Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This was the first time a national publication—the Lima newspaper El Comercio—had published the guidelines for the Festivales de Lima, an event of great importance in Latin America that took place in October and November 1966. The event consisted [...]

This programmatic statement by the Grupo Arte Nuevo was included in the catalogue for their second exhibition, which ran from October to November 1966 at the MALI (Museo de Arte de Lima). Faced with “a world molded by the dramatic evolution of [...]

This short article is about the second solo exhibition of Gloria Gómez Sánchez at the Cultura y Libertad gallery in Lima (May–June 1967). The anonymous author underscores the female content of the material on display: “woman [...]

This newspaper article reports on the Arte Nuevo group exhibition at the improvised gallery El ombligo de Adán [Adam’s Navel], which was at that time housed under the “bourgeois roof” of the MALI (Museo de Arte de Lima). The anonymous [...]

In his review of the exhibition of works by the Arte Nuevo group at MALI (Museo de Arte de Lima) in November 1966, Juan Acha states that the first thing a visitor becomes aware of is “the presence of a spirit of renewal.” But he clarifies that he [...]

In this newspaper article, “Juan Gris” (the pseudonym used by the journalist Mario Belaúnde Guinassi) reviews the first exhibition of works by the members of the Grupo Arte Nuevo. The group organized the exhibition to protest the fact that they [...]

This newspaper article is about the first Festival Americano de Pintura, organized by the IAC (Instituto de Arte Contemporáneo) and the Asociación Cultural Jueves as part of the Festivales de Lima. The article quotes the Argentinean critic and [...]

Journalistic note appeared the day after the first exhibition of the Arte Nuevo group was inaugurated at the Galería El Ombligo de Adán, an art space located in the center of Lima. The editor considers the members of the collective as “ [...]

In this essay, the author—Luis Antonio Meza—states that the prize for the Festival Americano de Pintura was three thousand dollars and that the jury was composed by the Argentinean critic Jorge Romero Brest, the Venezuelan collector Inocente [...]

Kemble narrates the anecdote of an exhibition by Alberto Greco at the Museo Sívori which was based on a tree and was part of a New Artshow. He took advantage of the exhibition to stress problems pertaining to an understanding of abstract art [...]