Carrillo Gil Art Museum (MACG) has been showcasing, since August 2, Autorretratos, by Enrique Guzman (1952-1986), exhibition made up of a series of pencil drawings that show the artist’s hands holding some of the objects used by him in the production.
A conference was held, on Thursday, August 25, on the controversy triggered by the creator’s personality and work. Art critic Luis Carlos Emerich was in charge of the conference, and said: “He was capable of transfiguring the iconographies he found among the things he collected, such as old books, ancient magazines, postcards and used them as memories chest of Mexican idiosyncrasy.”
Enrique Guzman was born in Guadalajara. He was a student at the prestigious “La Esmeralda” Painting National School, though he kept a position away from contemporary pictorial language. He’s a member of a rebel young creator’s generation who tried to create their own language back in the 1960s and 1970s. His poetic art is characterized by the representation of absurd and symbolisms given to daily objects and social behaviors, facing spectators. His suicide in 1986 definitively signed his personality and career with a “mystery”. It’s important to point out that, in spite of breaking up with the prevailing language, he also featured innovative applications of some of its elements, positioning him as fundamental link in his country’s art history.
These criteria took Guzman’s work to Carrillo Gil’s halls, as the exhibition is part of the nonpermanent exposition schedule organized by this museum, with the specific purpose of showing particular aspects related to significant figures of Mexican culture.
The exhibition will be open for viewers through October 23, so you can still visit it.
Sources: Yahoo Noticias / http://www.informador.com.mx/
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