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Carlos Rojas Cocoma

Abstract: In the history of Colombian archaeology and anthropology, the role of Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff (1912-1994) is well known, and his research on indigenous art is an essential part of it. Better known for his visual analysis of archaeological finds, it was nevertheless in his ethnographic work that he took more intellectual risks. In 1978 he published Beyond the Milky Way: Hallucinatory Imagery of the Tukano Indians, where he formulated a groundbreaking visual anthropological study of the Tukano community and the yagé ritual. The purpose of this article is to interpret how this work formulated a strategy for a historiography of indigenous art from gestures, which is worth studying today as a theory and methodology for research in art history.

Keywords: Reichel-Dolmatoff, historiography of art, anthropology, indigenous art, yagé, artistic gestures.

Laritza Suárez del Villar

Abstract: The article deals with the study of the personal exhibition Samsara: dando sánsara de la India a Cuba. El diario de Leandro Soto a la saga de una diáspora invisible (2012) by one of the artists of the Cuban diaspora, Leandro Soto Ortiz, registered at Casa de las Americas, after more than two decades without exhibiting in Cuba. The exhibition marked the return to the art circuit in Cuba of the emigrated plastic artist of the 1980s. Soto's exhibition proposal highlights a continuity and ideo-aesthetic amplification between his recent ethnographic research of the Caribbean and what was in its beginnings a tendency to discourse on the cultural conformation of the Cuban nation from the artistic lens.

Keywords: exhibition, art, research artist, migration, ethnography, transdisciplinarity.