Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this article, the architect and visual artist Sérgio Ferro criticizes the state of Brazilian architecture, especially in São Paulo, during the period in the 1960s, known as post-Brasilia. He takes a radical and critical approach by exposing the [...]

In this essay, the architect and visual artist Sérgio Ferro outlines the first part of his theory about the contradiction that exists between an architectural drawing and a jobsite. Approaching the subject from a Marxist perspective, he discusses [...]

Architect Sérgio Ferro affirms in this text that new painting in Brazil may be characterized by re-establishing a connection to the surrounding reality, and the levels of abstraction achieved by concrete art, informal art, and tachisme were [...]

Architect and artist Sérgio Ferro confronts the process of nationalization then underway within the context of Pop Art, which can be seen as a movement of “young painters” in Brazil, while also exposing the contradictions of this stance that, in [...]