Felipe Ehrenberg

On May 15 at 7:30 p.m. in the city of Cuernavaca, Mexican multimedia visual artist and neologist, as well as professor, activist, essayist and editor, Felipe Ehrenberg died at the age of 73 as result of a heart attack. Felipe Eherenberg was a student of Mathias Goeritz and of muralist José Chávez-Morado. He founded the Tepito Arte Acá group and served as cultural attaché to Brazil. A pioneer in the exploration of unorthodox visual media, such as mail art, media art, performance, and installation, as well as precursor of publications by artists and artists' books. In 2015, Ehrenberg presented at the Freijo Gallery and the Machado Arte Espacio in Madrid his unpublished work "Post-Ayotzinapa," a critical gaze centered on the murders of 43 students in the Mexican town of Ayotzinapa. The Musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux in France presents until May 28 an exhibition centered on the Beau Geste Press/Free Action Book editorial founded in 1968 by Felipe Ehrenberg, David Major and Martha Hellion in Devon, England. Curated by Alice Motard, and with Benedeta Monteverde in charge of the museography, with the support of the Cultural Institute of Mexico in France, and the Centro Nacional de las Artes Plásticas, the exhibition features 75 artists' books published by the editorial, representing the work of numerous visual poets, conceptual artists, Neo-Dada artists, and experimental artists, many of them connected to the Fluxus movement. Lidia Camacho, director of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA), announced that the Fernando Gamboa Hall of the Museo de Arte Moderno (MAM) will present on August a posthumous homage to Felipe Ehrenberg in recognition of his artistic trajectory.