Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this essay, curator María Luz Cárdenas provides a brief chronological overview of the work of Venezuelan artist Pedro Morales, placing Morales’s production in a timeframe that spans from 1988 to the mid-nineties. During that period, the [...]

In this essay written by Sandra Rey, virtual space and “virtual reality” are described from the illusory understanding of the perspective quality in Renaissance painting. The essay alternates discussion between the perception of depth and of the [...]

In the 1980s, during the cultural and commercial phenomenon called the “return to painting,” according to the multimedia artist Mário Ramiro, tech-based art was one of the few kinds of art that was still inspired by a spirit of experimentation [...]

This text is an interview by Simone Osthoff with artist Eduardo Kac on his work Rara Avis exhibitedat the first Bienal do Mercosul in Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul) in 1996. Kac points out the important role that new technologies play in the visual [...]

The graphic artist Julio Plaza claims that all forms of cultural expression are supported by a technique; based on that premise, he briefly outlines the development of the concepts involved in the production of images. He refers in particular to the [...]