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Evocacíones : Germán Venegas

Title
Evocacíones : Germán Venegas / [curaduría : Enrique del Valle Pérez, Enrique Villa Ramírez ; diseño editorial : Verónica Guevara, Daniel González ; traducción de textos: Irma Isela Jasso Rivera].
Author
Venegas, Germán
Publication
San Luis Potosí, México : Museo Federico Silva, Escultura Contemporánea, 2020.

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  • Jasso Rivera, Irma Isela
  • González, Daniel
  • Guevara, Verónica
  • Villa Ramírez, Enrique
  • Vale, Enrique del
  • Museo Federico Silva, issuing body, host institution.
Description
122 pages : illustrations, (some color); 29 cm
Summary
The exhibition presents 29 works of expressionist style, carved in wood (a technique learned in his childhood), with representations of animals a great symbolism within pre-Hispanic cultures, such as the snake and the jaguar, and vegetables with the same symbolic meaning. Several representations of the Tlalocan, the Pre-Columbian after-life paradise ruled by Tlaloc that represents happiness. The exhibition includes a monumental sculpture called "No Dos", where the author seeks to reconcile two symbolic imaginaries showing their correspondences: Buddhism and the Mexican Pre-Hispanic world
Uniform Title
Works. Selections
Alternative Title
Works.
Subject
  • Venegas, Germán > Exhibitions
  • Venegas, Germán > Criticism and interpretation
  • Artists > Mexico > 20th century > Biography
  • Sculpture, Mexican > 20th century > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Exhibition catalogs
Note
  • "Escanea el código con tu celular para acceder el micrositio de la exposición. O entra al link: www.mfsarchipiélago.org/venegas" --Page [125].
  • Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Evocaciones" held from November 2020 to April 2021 at the Museo Federico Silva in San Luis Potosí, México.
Language (note)
  • Texts in Spanish and English.
Contents
Creaturas de Germán Venegas en el Federico Silva / Jesús Manuel Carrera López -- Germán Venegas, espíritu material / Armando Herrera Silva -- Sobre las evocaciones / Enrique Villa Ramirez -- Germán Venegas, conciencia y memoria: un artista con identidad / Luis Ignacio Sáinz -- Germán Venegas, escultura y talla en madera / Daniel Garza-Usabiaga -- Evocaciones; Germán Venegas, noviembre 2020 -- abril 2021 -- Sobre el artista / Germán Venegas -- English translation.
OCLC
  • on1255631352
  • 1255631352
  • SCSB-13532211
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