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Evocacíones : Germán Venegas
Title
Evocacíones : Germán Venegas / curaduría, Enrique Villa Ramírez, Enrique del Valle Pérez ; diseño editorial, Verónica Guevara Barragán ; traducción, Irma Isela Jasso Rivera.
Publication
San Luis Potosí, México : Museo Federico Silva, Escultura Contemporánea, 2020.
Physical Description
122 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 29 cm
Notes
"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.
Texts in Spanish and English.
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.
Format
Books
Language
Spanish; English
Added to Catalog
September 29, 2021
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.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
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Museo Federico Silva, issuing body, host institution.
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