Based in New York City, the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) expands scholarship, public engagement, and the international visibility of art from Latin America.

ISLAA will be closed to the public this summer as we prepare to move to our new space in the fall.

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Online Editorial

Sep 18, 2023

English, Spanish

Artist and writer manuel arturo abreu remembers the legacy of late Mexican artist Lourdes Grobet through the artist’s early landscape interventions and her iconic, long-running photographic series documenting the world of lucha libre wrestlers.

manuel arturo abreu recuerda el legado de la fallecida artista mexicana Lourdes Grobet a través de sus primeras intervenciones en el paisaje y la icónica y extensa serie fotográfica en la que documentó el mundo de la lucha libre.

Writer in Residence

Jul 20, 2023

English

Paola Peña Ospina, ISLAA Writer in Residence, explores how the journal Cal was a platform for aesthetics and political debates on Chilean art in the late 1970s.

Riffing on the dual definitions of the Spanish word "rayar"—which means both "to draw" and "to scratch"—curator and writer Angelique Rosales Salgado excavates the archival and networked practice of Mexican artist Mónica Mayer, who has used her work to create lines of communication and to uncover quotidian oppressions.

A partir de las múltiples definiciones de la palabra «rayar» —en el sentido de trazar y de marcar—, Angelique Rosales Salgado excava la práctica archivística y en red de la artista mexicana Mónica Mayer, quien ha utilizado su obra para crear líneas de comunicación y para revelar opresiones cotidianas.

Claudia Grego March analyzes Argentine artists' strategic transformation of European Informalism by focusing on the writings of art critics Rafael Squirru and Jorge Romero Brest.

Claudia Grego March analiza la transformación del informalismo europeo por parte de los artistas argentinos, enfocándose en los escritos de los críticos de arte Rafael Squirru y Jorge Romero Brest.

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Based in New York City, the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) expands scholarship, public engagement, and the international visibility of art from Latin America.

ISLAA will be closed to the public this summer as we prepare to move to our new space in the fall.

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