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A natureza reposta em arte
1980In this essay about Frans Krajcberg—the Polish-born artist who lives in Brazil—the critic Roberto Pontual notes that an essential element in the artist’s work is the connection he makes between nature and art. Pontual, who wrote this essay on [...]ICAA Record ID: 1111359 -
Art in Latin America : permanencia de lo pintoresco
1994Aracy Amaral discusses the different approaches taken by curators of exhibitions of Latin American art in Europe and North America. She analyzes the various reviews published in the British press on the occasion of the Art in Latin America exhibition [...]ICAA Record ID: 807837 -
Claudio Perna y el arte del pensamiento
1996In this essay the curator Zuleiva Vivas writes about Claudio Perna. She mentions the difficulties involved in studying a body of (conceptual) work that is as vast and as varied as Perna’s. She lists the media this artist used and the series of [...]ICAA Record ID: 1163950 -
Curatorial statement
1993In this essay, artist and cultural critic Amalia Mesa-Bains situates spirituality as part of an everyday struggle against domination by Latinos, a set of popular practices that offer critical, alternative histories and an important site of resistance [...]ICAA Record ID: 820865 -
Entrevista com Frans Krajcberg
1968Interviewed by Vera Pedrosa [Martins de Almeida], sculptor Frans Krajcberg discusses the changes that have occurred in his work since his arrival in Brazil (1947), where he settled. He states he went through a “concrete” phase in the 1950s until [...]ICAA Record ID: 1111084 -
Frans Krajcberg
1992The exhibition of work by Frans Krajcberg at the MAM-RJ (Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro) in 1992 had the desired effect due to the RIO 92 conference (Conferência das Nações Unidas sobre Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento). [...]ICAA Record ID: 1111379 -
La decisión de un artista
1986With this text, Mateo Manaure announced his decision to leave the city and build a studio near his hometown of Uracoa in the state of Monagas. He says that he wants to spend more time painting and to make work with a more indigenous spirit pursuant [...]ICAA Record ID: 1156475 -
Mitopoemas Yãnomam
1978This is a research project published by Claudia Andújar as well as a large-format art book with a trilingual text (Portuguese, Italian, and English). The book is illustrated with drawings made with felt tip pens by Koromani Waika, Mamokè Rorowè, [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110746 -
O mundo dos MEHINÁKU e suas representações visuais
1988This publication by anthropologist Maria Heloisa Fénelon Costa encompasses the following sections: Introduction; I. Drawing; II. The World’s Beings; III. Supernatural; IV. Animals- Iconography. The Mehináku Classification of the World and [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110747 -
Proceso a la imagen III : fluvio subtunal : Instituto Di Tella - ALPI. Santa Fe, 1969
1970The Argentinean conceptual artist Lea Lublin describes her work Fluvio Subtunal [Sub-Tunnel Flow] (1969), created from a concept stemming from the opposition between nature and technology. The work consists of a walkthrough through nine zones of [...]ICAA Record ID: 766873 -
Un incesante viajero que al final descubre el enigma
1992In connection with the exhibition Antología del desarraigo (1992), the curator Katherine Chacón writes about the career of the Venezuelan mixed-media artist, Ángel Vivas Arias. The writer highlights the duality of mysticism and nature evident [...]ICAA Record ID: 1169366