Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

The anthropologist and art critic Natalia Gutiérrez examines some representative works by Colombian artists in order to analyze Colombian art of the 1990s. She believes this method helps her to avoid using general theories that “pigeonhole” them [...]

The art and photography critic Fernando Castro reviews the works Aliento [Breath], Narcisos [Narcissi], and Lacrimarios [Tear Containers] by Oscar Muñoz that were exhibited at the Sicardi Gallery in Houston in March 2002 as part of Fotofest. [...]

Published in the Bogotá-based newspaper La Prensa on October 31, 1996, the article entitled “Generación Instalada” by journalist María Margarita García is a critical and descriptive review of the fifth edition of the Bienal de Bogotá. The [...]

In a text entitled “El Arte y la violencia en la era del narcotráfico” that deals with art and violence, Álvaro Medina describes and analyzes the radical transformation that the armed conflict in Colombia underwent in the early eighties. In it [...]

Erika Martínez Cuervo describes and analyzes El puente [The Bridge], the work by Óscar Muñoz, discussing the relationships that link urban experience, memory, the nature of visual portrayals, and the phenomena of modernization and [...]

Written by Marta Traba and published in the magazine Arte en Colombia, “El VII Salón Atenas” is perhaps the harshest criticism of the Colombian salons held in November. Traba argues that despite belief to the contrary, the Salon Atenas has not [...]

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The text “Al ritmo del Caribe” was written by art critic and curator Miguel González, a crucial figure in the development of art from the city of Cali in the seventies. González writes about a series of events and situations in the Colombian [...]

In this interview, “No hay espacio para la certidumbre” [No Room for Certainty] the critic and art curator José Ignacio Roca asks the Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz to explain his reasons for creating Lugar a dudas [Room for Doubt], an [...]

This essay, written by the art curator María Clara Bernal and published in the catalogue for the exhibition Displaced (2007), explains why it is important to address the subject of displacement as an essential feature of the contemporary world of [...]

In the article “I Bienal de Bogotá ¿Corriente de aire fresco?” [1st Bogotá Biennial: A Breath of Fresh Air?] the historian and art critic Germán Rubiano discusses the exhibition presented at the Museo de Arte Moderno [Museum of Modern Art] in [...]

“I Bienal de Arte de Bogotá” [1st Bogotá Art Biennial], by the Colombian critic and curator Miguel González, is a newspaper article about the event that took place at the Museo de Arte Moderno [Museum of Modern Art] in Bogotá in 1988. Gonzá [...]

“Lugar: A Project for Contemporary Creation / Un proyecto de creación contemporánea” is the handwritten (in Spanish) proposal that was used to create Lugar a dudas [Room for Doubt], an independent space (in the city of Cali) that promotes and [...]

In this article, art historian María Margarita Malagón-Kurka analyzes a series of works by Colombian artists that address the topic of violence. She argues that there are two distinct tendencies that took shape in two different historical moments. [...]

The article “Propuesta para una doble lectura” is a statement of principle as well as a thesis that Marta Traba formulated on the occasion of an exhibition of Modern Colombian art in Paris. In this text, Traba provides a periodization of [...]

The curator and art critic Miguel González (Cali, b. 1950) introduces the work of the photographer Fernell Franco (1942, Versalles, Valle del Cauca–2006, Cali) in the catalogue for the exhibition Ever Astudillo dibujos, Fernell Franco fotografías [...]

Colombian curator and art critic Miguel González provides an overview of Óscar Muñoz’s work from his first solo exhibition in Colombia through 1987, focusing on questions like the dichotomy between appearance and reality, light, and the [...]

In the book Volverse aire [Become Air], published in 2003, María Iovino describes and analyzes Óscar Muñoz’s work from his early stages as a draftsman to the works produced the year the book was published in Bogotá. Special attention is paid to [...]

Entitled “En la historia” [In History], this introduction to Después del límite [Beyond the Limit] summarizes critic and researcher María Iovino’s thinking on drawing and painting. Iovino asserts that Paul Cézanne was one of the artists [...]

Astrid Muñoz published this article on the occasion of the exhibition of Colombian artists María de la Paz Jaramillo and Óscar Muñoz at the Centro de Arte Actual in Pereira, Colombia. By 1975, young artists Jaramillo and Muñoz had received a [...]

The “Semanariocultural” [Cultural Weekly], a supplement of the newspaper El Pueblo de Cali, (1975–86) published the article, “No salgas de tu barrio. Entrevista a Ever Astudillo” [Do Not Leave Your Neighborhood: An Interview with Ever [...]

This manuscript was created by Óscar Muñoz, with photographs of his major works for his presentation at the Tate Gallery in London, as part of the Global Photography Now: Latin America conference held on November 10, 2006. Muñoz provides an [...]

In this text, international art critic Mari Carmen Ramírez points to Colombian artist Óscar Muñoz’s longstanding interest in drawing and its limits. She first remarks on the relative realism of Muñoz’s work insofar as it consists of copies or [...]

This interview in manuscript form between critic and researcher María Iovino and Miguel Ángel Rojas presents various facets of the artist’s life and work, and is part of the curatorial and research project entitled Contratextos (2007–8). It is [...]

This interview covers Óscar Muñoz’s career from the early days in Cali in the late sixties until 2004, the time period that is the focus of interest. Muñoz connects his art with his formation as an artist and with what happened in his native [...]

El Puente, dos videoproyecciones [The Bridge, Two Video Projections] is the leaflet that was used in connection with the urban action event performed by Óscar Muñoz in November 2004. The document presents the photographic record of the event, some [...]

The text, “¿Arte joven?” [Young Art?] by art critic Eduardo Serrano Rueda introduces the exhibition Nombres nuevos en el arte de Colombia [New Names in Colombian Art] held at the Museo de Arte Moderno [Museum of Modern Art] in Bogotá in March [...]

This interview of Colombian artist Óscar Muñoz was presented by Colombian arts journalist Diego Garzón in his book, Otras voces otro arte, diez conversaciones con artistas colombianos [Other Voices, Other Art, Ten Conversations with Colombian [...]

In this article on Óscar Muñoz’s work, the art critic Mónica Amor emphasizes the predominant role played by chance in his two series: Cortinas de baño [Shower Curtains] and Narcisos [Narcissi], as well as the secondary role played by the artist [...]