Mexican Artists

In Cafe del Fondo, Queretaro.

I couldn't find the artist's info but like the patchwork nature and the weathered layering and scratching away of paint and images.

Aguascalientes

At Museo Jose Guadalupe Posada, Aguascalientes

La Muerte esta Viva (Death is alive)

Street photography exhibition in Mexico City presenting both the unconscious and deliberate ways in which humans are preoccupied with death.

Frida Kahlo

At Museo Dolores Olmeda they have a collection of Frida Kahlo's work. Sadly it was away on loan elsewhere! At Casa Azul (the Blue House) where she lived with Diego Rivera, there was a display of some of her clothing, body braces and prosthetics - the nearest we got to seeing any of her work.

And a very colourful ofrenda to Frida & Diego

 Lovely relaxing gardens with odd bits of statuary that look suspiciously like old bits of temples.

 

 And some designer-wear, inspired by Frida Kahlo's clothes.

But most of all I love Frida's footwear!

The Bones Have Memory, Betsabee Romero, Museo Dolres Olmedo, Mexico city

Murals and Milagros

HIstory is told in pictures in Mexico. Huge murals remind viewers of the country's tumultuous past and of what others have fought for and often lost their lives in the quest. This one depicts Hidalgo, one of the leaders of the Independence movement against the Spanish. He and three others were beheaded, their heads carried back to Guanajuato and hang from the corners of the Granary building in the centre of town. Left there for 10 years, they served as a warning to others but apparently had the opposite effect.

Milagros tell personal stories and either give thanks to a particular saint for having been brought through it or ask for deliverance in a current trauma. Handwritten script on the painting always tells the tale. This one relates to a major flood in a mine where many workers were trapped for 5 days and 4 nights, scrambling up to higher tunnels out of the water, whilst families and other townsfolk worried about them and worked together to carry out the rescue.