Interviews

This Mexican curator must rethink the future of one of the finest private collections of Latin American art in the world.

In the course of her life, Cecilia de Torres has been in close contact with some important figures of Latin American modern and contemporary art. But this is not the story of the gallerist who has built bridges for Latin American art to become known in the United States and Europe.

Harvard Art Museum’s new Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art would like Latin America to be referred to more often at this university in Cambridge, Ma. , as an example of how art is conceived in the world of today.

The curator of Constructive Spirit. Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s-50s defends the sui generis character of the abstract art that emerged in Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela and the United States in the mid-twentieth century.

Despite the lengthy trajectory of video art in the international context, Spain has been one of the last nations to incorporate audio visual works in its museums.

The name of Brazilian curator Adriano Pedrosa is inseparable from the process of creation of the role that an international curator may play in the 21st century.

The challenge to acquire visibility in order to communicate that which the artist wishes to convey

Carlos Basualdo is writing again, not from the intimacy of a poet, but as the speaker capable of conquering spaces in which the word of the artist resonates without interferences.

In January 2009, the Venezuelan Julieta González accepted the challenge of being assistant curator of Latin American art at Tate Modern, one of the four international museums (the others are MoMA, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin) that host Latin American art in their collections.

The name of Bonnie Clearwater, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, is associated to the vertiginous transformation of the Miami art scene.

Estrellita Brodsky´s name is already indissolubly linked to a broadening of the modern and contemporary art discourse towards a more comprehensive vision of Latin American art.