Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This article by art critic Agnaldo Farias discusses the first solo exhibition of painter Caetano de Almeida at the Thomas Cohn gallery in Rio de Janeiro in 1989. After acknowledging that de Almeida addresses many of the same themes as Nelson Leirner [...]

This text was written by the Brazilian art critic and professor Tadeu Chiarelli about the exhibition Lusco Fusco (1993), by the São Paulo artist Caetano de Almeida, at the Luisa Strina gallery in that city. The writer observes that Caetano de [...]

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 [...]