América
Subtitle: visiones nuevas desde el Viejo Mundo : Demián Flores
By: textos de Daniel Brena [and four others] ; y comentarios a las obras de Lluvia Sepúlveda Jiménez
Contributors: Centro de las Artes de San Agustín
Edition: Primera edición.
Publisher: Demián Flores
Published: 2019
Place of publication: México]
Language: spa
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9786072916494
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Exhibitions; Influence; Multimedia (Art); In art; Mexican Art; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); America (Bry, Theodor de)
Other titles: Visiones nuevas desde el Viejo Mundo :
Description: The exhibition "America. New visions from the old world" is the continuation of a first graphic project by Demián Flores (Juchitán, Oaxaca, 1971) entitled Collateral disasters, series of eighty-three prints published in 2012, for which he used Francisco de la Guerra's disasters as a base Goya On this occasion, Demián delivers a new body of fifty-four graphic works and an installation, divided into four series: The Good Savage, Anthropophagy, The Destruction of the Indies and America. Work that is abbreviated in the illustrations of Theodor De Bry, a 16th century editor and engraver originally from Liege in present-day Belgium, who made a large production of prints on the American continent without ever having traveled to these territories. Almost five centuries away, Theodor De Bry's work reads as a visual construction of the American affair from the European imaginary, an iconographic reinterpretation that also served as a backdrop to launch a harsh criticism of the expansion of the Spanish Crown in the Northern Europe, through raw images about the Iberian conquest of territories in the New World. Demián replicates that underlying intention in De Bry's work, creating his own images populated with signs, symbols and visual notes. The palimpsest created by Demián on the work of De Bry, forms a new narrative to cite recent history in Mexico, specifically the acts of violence that afflict our society today and that seem to be the product of a new  conquestʺ, a modern "Colonization" carried out by organized crime, whose virulence takes over territories and people with the same ferocity as that of the conquerors of America in the 16th century

The exhibition "America. New visions from the old world" is the continuation of a first graphic project by Demián Flores entitled Collateral disasters, series of eighty-three prints published in 2012, for which he used Francisco de Goya "La Guerra's disasters" as a base. On this occasion, Demián delivers a new body of fifty-four graphic works and an installation, divided into four series: The Good Savage, Anthropophagy, The Destruction of the Indies and America. Work that is abbreviated in the illustrations of Theodor De Bry, a 16th century editor and engraver originally from Liege in present-day Belgium, who made a large production of prints on the American continent without ever having traveled to these territories. Almost five centuries away, Theodor De Bry's work reads as a visual construction of the American affair from the European imaginary, an iconographic reinterpretation that also served as a backdrop to launch a harsh criticism of the expansion of the Spanish Crown in the Northern Europe, through raw images about the Iberian conquest of territories in the New World. Demián replicates that underlying intention in De Bry's work, creating his own images populated with signs, symbols and visual notes. The palimpsest created by Demián on the work of De Bry, forms a new narrative to cite recent history in Mexico, specifically the acts of violence that afflict our society today and that seem to be the product of a new  conquestʺ, a modern "Colonization" carried out by organized crime, whose virulence takes over territories and people with the same ferocity as that of the conquerors of America in the 16th century.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition held a the Centro de las Artes de San Agustín San Agustín in Etla, Oaxaca, México, from July 5, 2019 to September 29, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Presentación / Demián Flores; title: América: visiones nuevas desde el Viejo Mundo / Luvia Sepúlveda Jiménez; title: América de Demián Flores / Joaquín Barriendos; title: De Bry y su producción grafica del nuevo mundo / Alfredo Bueno Jiménez; title: La poesía es un arma cargada de futuro / Juan Bautista Peiro; title: Demián Flores desvela el grabado tradicional desde el arte contemporáneo / Antonio Alcaraz; title: Comentarios a las obras / Lluvia Sepúlveda Jiménez.