Personajes de Morelos.
Tlayacapan Morelos, México: Printed by Sergio Sánchez Santamaría, 2016. 17 lvs. Image 30 x 22 cm, on sheet 38 cm x 28 cm. Illus. with color title leaf and colophone & 15 b/w linocuts. 15 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches. Loose in a pebbled black cloth over illustrated salmon-colored speckled board portfolio, each cover drawing unique and signed by the artist. First edition. Fine. Item #46311
Number 9 of a signed, limited edition of 15 copies with fifteen black and white linoleum block prints, title and colophon prints in green, each plate signed and numbered by the artist. In addition includes the original linoleum block for image 9 (30 x 23 cm), also signed and numbered, as well as a typed explanation by Santamaria for each plate. Fifteen bold linocuts of important personages -historical, mythical, and contemporary- from Tlayacapan and its surrounding pueblos in Morelos, México. Beginning with prehistoric warriors, sorcerers and demons, Santamaria moves through to the Mexican Revolution, to those from Morelos who participated including Emilio Zapata, Rubén Jaramillo, and Cristino Santamaria, the artist's grandfather, who rode with Zapata, and finally on to the present with a haunting and powerful portrait of the artist, who like Morelos' other sons, continues its traditions, only this time with a pen rather than a gun. An homage to all revolutionary spirits.
Sergio Sanchez Santamaria (Tlayacapan, Morelos, Mexico, 1976) is an award-winning print maker, muralist and illustrator in the tradition of Posada and Mendez, and a master of wood and lino cuts, mezzotint and lithography, who has exhibited in Mexico, the United States, Japan, Poland and Russia. He studied at the great "La Esmeralda", Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura, y Grabado in Mexico City, counting among his teachers, Alberto Beltrán, Francisco Moreno Capdevila, and Adolfo Mexiac.
"If Posada is the "godfather of political/modern printmaking" in Mexico, Sánchez Santamaría is the "heir that scratches" into a new generation of graphic artists of the nation."
List of prints:
"Guerrero Nahuatlaca" Morelos
"El Nahual Coyote" Tenextepango
"El Nahual" Jojutla
"El Soldado Zapatista" Tlaltizapan
"Chinelos de Tlayacapan"
"Chinelos" Tepoztlán
"Zapata" Anenecuilco
"General Otilio Montaño" Mapaxtlán
"Feliciano Polanco" Tlayacapan
"Chucho el Muerto. Autor Sones del Chinelo" Tlayacapan
"General Genovevo de la O" Ahuacatitlan
"Ruben Jaramillo" Xochicalco
"Mascarero" Tlayacapan
"Coronel Cristino Santamaría" Tlayacapan
"Autorretrato" Tlayacapan
Reference: Sánchez Santamaría, Sergio; Rojas Sotelo, Miguel, & Osuba, Rafael A., editors: Graphic in Transit: Sergio Sánchez Santamaría (Raleigh, NC: ASP Books, 2021).
Price: $2,500.00