Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This catalogue includes the writings of five Venezuelan researchers and critics who studied the works of the exhibiting artists at Confrontación 68 (Ateneo de Caracas, 1968). Juan Calzadilla introduces the architect Domingo Álvarez, and mentions [...]

Ángel Ramos Giugni interviews painter Manuel Mérida for his individual show at the Galería Mendoza. The author dedicates part of the text to a personal reflection on Mérida’s career, education, expressive qualities, and an interest—seen from [...]

The journalist Josué Mora interviews the artist Manuel Mérida after a solo exhibition in Caracas where the artist exhibits his series Manipulables. The text questions the scant attention that critics had afforded his work since his last exhibition [...]

Curator Lourdes Blanco provides an overview of Manuel Mérida’s painting from the formative stage of his career to his last solo exhibition. She reflects on the various tensions evident in his work, including those between the two- and three- [...]

In this article, Elsa Flores reviews the works by the eleven Venezuelan artists who participated in the exhibition Once Tipos (Sala Mendoza, Caracas, 1981): William Stone, Corina Briceño, Rolando Dorrego, Héctor Fuenmayor, Ana María Mazzei, Manuel [...]