Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this article, Ernesto Ramallo writes about the Bienal Americana de Arte held in Cordoba, Argentina. He traces the history of the event, from its origins in 1958—as the Primer Salón de Artes Visuales Contemporáneas, organized by [...]

This article reports that Earle Brown, the composer from the United States, and Jesús Rafael Soto, the Venezuelan kinetic artist, attended the 3rd Latin American Art Biennial that was organized by Industrias Kaiser Argentina (IKA) in October 1966, [...]

Jorge López Anaya writes about the rapid emergence of Grupo Sí [Yes Group] in the city of La Plata. He analyzes the use of chromatic saturation as a trait typical of the group’s artists. The critic states that the chromatic geometry represents, [...]

In this document, the art critic Jorge Romero Brest writes about the work of César Paternosto and Alejandro Puente, discussing the concepts of color and image. Romero Brest emphasizes the treatment of the irregular frames that simultaneously suggest [...]

This article is a review of the Premio Torcuato Di Tella 1966 [The Torcuato Di Tella Prize of 1966]; it describes the panorama and points out that on this occasion the Pop artists have rediscovered the attitude of creation; within it the personal is [...]

This introductory essay explains that the works by Alejandro Puente and César Paternosto take a different approach to geometric expression, thus introducing what might be called a ”sensitive geometry” as opposed to the hardness of Concrete art, [...]