Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

The researcher Irma Arestizábal comments on the placement of Argentinean avant-garde art, (always at the margin) in relationship to the hegemonic art centers. She writes based on a selection of works of Argentinean artists that appear in [...]

The text discusses the work method of the Grupo de los Trece [Group of Thirteen] in relation to its constitution. As the coordinator of the group, David Cooper analyzes, on the one hand, the internal problems of the group, “las ansiedades de cada [...]

Jorge Glusberg defines the artist as a modeler of everyday reality, as the “creador de nuevos entornos” [“creator of new environments”], as the “humanizador de la geometría” [“humanizer of geometry”], as “responsible por la [...]

Through different authors, Jorge Glusberg defines the concept of ideology in order to relate it to the reality of Latin American art: “En los países ideológicamente sometidos por las metrópolis y económicamente [...]

The catalogue for Juan Carlos Romero’s Violencia [Violence] exhibition (Buenos Aires: Centro de Arte y Comunicación [Art and Communication Center], April 1973). In his essay in the catalogue, Jorge Glusberg states that Romero has always challenged [...]

This document announces the opening of the Hacia un Perfil del Arte Latinoamericano [Toward a Profile of Latin American Art] (Buenos Aires: CAyC, June 1972). It includes a checklist of the participating artists and their respective works [...]

This document announces both the opening of the Escultura, follaje y ruidos [Sculpture, foliage, and noise] exhibition in Buenos Aires (Plaza Rubén Darío, November 7–30, 1970), but also its key proposal: to generate urgency for [...]

The text informs us about the exhibition El Grupo de los Trece en Arte de Sistemas [The Group of the Thirteen in Systems Art] that took place in Buenos Aires. (Centro de Arte y Comunicación, December, 1972–March, 1973.) In the writing, the “Arte [...]

The little gazette announces the inauguration of the Violencia [Violence] exhibition (Buenos Aires: Centro de Arte y Comunicación, April, 1973) by Juan Carlos Romero. Prompted by this, it states that the difference between Latin American [...]

The text finds the problem of the lack of connection between the “men of reflection (scientists, philosophers, theorists) and “men of action (artists, technicians, planners, operators)” producing, as a result, “thinkers [...]

This is an explanation of the meaning of the exhibition’s title, Arte en Cambio [In Exchange for Art] (Buenos Aires: Centro de Arte y Comunicación [Art and Communication Center], June 1973). According to Glusberg, what the title essentially refers [...]