Oaxaca, 1940
He is the most important living Mexican artist. His work has been associated to the movement of rupture that emerged in the 1950s in Mexico, and within it one values the incorporation of what is ¿Mexican¿, through a contemporary ideological perspective and aesthetic. He studied engraving at the Arturo García Bustos engraver¿s studio and at the Taller Libre de Grabado (Free Engraving Workshop) of the Escuela de Diseño y Artesanías (School fro Design and Art Crafts), at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (National Institute of Fine Arts), in Mexico City. He traveled to Europe where he completed his engraving studies and joined Stanley Hayter´s engravers workshop in Paris. In 1960 he returns to Mexico to work on other media such as painting, sculpture, ceramics and tapestry design. He begins a number of trips to New York, Barcelona and Paris, which he alternates with Cuernavaca and Oaxaca, in Mexico.