America XXI
House America Catalonia. Exhibition Hall. Until the end of 2021
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Within the framework of the commemorative acts of the 110 years of Casa Amèrica Catalunya, the artist from Cuajinicuilapa (Guerrero, Mexico) Baltazar Castellano Melo, presents the mural America XXI. This work reflects, from the artistic spirit of this muralist with indigenous and Afro-American roots, contemporary Latin America that vindicates its origins and the cultural syncretism that defines it.
Baltazar Castellano Melo and the anthropologist Olga Manzano Vega placeholder image have painted, carved and built this work in volume during the first two weeks of September 2021.
For these young creators, their works are a vehicle to raise their voices, generate knowledge and claim the complexity of the always multiple identity of the American continent.
On the one hand, its objective is for the viewer to know those cultural traits that have been forgotten or even denied, but often its interventions also include community participation from the configuration of the content to the pictorial work itself.
BALTAZAR CASTELLANO MELO (Cuajinicuilapa, Mexico, 1983)
Son of a black mother and father of the Mixtec indigenous people, from a very young age Baltazar Castellano Melo he has felt strongly linked to his cultural roots, especially because of his mother figure.
At age 21 he began his artistic studies, graduating from the School of Plastic Arts of Oaxaca (2008).
Between cultural elements and a great variety of styles –experienced and to be experienced–, Castilian Melo has given life to more than 500 pieces, including pictorial and graphic works.
His work has been exhibited in the Amparo Museum in Puebla (Mexico), as well as in the Agusta Savage Gallery of the University of Massachusetts Amherst (United States), in the Spanish Cultural Center of Panama City and in the Image Center from Mexico City.
See full video of the opening ceremony of the exhibition America XXI Mural.
Watch America XXI mural celebrates 110 years of Casa Amèrica Catalunya
Visiting hours to the exhibition: Business days, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
NOTE: On the occasion of the celebration of the Sensory Tour inspired by America XXI, the exhibition cannot be visited on October 13, 14 and 15. Sorry for bothering you.
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