Gragoatá (Jun 2007)
The archive and the present
Abstract
Latin-American modernism is a cultural stream with moments of intensity, lapses, periods of fervish agitation, and dissident rupture. Rebuilding its archive doesn’t mean searching for origins but choosing to identify and analyze those moments overlapped with modernist autonomy. The Baroque effect, the so-called Latin-American neo-Baroque style of the 70s links directly with a preposterous moment of that history.