Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

The article “Instalaciones: El espacio tomado” [Installations: The Taken Space] (1991), written by the Colombian artist and critic Luis Fernando Valencia, appeared in 1991 in the 12th issue of Arte. Revista de Arte y Cultura [Art. The Magazine of [...]

This essay was written by Jorge Glusberg, the Argentine curator and art critic, as the introduction to the catalogue for the I Bienal Internacional de Video-Arte [First International Biennial of Video Art] that was organized by the Museo de Arte [...]

Tulio Rabinovich, the current (2009) director of the Fundación Arturo y Rebeca Rabinovich, provides this brief report on the history and importance of the Salón Arturo Rabinovich, an event held annually since 1981 with the support of the Museo de [...]

In this text on the retrospective exhibition of Oscar Jaramillo at the Museo de Arte Moderno of Medellín, poet Elkin Restrepo describes the emergence of a generation of young local artists in the early seventies whose work dealt with the city slums [...]

This article by the Colombian critic and curator Eduardo Serrano is divided into three parts. In the first part, Serrano provides a historical account of the events and artists that, from 1972 through 1982, helped to introduce performance art to [...]

This article documents the Colombian theoretician Carlos Arturo Fernández Uribe’s opinions concerning the importance of the role played by the salon of Arturo Rabinovich in the promotion of contemporary art in the city of Medellín [...]

In this text, Colombian writer Darío Jaramillo Agudelo voices his assessment of works included in an exhibition held at the Museo de Arte Moderno of Medellín in 1983. In his view, these works represent a new form of academicism in Colombia, one [...]

In “Teoría y prácticas no-objetualistas en América Latina” [Non-Objectualist Theory and Practice in Latin America], Juan Acha, the Peruvian art critic who lived in Mexico, explains the basis of his theory concerning [...]