CODE AZMX008
Arturo Zapata MEXICO
B.1951
–
MEXICO
D.2011
TITLE
SIZE (cm)
DATE / #/EDITION
TECHNIQUE
UNTITLED
30x40
CIRCA 1981 / UNIQUE
COLORS (INK) ON WOOD / HAND SIGNED
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Arturo Zapata (Mexico, D. F., 1951). He studied at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving "La Esmeralda" of the National Institute of Fine Arts. He has participated in numerous group shows in Mexico, the United States and Europe. He presented his first solo exhibition at twenty-five years of age and since then his series Zoomorphologies have stood out in the Salon de la Plastica Mexicana, in Mexico City (1992); Tepeyac contemporary codex, twelve works dedicated to the Virgin of Guadalupe and its sanctuary in La Villa (1995), Retrospective, in the Technological University of the State of Mexico (1995), Arturo Zapata, paintings, in the Casa Jaime Sabines of the City of Mexico (1996), recent work, at the ValparaĂso Foundation, in Almeria, Spain (1998), The representation of sentiment, in the Secretariat of Metropolitan Development, in the State of Mexico (2002), Arturo Zapata paintings, in the House of Culture of Azcapotzalco, in the City of Mexico (2003), and the retrospective Arturo Zapata, Painting, drawing and print, in Aldama Fine Art (2008). He has dabbled in the art-object and his projects in drawing are remarkable. His work in print is prolific and through it he has achieved important recognitions as the First Place in the Second Mini-Stamping Room of the National Museum of La Estampa (1989). It is, however, his pictorial work that with greater zeal seeks to vindicate Mexican values, using the iconographic baggage of national culture. After his recent retrospective at Aldama Fine Art and after three decades of incessant work, Zapata has returned to teaching, with sporadic print and painting projects. He is currently working on a new series of paintings that he will present at Aldama Fine Art in the near future. He dies in 2011.