Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In the first of the two parts of this essay, Elsa Flores provides a critical analysis of the work by Miguel von Dangel featured in the São Paulo Biennial. Flores’s premise is that von Dangel’s work is a model “Latin American response” to the [...]

In the second part of this essay, Elsa Flores concludes her critical analysis of the work of visual artist Miguel von Dangel featured in the São Paulo Biennial. Flores examines the underlying premise that the combination of elements in von Dangel’ [...]

In this essay about the Venezuelan communicator, dramatist, and performance artist Marco Antonio Ettedgui, Elsa Flores discusses his work as a body artist. Flores explains that, in Ettedgui’s events, the act of communicating and educating is just [...]

Elsa Flores is an Argentinean who became an art critic in Venezuela. She wrote this essay about conceptual art and how conceptual language operates in Héctor Fuenmayor’s work. Flores begins by peering through a philosophical and linguistic [...]

This article, written by Elsa Flores for Fotografía anónima en Venezuela—the exhibition organized by Claudio Perna at the GAN (Galería de Arte Nacional) in 1979—is divided into three parts. In the first part, Flores discusses the origins of [...]

In this article, Elsa Flores reviews the works by the eleven Venezuelan artists who participated in the exhibition Once Tipos (Sala Mendoza, Caracas, 1981): William Stone, Corina Briceño, Rolando Dorrego, Héctor Fuenmayor, Ana María Mazzei, Manuel [...]

In this article, Elsa Flores uses her criticism to contrast the different paths, both formal and conceptual, taken by Miguel von Dangel in developing his work. Flores points out that the artist’s work fluctuates between opposing forces: good and [...]

In this article, Elsa Flores comments on the performances of a group of “action-language artists” gathered by the actor, Marco Antonio Ettedgui, who is also a performance artist. Together, they designed and presented their plans at the Galería [...]