [...]

This newsletter announces an exhibition of works by Latin American artists. The event, entitled Gráficos del Rio de la Plata, was organized by the CAYC at the Galerie S:T Petri, in Lund, Sweden, in September 1975. This gallery had always had a [...]

This newsletter announces an exhibition of works by Brazilian artists at the CAYC. The opening of this exhibition emphasizes the bond that exists between the two neighboring countries, despite the complications created by their respective dictatorial [...]

This newsletter announces that the exhibition Brasil 74 will be installed at the Club Universitario in La Plata, the capital of the Province of Buenos Aires. The article includes a list of participating artists and a photograph of some of them with [...]

In just a few pages, the Boletim Informativo put out by the Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul (MARGS) in Porto Alegre provides an account of the Exposição Manifesto held at that museum on December 9 and 10, 1976. In conjunction with [...]

These are transcribed excerpts provided by the author, Julio Plaza, to the columnist Maria Silvia. In the document, Plaza declared that his work derived from reflecting on art as a language with an inherent system he defined as a metalanguage. He [...]

This is a manifesto by graphic artist Julio Plaza in which he proposes that art, as relating to time and space, be integrated in an objective way, into an open environment that reverberates with life. He declared that the invention of the “ [...]

This is an interview with Julio Plaza where he revealed his personal views about art, stating that he considered it a cultural product, as he did not believe it had the capability to universally please all audiences and social groups. He commented on [...]

In this essay, the Spanish artist Julio Plaza, who lives in Brazil, discusses the differences between “the work” and the “discourse about the work.” He concentrates on the links between the verbal and the nonverbal, which [...]

Julio Plaza introduces his exhibition Câmara Obscura, fully aware of the risks involved in translating a visual language into words. The result is a prim illustration that spills over into the spectators’ terrain. This work is a [...]