Mexican graphics at Luz y Oficios

By Maritza Mariana Hernández

An arts exhibit with works by Mexican artist Enrique Espinosa Pinales is opened to the public until the late August at the Barreto Room of the Provincial Center of Visual Arts and Design in Old Havana.

Twenty-five small format pieces offer a view of this master of engraving incursion in color printmaking, the use of digital procedures and of greater tradition techniques, with the strong influence of his country’s popular culture in his compositions.

As it is emphasized in a note related to the exhibit by Professor Hector Islas Azaïs, from the Philosophical Researches Institute at the Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM), Espinosa Pinales bases his work on nature’s abundant geometries and reiterations to develop his themes, even in the most abstract character works.

This exhibit, already presented last January under the tittle Graphic Convergences at the ITSON Héctor Martínez Arteche arts gallery in his native Obregón, Sonora State, Espinosa Pinales invited ten of his colleagues who are participating with a total of thirty works, exhibiting not only great skill but also more conservative techniques like etching, aquatint, dry point, burin and printmaking.

The guest artists to this exhibit are Jesús Osuna, Ana Bertha Walldez, Ramón Mora, Gladis Félix, Perso Arana, Evangelina Ley and Alfonso Alamea, just to mention some of them.

In a certain way, this exhibit offers the public some updating about the development of Mexican graphics, an artistic expression very rooted in that brother country.

Enrique Espinosa Pinales was Professor of art history and engraving at the Art Visuals Faculty of the Sonora Technological Institute, ITSON. He has exhibited almost ten individual samples in Mexico and abroad.

Source: Cubarte