José Guadalupe Posada: A Retrospective

This exhibition of works by José Guadalupe Posada (Aguascalientes, 1852-1913), titled "Posada. Fantasías, Calaveras y vida cotidiana", will be open to the public through January 2015. As hoyesqrte.com puts it, Posada was an exceptional chronicler of the everyday history of his country between the late Nineteenth Century and the early twentieth Century. In his drawings and vignettes, the illustrator, deeply admired by the muralist Diego Rivera, captured the marginality, tragedy, laughter, faith, or death in order to communicate an image of Mexican culture that even today remains present in artists of the most recent generations. In the words show ciurator Agustín Sánchez González, who has researched Posada oin depth for over 15 years, "the intention is to emphasize that the artist's fame and immortality is based on the fact tat hios work engaged all aspects of everyday life; he was the great illustrator of mexicanness, and his work laid the ground for contemporary Mexican art". The exhibition is divided into 11 thematic sections: the artist's early years; his illustrations for children's stories; illustrations for games; fantasy and horror; religious images; tragedies; vulgarity and comedy; everyday life; characters; cellebrations; and, finally, his famous skeletons. Following this trajectory, visitors will be able to see how Posada's work is closely connected with several graphic artists of the Nineteenth Century, especially Goya. The exhibition is complemented by a number of print-making workshops for children, whose skill will be challenged as pieces in a Juego de la Oca (a Mexican borad game similar to snakes and ladders) illustrated by Posada.