La muerte nuestra de cada día: una mirada contemporánea desde el heliograbado

The Fundación Casa de México en España in Madrid is hosting a group exhibition of nineteen Mexican artists on death and the experiences that surround it, realised using the photogravure technique.

The Fundación Casa de México en España brings together in Madrid nineteen Mexican artists of different generations and trajectories, with work centred on death and what accompanies it: absence, mourning, memory, disappearance, identity and the transformation of bodies and territories. It is a collective proposal that looks at this theme from the present.

The exhibition is curated by Edgar Alejandro Hernández and has been produced in collaboration with the Helio TM workshop and Pilar Goutas. Taking part are Andrea Aspe, Ángela Arziniaga, Arturo Fuentes, Carmen Mendoza, Cristina Kahlo, Cristóbal Gracia, Fernanda de Icaza, Gerardo González, Graciela Iturbide, Guillermo Espinosa, Héctor García, Martín Soto Climent, Maya Goded, Miguel G. Counahan, Piguame, Pilar Goutas, Santiago Borja, Tamara Goutas and Yvonne Venegas. The thirty-one works, created for this occasion, come in a range of formats and sizes.

The exhibition works with prints on paper, chine collé, Japanese paper and photogravure matrices on copper. Some works incorporate embroidery, tempera, silver or polyurethane varnish, which shows the variety of resources this technique offers within contemporary artistic practice. The route proposes intimate, social and symbolic approaches, and moves away from a folkloric or uniform vision of Mexico's relationship with death.