Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this newspaper article, the journalist Miguel de Almeida reviews Idéias Modernas, the exhibition of work by Guto Lacaz that was presented at the Galeria São Paulo in 1982. The journalist comments on the inventiveness and excellent humor he sees [...]

This is the text of Antonio Berni’s lecture to the gathering on the artistic reality in Latin America, the media, and fashions imposed on art. He also underscores the relationship between art from the countries of the center and art from Latin [...]

Aldo Paparella discusses the role of the artist in the consumer society, based on his essentialist ideas about art. He defines his concept of the true artist as an aware, responsible interpreter, fully independent of the reality that he or she [...]

Aldo Paparella claims that, in a consumer society, the artist is reduced to being a salesman. He defends the idea of “classicity” in his sculptural work. And, finally, Paparella explains his own artistic motivation as being influenced by terms [...]

Aldo Paparella voices his opposition to the consumer society. He outlines his ideas concerning the role of the artist in contemporary society. He also discusses the use of a language of rebuttal girded with logic of steel in the creation of art, [...]

This essay examines the relationship between artists and the consumer society, and claims that the latter seeks to create destructible goods and false needs. Aldo Pellegrini claims that the goal of the consumer world is to annihilate the artist by [...]