Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This set of articles debates the role exercised by large exhibitions in the Brazilian visual arts world. The articles include both favorable and negative opinions about such major events. Baravelli raises an alert against the danger of emptying the [...]

In this text, Nelson Aguilar, chief curator of the XXIII São Paulo Biennial (1996), justifies his choice of the theme Universalis: a desmaterialização da arte for the event. He argues that the perseverance of art at the end of the second [...]

Curator Nelson Aguilar asserts that the 22nd São Paulo Biennial (1994) would place emphasis on the question of the support. Since the fifties, he claims, Brazilian artists “increasingly showed reluctance to limit themselves to […] that [...]