Affinities of the Ruptures When abstractionism and inf ormalism burst into Mexican artistic lif e, man y artists stopped taking muralism as the aesthetic model to follow and tumed to the Tamayo flag. However, of the three so-called greats (Rivera, Siqueiros and Orozco) there was one who still interested many of the young artists of the Rupture generation-José Cemente Orozco. No doubt his paintings were more poetry and less propaganda. After ali, in his depictions of the Mexican Revolution, Orozco produced timeless reflections on war, violence and death, not panegyrics on a slice of the national history. His expressionist strokes…
I’m not quite sure what time If nobody guarantees tomorrow, today becomes immense. -Carlos Monsiváis- I really don't know how to plot the limits between pop art and the naif in the work of Barry Wolfryd. His art grew first in his native Los Angeles, a city that slowly has become almost a part of Mexico since it holds more Mexicans than any other city after our own monstrous capital. This alone was enough to make Wolfryd’s art a hybrid. But he came to live in Mexico, just when our own culture appeared to be invaded and transfigured by…
Tabuena y Wolfryd—A Meeting Point A new meaning for the portrait and the landscape It was in the turbulent sixties and under the unique light of San Miguel de Allende. The Philippine painter Romeo Tabuena (1921-2015) had already been working in the city for twenty years, reinventing his own work, influenced by the Mexican muralist movement. The American Barry Wolfryd (1952) arrived in San Miguel in 1975 almost by accident to shape himself as a painter. Both artists converged at the Instituto Allende, forming part of the intense and vibrant atmosphere created at the time. Later, Tabuena continued consolidating…
Collective Exhibition Galería Nudo 11 de April 2017 Recreo 10B, Centro de San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato Artist: Alejandro Santiago Rogelio Manzo Phil Kelly Casa IAGO / Francisco Toledo Sabino Guisu Gabriel Macotela Demián Flores Lucio Santiago Jorge Pinzon Oscar de las Flores Cristian Pineda
Mitología Ambigua del Placer | Lucio Santiago Desde la edad de cinco años, Lucio Santiago, entro al maravilloso mundo del arte gracias a su padre quien desde esta edad lo llevó a visitar varios museos, aunque para el propio Lucio era incomprensible lo que veía en ellos. Pero fue hasta los catorce años cuando el joven Lucio decidió acompañar a su padre en ferias de arte que se realizaban en América y Europa. Lucio nació en la ciudad de Oaxaca, a los 16 años asistio a su primer taller de fotografía en el Centro Fotográfico Manuel Alvarez Bravo. Ese mismo…
Selma Holo USC Fisher Museum of Art and Dornsife International Museum Institute (IMI) cordially invite you to celebrate the opening of MONTARlaBestia Sunday, March 19, 2017 at 1:00 p.m. We wish to invite you to the inauguration of the project inspired in migration: Exhibition "Montar la Bestia" that will be hosted by the Fisher Museum of Art in Los Angeles, California, on March 19th. For the people that are traveling to the US, don't miss this magnificent event that hosts the work of 55 artists and 40 poets in an incredible miniature train by Gabriel Macotela. Galeria Nudo will…
The Found and the Made Alan Siegel It has been said that the role of the artist is to point out what is beautiful in the world. “Found art” is seeing something extraordinary in the ordinary. Many pieces in the show have required very little actual work on my part. They are the result of lucky finds made while searching through piles of discarded parts of trees. Other pieces are the result of many hours of “making.” A piece I call Dance is the result of two found pieces that met in my studio and hit it off. Perhaps we…
