Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Mário Schenberg, the author of this text, considers José Roberto Aguilar a pioneer of Brazilian “magic art”—an important movement that, in his view, has been misunderstood. Unlike nouvelle figuration, which spread through Europe after [...]

In this essay, the poet Haroldo de Campos—the pillar of the Concrete poetry movement—writes on the work of the painter José Roberto Aguilar. In a text written in poetic prose, he establishes the comparison between his pictorial perception to [...]