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Jorge Reynoso Pohlenz, Alberto González Torres, Angélica García Gómez
INBA
Clothbound
224 Pages
23.5 x 29.5 cm
9.25 x 11.6 "
Spanish edition
ISBN RM:
978-607-7515-42-5
ISBN RMV:
978-84-92480-76-0
English edition
ISBN RM:
978-607-7515-43-2
ISBN RMV:
978-84-92480-77-7
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Intensely active for more than half a century now, Manuel Felguérez (1928) is one of Mexico’s most outstanding artists and a central participant in the renovation of the Latin American cultural scene. His own work has never ceased to renew itself, born of a creativity at once restless, rigorous, and systematic. Within a wide variety of supports and artistic media, two common denominators can be observed: his interest in abstraction as a field open to a broad range of compositional and expressive resources, and the balance he achieves between emotion and reason.
This book, published on the occasion of a large retrospective exhibition in the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, includes three critical essays on the artist’s work: the well-known New York critic Dore Ashton reflects on the influence of Felguérez both in Mexico and abroad; Mexican writer Juan Villoro —who has been close to the artist for many years— examines the style and vision of Felguérez in the form of a personal portrait; and Jorge Reynoso and Alberto González, the curators of the exhibition, focus on an analysis of the artist’s creative systems, on the singular “alchemy” whereby he reconciles compositional rigor with the hazard of countless variants.
The book also contains reproductions of the paintings and sculptures selected for the exhibition, as well as a chronology of the artist’s life and times. An ideal way to approach the rich legacy of Manuel Felguérez from a variety of perspectives.
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