Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This letter was a part of the correspondence maintained by Bernardo Salcedo with Emma Araujo de Vallejo, director of the Museo Nacional de Colombia from 1974 to 1982. From Budapest (Hungary), and dated August 8, 1977, the letter was written during [...]

This text signed by “Germán Lleras de Francisco”—the pseudonym that Bernardo Salcedo used in some of the critical texts he published in the newspaper El Tiempo—describes the exhibition of Salcedo’s own work, entitled Bernardo Salcedo, held [...]

This conversation with the Colombian artist Bernardo Salcedo focuses exclusively on his views on cultural policies, a field in which he carried some weight. The document explains what Salcedo understands by self-management models and describes the [...]

In this essay, Bernardo Salcedo criticizes Fernando Botero’s paintings on the subject of violence in Colombia and other countries, accusing the well-known artist of hypocrisy. Salcedo claims that Botero did not choose to address the subject of [...]

In this text, “Germán Lleras de Francisco,” one of the pseudonyms used here by artist Bernardo Salcedo, discusses an exhibition by Colombian sculptor John Castles, and reflects on abstract sculpture in Colombia and its relationship to design and [...]

In this interview focused on the topic of art criticism, artist Bernardo Salcedo expresses his opinion of Marta Traba’s assertion, made just days before, that there is no significant art criticism in Colombia and furthermore, that this is due to [...]