We arrived in Mexico City the evening of August 4, 2019 -- Chilangolandia!
7 PRINTMAKERS submitted from Mexico City.
At the Zocalo
Manuel Guerra learning guitar and hamming it up
in the studio of Alec Dempster,
completely transformed in a canvas by Teresa Irene Barerra
Ernesto Alvaro had an exhibition in the Metro,
the nearby Salto de Agua station
JOSE LUIS CUEVAS MUSEO
Life Drawing
Life Drawing
(with an exhibition called "Cortina de Nopal,"
named after his essay that started "La Ruptura" in Mexican art)
Ernest de Soto (far left) working with Cuevas (far right) --
Betsabeé Romero in the "¡Más Que Musas! La Mujer en el Arte" exposition --
COLLABORATIVE PRINT
AT TALLER 75 GRADOS
Karl Whitaker and Manuel Guerra made a collaborative serigraph at Taller 75 Grados with Maestro Arturo Negrete. Taller 75 Grados produced a 3rd of the prints for the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta in 2015.
ALEC DEMPSTER
It seems like everywhere we went we saw the prints of Alec Dempster, who also participated in Ambos Lados.
Alec was also mentioned as one of the founding "impulsores" (quoted from the book) of La Ceiba Grafica, the lithography complex near Xalapa (where Manuel Guerra made his print for the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta).
Alec Dempster and Teresa Irene Barerra
in their house in Mexico City
Alec Dempster transformed
by a painted canvas by Teresa Irene Barerra
"LA VIHUELA EN EL LLANO"
In Queretaro at La Madriguera taller, they showed us this portfolio by Alec Dempster -- "La Vihuela en el Llano."
"TIERRA HERIDA"
Alec Dempster organized a portfolio "Tierra Herida," with printmakers from about 20 countries, about the adverse impact of mining on the Americas. We saw this exhibition in Mexico City, in the Museo de las Culturas del Mundo, in the back of the National Palace. Go to THIS LINK, to see selected prints from this exhibition.
ZAMER
at the
ESCUELA DE CULTURA POPULAR MARTIRES DEL 68
We met Zamer at the Escuela de Cultura Popular Martires del 68.
We bought this print from Zamer
We had run into the ESCUELA DE CULTURA POPULAR MARTIRES DEL 68 in 2015 --
and later discovered many portfolios made there at the University of New Mexico in 2017
Incredible collaborative print
outside the Escuela de Cultura Popular Martires del 68.
Inside the Escuela de Cultura Popular Martires del 68.
ACADEMIA DE SAN CARLOS
The ex-Academia de San Carlos, founded in 1781, was the only Royal Art Academy in the New World.
Because of the 2017 earthquake,
the entrance to the Academia is now on the side
Karl Whitaker reunites with professor Marco Aulio Prado Montaño
at the Academia de San Carlos --
about 30 years ago they painted together in the studio of Maestro Antonio Salazar
Manuel Guerra in the litho studio at the ex-Academia de San Carlos
CUAUHTEMOC KAMFFER
both participated in Ambos Lados
About 30 years earlier in the Academia de San Carlos,
painting by Taller Documentacion Visual
lead by Maestro Antonio Salazar --
Roberto, Karl Whitaker, and Cuauhtemoc Kamffer
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Aztec dancing in front of the National Cathedral
Protesters marching in the Zocalo
We left Mexico City on August 10, 2019.
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