The FIC honors Manuel Felguerez the artist from Zacatecas The art of Felguerez Fotographs and other works by the artista are on display during
The FIC honors Manuel Felguerez the artist from Zacatecas
Fotographs and other works by the artista are on display during the Festival
Guanajuato/Gto News
Only a few months from the death of Manuel Felguerez the noted artist from Zacatecas (1928-2020), The Cervantino Festival, the Zacatecano Institute of Culture Ramon Lopez Velarde and the State Institute of Culture of Guanajuato presented an exhibit in his honor in the Casa Diego Rivera Museum.
A complete exhibit
The exhibit includes 62 pieces (5 sculptures, 2 paintings, 55 graphic pieces), and a collection of 20 photographs, that show the artistic and personal trajectory of the precursor of the abstract art in Mexico.
6 months of Felguerez
The exhibit will stay until March of next year at the house where the noted Diego Rivera lived his first years and it presents the most noted aspects of the artist who was born in Valparaiso, Zacatecas, and was part of a generation that broke with the traditional muralism.
His trajectory in the artistic world is noted for his individual presentations in Mexico and abroad, some of the most noted were in cities like Berlin, London, Paris, Madrid, Lisbon, Lima, Venezia, Havana, Bogota, Cordoba and Sao Paulo.
A victim of the virus
Felguerez made more than 50 murals and sculptures in public spaces. The abstract art artist died a victim of Covid 19 lasggt June 8th.
COMMENTS