Arte y disidencia politica : memorias del Taller 4 Rojo

the long version

This book comprises the testimonies of five founers of the workshop Taller 4 Rojo: Carlos Granada (1933-2015), Diego Arango (1942), Umberto Giangrandi (1943), Jorge Mora (1944) and Fabio Rodríguez Amaya (1950). It is a long dialogue held with another collective, the workshop Taller Historia Crítica del Arte (workshop Critical History of Art), setting up a document, which in addition to their voices and controversial memoirs, includes the complex documentary collections that they still preserve. Developed in the context of the vast programme of research on the relations between art and politics in Latin America promoted in the last decade by the Red Conceptualismos del Sur and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, this book is one of the most important contributions to the history of contemporary Latin American art from the Colombian context. This art collective also convened numerous artists, intellectuals, and political actors of the era, in a poetic-political experiment unprecedented in the country, which exceeded amply the graphic production and the design of posters.