This is a serie or 4 new illustrations called Sick Love. This one is called “Jim y su amor” and it was part of CASA DE EMPEÑO group exhibition at Anonymous Gallery Mexico City last february.
Separación inventada
Im in love with a dying man
Look outside
This 3 are part of the current show “Cadáver Exquisito” by White Spider, in Choapa 44, Mexico City. Songs by Natalia Lafourcade, or Lana del Rey inspired me for the titles. I did these drawings in a very dark moment, and I took it as a big challenge to work with very much patience like I did in my university days. And I loved it.
I was invited by an artist I admire a lot, Jorge Alderete, to be part of a group exhibition held in Vértigo, his gallery in Mexico City, for their 2nd Aniversary.
Jorge Alderete: http://www.jorgealderete.com/
Vértigo: http://vertigogaleria.com/
We where more than 50 artists, from Mexico and other countries, mainly illustrators and designers.
The show was about Death. And the feeling every artist had about it, making a tribute to prehispanic Tzompantlis, walls of skulls of all the sacrificed people as a tribute to the gods. Or at least thats what I did.
My piece was called “And the joker laughs at you ha ha ha”. Its acrylic on wood.
Posted: December 15th, 2011
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No sombrero is an exhibition that gathers several young mexican artists and designers to show the world that the new creative mexican comes with No Sombrero. This means that nowadays we don’t need the super cliché and folkloric image to have a cultural identity as a country.
The exhibition is taking place in Brooklyn, NY. Opening the 29th of November, until the 10th of December 2011.
This exhibition is expected to be the first of many cultural events that take Mexico to other cities of the world, to show an updated view of our young cultural emerging scene.
My piece is about violence and love. Both sides of the reality of living in Mexico, where a war is destroying our country and our people, but at the same time, normal life goes on, and no one seems to notice what´s really happening.
French-spanish urban artist El Tono painted the historic building of La Quiñonera, in Mexico City, representing Anonymous Gallery from NYC, for the group exhibition “Espacio Flexible”. I was honored to help him, together with Héctor Quiñones and Laura Reséndiz. Check out his blog, he has worked all over the world and is very nice and fun to work with!
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El artista urbano franco-español El Tono intervino el histórico edificio de La Quiñonera, en México D.F. como parte de la exposición Espacio Flexible, representado a la Anonymous Gallery de NYC, y tuve el honor de ayudarle a hacerlo. Aqui unas fotos del proceso, A continuación, el blog del artista donde habla sobre el proyecto y nos comparte algunas fotos del proceso.
Posted: July 26th, 2011
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La Quiñonera is a historical and very impressive creative point in Mexico City, that had its boom in the 90´s. Bands like Caifanes or Café Tacuba started to play here, and Carlos Cuarón had his studio in the house. Now it has reopened its doors for exhibitions, workshops, and as a meeting point for artists from different generations.
In parallel of the exhibition “Antes de la resaca… Una fracción de los noventa” (Before the hangover, a fraction of the nineties) at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo MUAC,
La Quiñonera opened on the 9th of July, 2011 “Espacio Flexible”, a group exhibition gathering Anonymous Gallery from NYC, La Curtiduría Espacio Contemporáneo from Oaxaca, and La Quiñonera from Mexico City.
Spanish urban artist
El Tono representing
Anonymous Gallery from NY, did an intervention on the house, and I was lucky enough to help him, together with Héctor Quiñones, co-owner (with his brother Nestor Quiñones) of La Quiñonera. (I have a post about that collaboration!).
In this show I participated with my first marble sculpture, titled “Ti prendo e ti porto via”, inspired by one of my favorite books, Ti prendo e ti porto via from Niccolò Ammaniti.
Anonymous Gallery:
La Curtiduría:
Ti prendo e ti porto via
White Marble
2011
