[1] The artist quoted in María Alexandra Cabrera, “Santiago Cárdenas: el ilusionista,” El Tiempo [Bogotá], April 19, 2017.
[2] Cárdenas quoted in Jacqueline Barnitz, Twentieth-century Art of Latin America (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001), 261.
[3] See the relevant dates in the artist’s chronology published in Edward Lucie-Smith, Santiago Cárdenas (Bogotá: Villegas Editores, 2006)
[4] Félix Angel, “The Latin American Presence,” in The Latin American Spirit: Art and Artists in the United States, 1920–1970, exh. cat. (New York: The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1989), 276.
[5] Cárdenas recalls these events in Cabrera, “Santiago Cárdenas: el ilusionista.”
[6] See the 1967 entry in the artist’s chronology published in Smith, Santiago Cárdenas.
[7] Gina McDaniel Tarver, “Intrepid Iconoclasts and Ambitious Institutions: Early Colombian Conceptual Art and Its Antecedents, 1961–1975,” PhD. Diss. (University of Texas, Austin, 2008), 58.
[8] Ibid., 367.
[9] See Cabrera, “Santiago Cárdenas: el ilusionista.”
[10] Raúl Cristancho in Santiago Cárdenas: Obra Grafica, exh. cat. (Bogotá: Banco de la Republica, 1992), np.
[11] Bernice Rose, Santiago Cardenas, Carlos Rojas, exh. cat. (New York: Center for Inter-American Relations, 1973), np.
[12] Cárdenas quoted in Angel, “The Latin American Presence,” 279,
[13] Barnitz, Twentieth-century Art of Latin America, 261.
[14] See the 1977 entry in the artist’s chronology published in Smith, Santiago Cárdenas.