Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Visual artist and researcher Juan Fernando Herrán, and the Italian art historian Luca Zordán, were curators of the exhibition Wiedemann por Colombia: la mirada del artista. In this text, they state their main curatorial objectives and their [...]

Entitled “Artistas y obras en la exposición,” this chapter features the works selected for the Historia, Escenas e Intervalos: Fotografía y Video component of Proyecto Pentágono2000, a research project on contemporary art from Colombia [...]

Historias, escenas e intervalos: fotografía y video is the title of a theoretical research project undertaken by Juan Fernando Herrán in the framework of his curatorship of the area of photography and video for Proyecto Pentágono, an investigation [...]

In the introduction to his book, Papaver somniferum (a research and art project based on the name of a type of poppy), Colombian artist Juan Fernando Herrán states the motives that led him to the poppy flower. Although the poppy flower had been a [...]

The subject of this chapter of Papaver somniferum, a study of the poppy undertaken by the contemporary Colombian artist, Juan Fernando Herrán, is the perception of the landscape. Herrán contends that it is anything but neutral, since both cultural [...]