The social struggle and the obsession with the death of the Mexican muralist Rafael Cauduro are the axes of ‘Un Cauduro, es un Cauduro (is a Cauduro)’, a retrospective of the painter’s work open this Friday at the Guadalajara Museum of Arts .
The curator of the exhibition, Alesha Mercado Besserer, told EFE that Cauduro, who died in 2022 and is considered one of the most prominent contemporary muralists in the country, was a social fighter with a commitment to justice and issues related to inequality.
“Beyond his aesthetics, beyond his incredible technique, let people know that Rafael Cauduro was a great social fighter, a very different way of thinking, a very out-of-the-box way of assimilating things and, from the cartoon, you see this strong social criticism,” Mercado explained.
Migrants, everyday characters, politicians and women are characters that live in Cauduro’s work, whose culmination was the mural ‘The Seven Major Crimes’, which he placed in the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation in 2009 and where it reflects part of the injustices experienced by the inhabitants of Mexico.
The retrospective is made up of 131 pieces, including drawing, sculpture and painting, many of them conserved by the painter and others from collectors who collaborated with the exhibition, which shows for the first time five pieces in large format, including the ‘Angel of Enunciation ‘.
The exhibition opens with a space that simulates the studio of Cauduro, a self-taught artist, and then shows pieces created in his beginnings as a draftsman and large-format works that reveal the painter’s evolution in technique and materials, as well as in the themes he addressed. , stated Mercado Besserer.
The intention of the retrospective is to pay tribute to Cauduro, but also to let new generations know his work, since he had few exhibitions during his life because he preferred to work in his workshop, Liliana Pérez Cano, director of the Rafael Cauduro Studio House, explained to EFE.
“It was to get young people to know more about his work, because Rafael stopped exhibiting for a long time and in this way he wanted to attract new generations to know about him,” he said.
His works include fabric murals in underground spaces in London, Paris and Mexico City, the fabric mural ‘History in the Cabús’, in the building of the Ministry of Communications and Transportation, and ‘Vivir en el Arte’, in the facade of the Cauduro Building in Mexico City.
The exhibition will remain in Guadalajara until June 2024 and in 2025 it will travel to the Museum of Contemporary Art of Aguascalientes and the city of Colima in a place to be defined.
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2024-04-11 17:10:23