Latin American Avant Garde Collection

A black-and-white, collage-style zine page in Portuguese, designed with chaotic and playful visual elements. At the top, there's a large "HERE" in bold block letters, surrounded by hand-drawn text and abstract shapes, including graffiti-style fonts, spirals, stars, and a monkey holding a sign that says “Poesia Animada Tá Aqui!” (“Animated poetry is here!”). The text mixes poetry and commentary, referencing Brazilian artists and intellectuals like Augusto de Campos and Glauber Rocha. In the center, there's a speech bubble saying "Olhe nos meus olhos e diga que não me quer" (“Look into my eyes and say you don’t want me”).

About

The Latin American Avant-Garde collection is comprised of 45 art works spanning from 1974 in Uruguay to 1981 in Brazil.    

By 1980, after coup d'états in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and Chile, nearly two-thirds of the population in Latin America was under military rule.
In order from most to least frequent, the languages found in the collection are Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, and Italian
 
The countries represented include Argentina Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, and Uruguay.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[1] Rouquié pg. 2