Zen promotes the rediscovery of the obvious, which is so often lost in its familiarity and simplicity. It sees the miraculous in the common and magic in our everyday surroundings. When we are not rushed, and our minds are unclouded by conceptualizations, a veil will sometimes drop, introducing the viewer to a world unseen since childhood. ~ John Greer
Friday, November 9, 2012
The Night of the Alebrijes
El Hambriento / The Starving
Alebrije (paper mache) by Eduardo Robles Vera. Pepenarte
La Noche de los Alebrijes / The Night of the Alebrijes
(Alebrijes are
brightly colored Mexican folk art sculptures
of fantastical creatures. The first alebrijes, along with use of the term,
originated with Pedro Linares. After dreaming the creatures
while sick in the 1930s, he began to create what he saw in cardboard and paper
mache. His work caught the attention of a gallery owner in Cuernavaca and
later, the artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.
Linares was originally from México City, he was born June 29, 1906 in México
City and never moved out of México City, he died January 25, 1992. Then in the
1980s, British Filmmaker, Judith Bronowski, arranged an itinerant demonstration
workshop in U.S.A. participating Pedro Linares, Manuel Jiménez and a textil artisan
Maria Sabina from Oaxaca. Although the Oaxaca valley area already had a history
of carving animal and other types of figures from wood, it was at this time,
when Bronowski's workshop took place when artisans from Oaxaca knew the
alebrijes paper mache sculptures.)
2 comments:
Beautiful!!))
OMG Carraol, these are amazing...and a little scary at the same time, the scope of imagination is limitless oui!
p.s. love your flashback B&W
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