Dia de Muerte street art, Guanajuato

 

Museo de la Muerte and other skeletal things around Aguascalientes

Altars, Shrines & Reliquaries

In a Zacatecas church

Reliquary holding bits of bones of Hidalgo, Allende & Morelos, leaders of the fight for Independence (Casa del Immortal Hidalgo in Dolores Hidalgo)

Hidalgo's spectacles

Street altar in Queretaro.

Jazzamoart, Zacatecas

Reminder to myself never to be too daunted to exhibit in a big space. Javier Vázquez Estupiñán, who works under the name Jazzamoart, was exhibiting a solo show in this beautiful old Convent building in Zacatecas, el Antiguo Templo de San Agustín.

Marks and Traces

Zacatecas

Museo Jose Guadalupe Posada

"La muerte as democratica, ya que a fin de cuentas, guera, morena, rica o pobre, toda la gente acaba siendo calavera."

Manuel Martin - El trompantli

AUTHOR: Manuel Morín (from Cabañas Cultural Institute, Guadalajara, website)

A part of the celebrations of the Day of the Dead 2016, Cabañas Cultural Institute invites to the exhibition Tzompantli Makuili where the sculptor Manuel Morin is inspired by the multiple expression of death through the calavera, or as he explains: “The calavera is different from the skull in its cultural appropriation. We take the skull with us; we expose our calavera beyond life. While the calaca is the translation of calavera to sign”.

In this project, Manuel Marín retakes the tradition of ancient Mexicans giving to them a renewed boost in their free reproductions which are based on the human configuration and take those who observe them to reflect on life and death.

He presents two pieces, one, a wall with 1000 paper calavera sculptures and another one, an Altar formed by 70 wooden strips, each one with four MDF calaveras, lacquered and drawn with graphite.