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Graphic Reality: Mexican
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iHighpoint Center for Printmaking
2638 Lyndale Ave South
Minneapolis, MN 55408
612-871-1326
www.highpointprintmaking.org
Gallery Hours: Mon - Fri 10 am - 5 pm, Sat Noon – 4 pm
GRAPHIC REALITY: MEXICAN PRINTMAKING TODAY EXHIBITION
September 14 - November 28, 2007
Free Opening Reception: Friday, September 14, 6:30 to 9:00 pm
Minneapolis, MN—Highpoint is pleased to present Graphic Reality: Mexican
Printmaking Today, a traveling exhibition organized by Los Angeles curator
and La Mano Press co-founder Artemio Rodríguez. Graphic Reality features
the work of 11 artists; familiar print forms such as lithographs and screenprints
share space with innovative hybrids of printmaking, street art, skate culture,
and animation. A reception with Artemio Rodríguez will be held on Friday,
September 14th from 6:30 to 9:00 pm. The show closes on November 28th.
The history of printed images in Mexico is many centuries old, dating back to
the print-embellished textiles and ceramics of prehispanic peoples and the religious
book ornaments of their European colonizers. José Guadalupe Posada’s
tremendously popular broadsheet illustrations transformed Mexican visual culture
at the turn of the twentieth century and paved the way for self-supporting printshop
collectives such as the Taller de Gráfica Popular, or Workshop
for Popular Graphic Art (1937). Today, graphic illustrations called monitos are
collected in amusing comic book novellas and sold on countless Mexican
street corners.
The exhibit’s contemporary printmakers continue this tradition with a wide
range of preoccupations and themes. Demián Flores appropriates comic book
imagery, for example, while Darío Ramírez reproduces a car crash
in rich aquatint, an etching technique. Many of the artists are pursuing their
craft outside of well-known printshops and some have even left Mexico to live
in other countries such as the U.S. Though working independently and toward diverse
ends, the artists’ total dedication to hand printmaking strengthens and
unifies the show.
Graphic Reality was originally organized and presented by International
Print Center New York (www.ipcny.org).
It includes work by Marcelo Balzaretti, Mizrain Cárdenas, Oscar Camilo
de las Flores, Demián Flores, Verónica
Gómez, Rogelio Gutiérrez, Darío Ramírez, Joel Rendón,
Artemio Rodríguez, José Hugo Sánchez and Cesar Alberto
Chávez Victoria.
Artist Key
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Marcelo Balzaretti
(born in México City, 1971, lives and works in México
City)
Black sheep insight, 2003
Photogravure and drypoint. Edition: 5 + A.P
Paper size: 30 x 40 inches each
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Mizraim Cárdenas
(born in Morelia, Michoacán, México, 1971,
lives in Morelia, México)
Peces de papel (Paper fishes), 2005
Etching. Edition: 50
Image size: 4 images 3 x 3 inches each
Paper size: 23_ x 10 inches
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Cesar Alberto Chavez Victoria
(born in Puebla, Puebla, 1979, lives and works in Puebla,
México)
Untitled (boy and crocodile), 2006
Woodcut. Edition: AP
Image size: 7 x 8 inches
Paper size: 19 x 19 inches |
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Demián Flores
(born in Juchitan, Oaxaca, 1971, lives and works in Oaxaca,
México)
Untitled (México, playbol!)
Serigraph. Unique
Image size: Various sizes
Paper size: 12 x 9 inches each |
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Oscar Camilo de las Flores
(born in Santa Ana, El Salvador, 1974, lives and works
in Oaxaca, México)
21st Century Calligraphy, 2005
Lithograph. Edition: 30
Image size: 21 x 33 inches
Paper size: 28 x 40 inches |
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Verónica Gómez
(born in México City, 1968, lives in San Luis Postosí,
México)
Serie: Ciudad de la memoria, puertas a ninguna parte (Series: the City of
memory, door to nowhere), 2006
Etching. Edition: 5 AP
Image size: 34_ x 19 inches
Paper size: 45_ x 28 inches |
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Rogelio Gutierrez
(born in San Jose, California, 1981, lives and works in
Long Beach,
California)
Self-portrait, 2005
Color lithograph, silkscreen. Edition: 4
Image size: 15 x 15 inches
Paper size: 15 X 15 inches |
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Artemio Rodríguez
(born in Tacámbaro, Michoacán, 1972, lives
and works in Los Angeles)
Avarice, 2003
Woodcut. Edition: 10
Image size: 24 x 24 inches
Paper size: 35 x 32 inches |
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Darío Ramirez
(born in México City, 1978, lives and works in
México City, México)
Descomposición materica (Series: Material Decomposition), 2004
Etching, aquatint. Edition: 5
Image size: 17 x 11 inches
Paper size: 17 x 11 inches |
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José Hugo Sánchez
(born in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, 1962, lives and
works in Tijuana, México)
Minute Man, 2006
Woodcut on canvas. Unique.
113 x 81 inches |
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Joel Rendón
La Cucaracha, la
cucaracha (The cockroach, the cockroach), 2002
Woodcut
23
x 21 inches |
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