Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Book from the ABC collection (Arte Brasiliera Contemporânea), edited by FUNARTE  (Fundação Nacional das Artes). The volume is dedicated to Rubens Gerchman, and it presents his work alongside a poem by Armando Freitas Filho, using passages that [...]

This is the script that was used to introduce the films shown at the Cinema de Artista during the sixteenth Bienal de São Paulo in 1981. The critic Ligia Canongia and the visual artist Iole de Freitas wrote what is essentially a synopsis of [...]

Carlos Vergara talks about his visual art, explaining that the material he uses in his work is not necessarily relevant in itself; it is more of an instrument, a vehicle for the direct transmission of reality. The artist from Rio de Janeiro explains [...]

In this interview Daniel Más asks the artist Carlos Vergara about the works he showed at the Petite Galerie in 1969. He discusses the significance of certain materials in his work; cardboard, for example, which he describes as a poor material that, [...]