Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This essay by the critic and curator Roberto Guevara appeared in the catalogue for the exhibition 10 pintores venezolanos de la nueva figuración. In his opinion, figuration has gone down the same cyclical and unstable path as all the other [...]

In this essay, Eugenio Montejo writes about the Venezuelan painter Alirio Palacios, comparing his paintings to the work of Armando Reverón. He mentions their relentless experimenting, the fact that they were both landscape painters (of the coastal [...]

This is the Venezuelan writer Igor Molina’s article about the work of the Venezuelan artist Alirio Palacios who, at the time this article was published, was thirty years old and had already had a considerable amount of experience. Molina, however, [...]

The journalist Lenelina Delgado interviews the artist Alirio Palacios on the occasion of the crisis at the Centro INCE (Instituto Nacional de Cooperación Educativa) de Diseño (Caracas). As the instructor at the print shop at INCE, Palacios [...]

The journalist Pablo Villamizar interviews the painter Alirio Palacios on the occasion of the opening of the latter’s exhibition Xilografías y concretografías. Grabado 1994–1999 at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas. The 1999 exhibition [...]

Writer Eugenio Montejo introduces the graphic work of Alirio Palacios, a master whose work he deems on a level comparable to that of Armando Reverón. In Montejo’s opinion, Palacios was a major figure in Venezuelan art, especially in his treatment [...]

The journalist Edith Guzmán interviews Alirio Palacios about his printmaking and the exhibitions he was involved in at the time. Palacios explains that he has taken up woodcut printing again and has been experimenting with that technique, using what [...]

This essay by the historian Juan Carlos Palenzuela appeared in the catalogue for the Taller Huella exhibition held at the Venezuelan Embassy in Paris in 1995. Palenzuela briefly describes the pieces submitted by participating artists, whose work is [...]

This newspaper article (signed with the initials L. B. S.) is a review of the founding of the TAGA (Taller de Artistas Gráficos Asociados), which is described as being an extension of the 1960s printmaking movement connected to the workshop of Luisa [...]

In this text, curator Josefina Núñez puts forth her vision of the evolution of artist Alirio Palacios’s work in wood engraving, establishing ties between his experiences in the East and in the West. Núñez describes in detail the process by [...]

While in Warsaw, Poland, the journalist Alberto Valero interviewed the Venezuelan artist Alirio Palacios as a student at the Polish Academy of Fine Arts. Palacios recounts his experiences and how his vision of poster design had been enriched, and [...]

Venezuelan artist, curator, and cultural manager Manuel Espinoza presents the exhibition La mano, la seda, el color [Hand, Silk and Color] (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo of Caracas, 1978), which featured prints on silk by nine Venezuelan artists: [...]

This text by an unidentified journalist is a review of an exhibition of wood engravings by Venezuelan artist Alirio Palacios held at the University of New Mexico Art Museum in Albuquerque. Palacios exhibited thirty large-format prints produced using [...]

This is an unsigned article about an exhibition by the Venezuelan artist Alirio Palacios upon his return from China. The journalist provides general information about the printmaking art in China and informs us that Palacios absorbed and grew through [...]

Much of this interview by journalist Olga González with Venezuelan artist Alirio Palacios revolves around Palacios’s training as a graphic artist. He mentions his time at the Escuela Cristóbal Rojas and his trips to Rome, Geneva, Beijing, Warsaw [...]

The journalist Olga González interviewed the printmaker Alirio Palacios upon his return to Venezuela after a stay in Geneva (Switzerland), during which time his focus had been on creating graphic art. González refers to the Swiss critic Arnold [...]

The journalist Yasmín Monsalve interviewed Alirio Palacios in connection with his exhibition of woodcuts held at the Galería Freites (Caracas). The Venezuelan artist comments on how he rediscovered this technique, which he initially learned on a [...]

The United States journalist Julie Kruger interviewed the Venezuelan artist Alirio Palacios in connection with his exhibition of woodcuts at the Galería Polo & Bot (Caracas, 1967). The show presented prints made by the artist during his studies [...]