Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this essay, the well-known critic Roberto Guevara discusses the works by the Venezuelan artist Julio Pacheco Rivas exhibited at the Galería Estudio Actual (Caracas, 1978–79). Guevara explains this artist’s lifelong interest in painting [...]

This text by critic Juan Calzadilla is the introduction to the catalogue for Magia de un realismo crítico, an exhibition of work by Jacobo Borges organized by the Galería de Arte Nacional in 1976. Calzadilla asserts that, of all Venezuelan artists [...]

In this prologue to an exhibition held at Estudio Actual in 1972, critic Inocente Palacios analyzes Jacobo Borges’s pictorial work, which he considers socially committed art. He asserts that the decline of the representation of the human figure, [...]