Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This text by Eduardo Serrano introduces the work Tres Pizarrones by Santiago Cárdenas, exhibited at the XIV Bienal de São Paulo in September 1977. The catalogue [in which the text was published] provides an overview of the artwork created by Cá [...]

The Colombian curator and art critic Eduardo Serrano introduced the retrospective exhibition Manolo Vellojín. Dos décadas (1987) at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Bogotá. In this exhibition, the writer points out three “sources” of Abstract art [...]

The article “Once antioqueños en el M.A.M.” by Eduardo Serrano Rueda discusses the exhibition of the same name held at the Museo de Arte Moderno of Bogotá in 1975. That show featured eleven artists from the city of Medellín, capital of the [...]

Olga de Amaral: Cuatro tiempos is the title of the retrospective exhibition of works presented by the textile artist at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Bogotá from November 1993 to February 1994. It is also the title of the catalogue essay written by [...]

In this short article, the art critic Eduardo Serrano introduces the work of artists Enrique Grau Araujo and Édgar Negret on the occasion of their eightieth birthdays. Serrano assures us that Grau has enriched the figurative tradition in Colombian [...]

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This article by the Colombian critic and curator Eduardo Serrano is divided into three parts. In the first part, Serrano provides a historical account of the events and artists that, from 1972 through 1982, helped to introduce performance art to [...]

In this essay the critic and curator Eduardo Serrano introduces the exhibition of works by the Colombian artist Álvaro Barrios at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Bogotá in March 1977. Serrano begins his essay with the most conventional of all [...]

The text, ¡Al Fin Pintura! (1976) [Painting, at Last!] was an introduction to the exhibition with the same name at the Galería Belarca in Bogotá, organized by Eduardo Serrano. This art critic emphasizes the acceptance of the drawing and the print [...]

This curatorial essay for the VII Salón Atenas [7th Atenas Salon] is, to some extent an evaluation of the program created by Eduardo Serrano. The curator and art critic claims that an examination of the various editions of the Salon provides an [...]

The critic and curator Eduardo Serrano writes the opening essay in the catalogue for the Iª Bienal de Arte de Bogotá [1st Bogotá Art Biennial]. He evokes the commemoration of the 450th anniversary of the founding of the city of Bogotá to [...]

In the catalogue for the first edition of the Salón Atenas exhibitions, Eduardo Serrano Rueda explains the project’s goal of supporting local emerging artists and promoting their work. After stating the rules that were developed to ensure the open [...]

The controversy stirred up by the decision to organize the VII Salón Atenas around the themes of young, experimental art, and Conceptualism is addressed in the introduction to the catalogue for the exhibition VIII Salón Atenas written by the art [...]

In this text, Colombian art critic Eduardo Serrano—curator of the Museo de Arte Moderno of Bogotá—presents the exhibition Arte y Política held at that institution in 1974. Serrano asserts that politics is more than a recurring theme in the work [...]

This is an introduction to the work of the Colombian artist Álvaro Barrios, written by the Colombian curator and critic Eduardo Serrano. The introduction is followed by an interview in which Serrano investigates highlights of the artist’s work [...]

This text by Eduardo Serrano is the introduction to the book Historia de la fotografía en Colombia (1840-1950). In it, Serrano explains the importance of the publication of this book for the fields of art and history insofar as it recovers the [...]

In this catalogue in booklet format from the exhibition Barranquilla, Cali, Medellín (1974), Eduardo Serrano asserts that the idea of the province has ceased to be relevant to the visual arts. He attributes this partly to the rise of the mass media [...]

This article was written by the art critic and gallery owner Eduardo Serrano for El Tiempo, Colombia’s largest newspaper, in response to the official decision to award no prizes at the XXIII Salón de Artistas Nacionales [XXIII National Artists’ [...]

Un lustro visual: Ensayos sobre arte contemporáneo colombiano [Five Years of Visual Art: Essays on Contemporary Colombian Art] (1976) is a collection of articles published by the art critic Eduardo Serrano in newspapers, magazines, and exhibition [...]

Eduardo Serrano introduces the retrospective exhibition of the work of Ever Astudillo. Serrano considers Astudillo to be among the first Colombian artists to “imbue the art of drawing with a meaning and a presence that positioned it as an [...]

The art critic Eduardo Serrano discusses some of the works of art produced by Antonio Caro from 1970 through 1977, which link the chronological importance of the works to the exhibitions in which they were shown. He describes the rough nature of the [...]

This is Eduardo Serrano’s review of the XXXI Salón Anual de Artistas Colombianos [XXXI Annual Colombian Artists’ Salon], which he describes as one of the most disappointing and depressing versions of this event ever presented. He is unimpressed [...]

Curator Eduardo Serrano comments on the exhibition of fellow Colombian Luis Caballero at the XII São Paulo Biennial (1973). In his view, Caballero’s work is indicative of the “independent direction that has been taken by new art from Colombia [...]

In 1981, Eduardo Serrano, the director of the Museo de Arte Moderno of Bogotá at the time, wrote a profile introducing to the Colombian public the life and work of young artist Miguel Ángel Rojas, which in Serrano’s view are intrinsically bound [...]

In the article “Los años setentas y el arte en Colombia,” written for the Medellín-based magazine, Re-Vista del Arte y la Arquitectura en América Latina, art critic and curator Eduardo Serrano Rueda takes stock of the Colombian art scene in [...]

In this article in the daily newspaper El Tiempo, the critic Eduardo Serrano emphasizes the role of the Segunda Bienal de Arte [Second Art Biennial] (September 1990). This biennial was organized by the Museo de Arte Moderno [Museum of Modern Art] of [...]

The text, “¿Arte joven?” [Young Art?] by art critic Eduardo Serrano Rueda introduces the exhibition Nombres nuevos en el arte de Colombia [New Names in Colombian Art] held at the Museo de Arte Moderno [Museum of Modern Art] in Bogotá in March [...]

With the text, “Cinco dibujantes” [Five Draftsmen], Eduardo Serrano Rueda, Colombian art critic and curator, presented the exhibition 5 dibujantes. Astudillo/Caballero/Guerrero/ Jaramillo/Truss. The show opened in October 1975 at the Museo de [...]