Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In twelve aphorisms, the Venezuelan artist Javier Téllez lists his thoughts about the qualities and possible states of objects—either autonomous or in groups, virgin or used—and makes a number of suggestions concerning how people should behave [...]

Javier Téllez wrote this text in 1996 to accompany his installation La extracción de la piedra de la locura [The Extraction of the Stone of Madness] on exhibit at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas. Téllez, like Theodor W. Adorno before him, [...]

This article by artist Javier Téllez is a response to an earlier article by fellow Venezuelan artist Eugenio Espinoza on the practice of installations as “cubiculismo.” Téllez asserts that it is not surprising that Espinoza’s text contains [...]