Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

The document includes an image that is part of Marcelo Pombo's installation in the collective exhibition La Conquista (Buenos Aires, Centro Cultural Recoleta, March 1992). Organized for the Fifth Centennial of the Discovery of America, it includes a [...]

The question asked by French art critic Pierre Restany in this article is this: how is the political and general cultural context of the 1990s, characterized by the double presidential mandate of Carlos Saúl Menem, related to artistic productions? [...]

This article is critical of the nature of contemporary art in Buenos Aires, referring specifically to the formal aspect of artworks, the roots of creative inspiration such as social or political issues, and the scope in terms of reception, among [...]

Tadeu Chiarelli sees “the quote” as one of the defining features of contemporary art, taken from visual systems and inspired by a vast array of images and preexisting artistic procedures. He scours his sources, noting the role played by [...]

The article reviews the exhibition by artists Jorge Gumier-Maier, Benito Laren, Omar Schiliro, and Alfredo Londaibere in the Espacio Giesso, which took place in August 1992. Besides briefly describing the works of each of the artists, it makes a [...]

In this text—the foreword to the exhibition catalog El Tao del Arte exhibition (Buenos Aires: Centro Cultural Recoleta, May 13–June 8, 1997)—, Jorge Gumier-Maier narrates how the conditions of the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, “a place [...]

This article reviews the exhibition La Conquista (Buenos Aires, Centro Cultural Recoleta, March 1992). It argues that “the response of the forty participating artists are varied. There is no unifying artistic trend.” It gives a detailed [...]

This article reviews a number of exhibitions, including Alfredo Londaibere’s show at the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas. The reviewer describes Londaibere’s work as “a nod to a variety of styles used in romantic landscape painting that includes [...]