Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Invitation to Alfredo Londaibere’s exhibition (Buenos Aires: Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, June, 1991 [...]

Invitation to the Exposición de Pintores Modernos [Modern Painters Exhibition], which took place at Amigos del Arte [Friends of Art] (Buenos Aires, June, 1926), and included the following artists: Emilio Pettoruti, Norah Borges, Xul Solar, and [...]

This is the invitation to the exhibition honoring Xul Solar, which took place on October 15, 1966, at the Museo Provincial Emilio A. Caraffa in Córdoba, Argentina, as part of the 3rd Latin American Art Biennial [...]

This is the invitation to the First Experimental Music Workshops, held at the Cine Centro República on October 12, 15, 16, and 19, 1966, as part of the 3rd Latin American Art Biennial in city of Córdoba, Argentina [...]

Lino Enea Spilimbergo wrote a letter to Argentinean artist Xul Solar inviting him to participate in the independent annual exhibition initiative, with a mission to disseminate Argentinean modern art to the Buenos Aires audiences. Spilimbergo held [...]

This letter from the Asociación Estímulo de Bellas Artes (AEBA) in Argentina to the Federación de Estudiantes Plásticos del Uruguay (FEPU) invited the Uruguayan students to attend the opening of the exhibition Arte argentino del pasado y del [...]

Invitation for members of The Society of British Artists to attend the Kenneth Kemble lecture on his artwork. He is introduced as a nonfigurative artist [...]

Jorge Romero Brest writes to Enio Iommi inviting him to participate in the Torcuato Di Tella Institute Prize (1962 edition), enclosing the rules. In addition, he informs him that he will be able to apply for the National Prize (and eventually for the [...]

After being invited to participate in the Torcuato Di Tella National Prize (Buenos Aires), the artist Claudio Girola sends this letter from Chile to Jorge Romero Brest thanking him for his inclusion but declining the invitation for personal reasons [...]

After receiving the invitation to participate in the Torcuato Di Tella Institute Prize (Buenos Aires), Enio Iommi sends this letter to Enrique Oteiza telling him his personal reasons why he will not able to participate. According to his ethical [...]

Alicia Penalba writes that, despite being honored by the invitation, she must decline to participate due to several problems: the art collector who was going to lend works for the exhibiton urgently needs to install them in his garden and the other [...]

In this correspondence, E. de Wilde reports on his arrival in Buenos Aires, having departed from São Paulo (Brazil); it also offers some information regarding the reservation of passages for him and his wife [...]

This is a letter sent by Jorge Romero Brest to E. de Wilde, Director of the Stedelijk Museum [City Museum] of Amsterdam in which he explains that, although he regrets their disagreement, the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella does not disclose beforehand [...]

[This document is] is a letter sent by the Director of the Stedelijk Museum [City Museum] of Amsterdam, Dr. E. de Wilde to Jorge Romero Brest, in relation to the invitation extended to him to act as a jury member for the Premio Internacional Di Tella [...]

This letter, addressed to Alfredo Rodríguez Arias, invites him to participate in Experiencias 1968 [The 1968 Practices]. It states that 60,000 Argentinean pesos would be provided to realize the experience. It likewise stipulates that letters [...]

This letter of invitation to Rosario artist Graciela Carnevale from the French embassy’s office of Culture and Cooperation in Argentina, touched off a chain reaction from various vanguard artists, both from Buenos Aires and Rosario. They were [...]

The Mexican printmaker, Alberto Beltrán, thanks Lorenzo Homar for the invitation to the Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano [San Juan Biennial of Latin American Graphic Art]. However, given the late date on which the news reached him, he [...]

This letter, written in English by Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt, 1912–1994), a Venezuelan artist of German origin, was sent to Stanton L. Catlin, director of the Center for Inter-American Relations Art Gallery, New York, in 1970; it addresses specific [...]

In this letter dated January 7, 1970, Stanton L. Catlin, an American curator and director of the Center for Inter-American Relations Art Gallery, New York, invites a limited number of people to a private viewing of a work, Reticulárea, by Gego; [...]

A general announcement in which Margarita Paksa issues an invitation to take part in the Tribute to Che Guevara, explaining that folders will be published, called La América del Che [The America of Che], containing the work of some forty artists. [...]

Puerto Rican artist Lorenzo Homar thanks Mariano Rodriguez (1912–1990), vice director of the Casa de las Américas, for inviting him to serve as the coordinator for an adjunct group of that organization in Puerto Rico. However, Homar turns down the [...]

This letter written by Gego in English is addressed to Mrs. Sandra Trop Blumberg, executive director of the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York. In it, Gego acknowledges receipt of Blumberg’s letter, dated July 3, and informs her that she [...]

Lorenzo Homar writes to Ricardo Alegría, the director of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña [Puerto Rican Cultural Institute] (ICP), to thank him for suggesting to Zoran Krisnik that he (Homar) should take part in the Ljubljana Biennial [which [...]

This is the Brazilian art critic and curator Walter Zanini’s official invitation to Clemente Padín, asking him to take part in the XVI Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, in 1981. The document created a “diplomatic” incident that was solved [...]

In 1930, Wladimir Raykis (director of Galerie Zak in Paris) sent this letter inviting Uruguayan artists José Cúneo and Bernabé Michelena to exhibit at his exhibition venue which promoted Latin American art between the wars. The dialogue and [...]

This is the invitation to the lecture “Humor para argentinos con humor” [Humor for Argentines with a Sense of Humor] that was presented on October 29, 1966, at the Cine Centro República, as part of the III Bienal Americana de Arte [3rd Latin [...]

Invitation card for the show Arte Destructivo [Destructive Art]. It is relevant to understand the formal mechanisms of the artistic milieu activated by artists in order to promote the exhibition. Thus exaggerating the show’s radical impact facing [...]

Under the title of “Manifiesto Sintetista Actualizado” [Manifesto of Synthetism Today], this document is an invitation to Puerto Rican critics to get acquainted with the space used by the M.S.A. (Manifestación Sintetista Actualizada) [ [...]

The Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes [INBA, National Institute of Fine Arts] invited all painters, regardless of their trend, to take part in the first Salón Anual de Pintura [Annual Painting Salon]. The selection of works and the awarding of [...]

An invitation to the Harte, Pombo, Suárez III exhibition (Buenos Aires: Fundación Banco Patricios, November 4–27, 1992). It names the participating artists: Pablo Suárez, Marcelo Pombo, and Miguel Harte. It also reports the date and time of the [...]

This is the invitation from Industrias Kaiser Argentina (IKA) to the opening of the III Bienal Americana de Arte [3rd Latin American Art Biennial] on October 14, 1966, at the University Campus in Córdoba, Argentina [...]

An invitation to participate in theExposición La América del Che [The America of Che Exhibition], to be held in honor of the fifth anniversary of the death of Ernesto “Che” Guevara. The invitation provides the necessary guidelines for [...]

This document is the invitation to an exhibition of palladiotypes by Edward Weston, which will take place in the galería Aztec Land, at 24 calle de Francisco I. Madero, in the historic center of Mexico City. It includes a phrase from the illustrator [...]

This is the invitation to the opening of the exhibition La Artesanía de la Madera en Territorio Argentino [Wood Handcrafts in Argentina] on October 12, 1966, at the Museo Municipal Genaro Pérez. This event was organized as part of the III Bienal [...]

An invitation from Cuba to Latin American visual artists, asking them to commit to denouncing and repudiating the ideological intrusion of imperialism, the artistic dependence on international centers, and manipulation in a variety of cultural areas [...]

“Mexicanos” is a poster invitation from the students of the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes to an exhibition of true-to-life painting. The poster stresses that the lives of the workers, expressed in such a wholesome, humble way, will breathe new [...]

The invitation to the ceremony introducing the David Alfaro Siqueiros mural Por una seguridad completa y para todos los mexicanos [For a Complete Safety for All Mexicans] is a document of value for its graphic design. It represents the crowning [...]

This flier by artist Antonio Caro is the invitation to the informal lecture presenting the Proyecto Quinientos [Five Hundred Project] in the context of the XXXI Salón Nacional de Artistas Colombianos. The event took place at the Biblioteca Luis Á [...]

While he was in Paris, Rufino Tamayo received a second invitation to take part in the Mexican Biennial that was being organized by the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA).This time, in an attempt to persuade him, Miguel Salas Anzures told him [...]

This essay is about an invitation that was extended to Clemente Padín by the Yellow Springs Institute (USA) to perform at the gathering of Latin American artists held in October of 1989, resulting from information on the event. The artist, in an [...]