The Mexican artist Demián Flores presents a selection of 40 graphic works on the current violence in his country.
On April 21 at 7 PM, the Instituto Cultural de México (Carrera de San Jerónimo, 46) presents the exhibition America. New Visions from the Old World, by the Mexican artist Demián Flores.
This exhibition, curated by Lluvia Sepúlveda Jiménez, presents a selection of 40 graphic works divided into three series: “The Good Savage,” “Anthropophagy,” and “The Destruction of the Indies.”
In the words of the exhibition curator, Flores’ work proposes “a new narrative to cite the recent history in Mexico, specifically the acts of violence that afflict our society today and that seem to be the product of a new ‘conquest,’ a modern ‘colonization’ carried out by organized crime, whose virulence seizes territories and people with the same ferocity as that of the conquerors of America in the 16th century.”
The artist will be present at the opening of the exhibition. America. New Visions from the Old World will be open until June 5. This initiative received support from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts, through the National System of Creators 2013-2016, and from the Bi Project of Bancomer Foundation.
Demián Flores (Oaxaca, 1982) is a Mexican artist graduated in Visual Arts from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He has held numerous individual and collective exhibitions, both national and international, including at the National Museum Center of Art Reina Sofía (MNCARS), the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC), and the Museum of the Palace of Fine Arts. He is the founder/director of “LaCurtiduría, Visual Arts Center,” a center for artistic production and creation in the city of Oaxaca that offers artistic residencies, the academic program CEACO, and the Current Graphics Workshop. He has received awards and has won various national and international prizes and scholarships such as the National System of Creators (2021), the Pollock-Krasner grant (2006), and the residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts (2002).