Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this text, art critic Sônia Salzstein analyzes a sculpture in the collection of the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM-SP) produced by José Resende in 1975. On the basis of this sculpture, Salzstein formulates the way that Resende’s work [...]

This text by Sônia Salzstein is an analysis of the changes in the appearance of Brazilian art starting in the 1950s. She believes that the cultural modernization launched in that decade had a utopian dimension, which lost ground to an [...]

In this article, Salzstein discusses how contemporary art takes its place on the international art stage, while analyzing the contradictions implicit in a state of peripheral modernity. She explores the connections between the factors involved in the [...]

Sônia Salzstein argues that the sculpture of Frida Baranek is linked to production from the seventies geared to artistic innovation, production that attempted to go beyond the dilemma between Brazilian roots and submission to international [...]

According to Sônia Salzstein, the author of this review, Carlos Fajardo alternates between working [in the media of] painting and sculpture. The fundamental concerns of the work revolve around the surface and the tension between matter and time. [...]

Sônia Salzstein wrote this essay for the catalogue accompanying the exhibition of work by Carlos Fajardo that was held at Galeria A. S. Studio in São Paulo in 1997. In it, she discusses the persistence of memory in painting (the medium most [...]

Brazilian Sônia Salzstein discusses the contemporary concepts of “sculpture,” using the thinking of the US art historian Rosalind Krauss as a point of departure. Salzstein’s objective is to examine what distinguishes modern sculpture from [...]

Sônia Salzstein focuses on paintings by the Brazilian artists Sérgio Sister, Nuno Ramos, Fábio Miguez, and Paulo Pasta. Her interest in these paintings is the relationship between the medium and the material nature of the work, considered [...]

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In the opinion of the writer, Sônia Salzstein, Leonilson’s artwork allows us to identify conceptual parameters against which we can look at certain examples of contemporary art. She notes that the use of titles and texts (written on the paintings [...]