Introduction: ‘El Techo de la Ballena and Asfalto-Infierno: the Logic of Inversion in an Attack on Venezuela’s Cultural Establishment.’

‘Expresar, sólo expresar, eso queremos.’ Image: Rayado sobre el techo 3, Colection CINAP, Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas. The emergence of arts/literary group El Techo de la Ballena and their quest to establish an avant-garde in Venezuela during the 1960s, marked a rebellious desire to break out of the “asphyxsiating” cultural milieu that surrounded them […]