Mexican Art Projects
Enrique Flores: Philanthropic Oaxacan artist has the golden touch
Alvin Starkman MA, LL.B.
Enrique Flores is one of the most prolific Mexican artists of his generation. If they had been mentored by the late master of contemporary Mexican art, Rodolfo Morales, has not evil, nor the fact that two of the galleries highlights Oaxaca, Indigo and Arte de Oaxaca, were his customers for many years, but there is no substitute for. hard work, talent and vision that characterize each Flores.
Flores has been exhibiting his work throughout Mexico and the United States since 1985. At the beginning of 1990 began to receive recognition worldwide as a major force in Latin American art scene with exhibitions in Japan in 1992, and the Netherlands, the year next. Heineken has been commissioned to paint two murals for a U.S. campaign promotional efforts to attract Mexican-American consumers. His stylization of women native of Mexico and the distinctiveness of his work were brought to the attention of art lovers in the 1994 publication, Arte y Alma de Oaxaca (Oaxaca Art and Soul) supported by the Gallery of Fine Arts, New York, and the landmark 1998 book, images and color images of Oaxaca (Oaxaca and colors). A well-received children's book illustrated published in Spanish and English for children from the press, Harvest Bird (Bird harvest).
Flores was born in Huitz, in the Mixteca region of Oaxaca, a July 1963. He started painting during his high school for 70 days. In 1980, his training began, the study design with Jesus Vasquez in Oaxaca while attending school. In 1981 he joined the highly respected School of Fine Arts of Oaxaca. The following year he went to art school in Mexico City: "But my goal was to enter the School of Painting and Sculpture, "Flores said" Even if there was a recommendation of Rufino. Tamayo, who was not accepted because I had all my credits in high school. However, everything went well for the better, because a friend introduced me to Rodolfo Morales. "They have developed a close relationship. Flores Morales regularly to study in Coyoacan to chat and see him at work, while Morales is pleased to have a young protege who has been able to provide technical advice.
On his return to Oaxaca, as the country's capital, Flores entered Taller Rufino Tamayo (Rufino Tamayo Workshop) where he was able to live in one of the apartments are small, while enrolled in an apprenticeship of two years. Later he studied with Maestro Juan Alcázar. Not wanting to travel between Huitz and Oaxaca, We found an apartment in the center of Oaxaca. In 1988, after studying three years at Alcázar, Flores returned to Huitz, and has remained ever since. When Morales returned to his hometown of Ocotlan in the late '80s, the friendship was rekindled, with the meeting Ocotlán Morales Flores, and periodically when Morales would be in Oaxaca.
"Of course, Morales was my main mentor over the years," Flores easily recognizable, but the Their work has provided an important stimulus for more than half the artists of Oaxaca. However, if you look at my work carefully, it should be clear that I am a student of a number of the Impressionists, including Monet and Gauguin. consider very strong influence in my work, just look at my use of color "but only asked Flores name, and enigmatic Flemish painter Hieronymus Bosch (Jerome) (C. 1450-1516). rolls off the tongue now. Enrique extraordinary fusion of influences becomes apparent.
Although the elements and styles that some of his works have in common with those of Morales, the Impressionists, and certainly Bosch, as a student of the human condition clearly follows his inspiration Flores a much wider range of sources … the study of cultures past and present in his homeland and elsewhere in contemporary society. For example, during studies Japan began to experiment. With oriental forms and indicia of Eastern culture as a deity incorporating such knowledge and personal growth and continues to work Oaxaca:. "I did a lot of pencil sketches and watercolor in my notebook at the time yet I still occasionally refer to the designs of the time looking for something a bit 'different or while I'm struggling with how to express in a particular job. I sometimes juxtaposed components of Japanese society, with themes and traditions in Mexico.
In a period of ten years Flores spent two or three months a year in Montana, with the rest of their family environment as a means of both rejuvenation and fostering creativity. But that was his constant presence in the Mixteca, which was the inspiration being more important, he says. "Huitz was historically the border between the Mixtec and Zapotec cultures, in order to have at least three distinct groups, the Mixtec, Zapotec and right here in Huitz is a combination of both. "The consequences? This basketball is not the rich cultures of the three world views, customs including dress, dance and other cultural events, and perhaps most important for an artist like Flores, differences in the physical structure — facial height, texture of hair, behave, etc.
Flores acknowledges the debt of gratitude to those who have shaped their creative forces, and in turn their success. Visible on the way back to the community all that it has received, and Moreover, through his philanthropic gestures. regularly donates pieces to benefit art auction. Although it sometimes takes a percentage of revenue the sales of their works to help assume the costs on a regular basis outright donate his works: "If a city or town has what I consider a lot of work worthy of help charity, and I know that market prices will not support profitable sales at auction, then I have no doubt just by giving my works to the organizers. "
Recognizing his deep debt the likes of Morales, the Alcazar and others who have generously offered their time and advice, Flores responds in kind, giving of himself in all possible for young people. Generation of artists of Oaxaca are students regularly between four and six of the School of Fine Arts in work and study with him in his studio: "I welcome in my easy to work on their projects, ask for my advice, and just see how I work, and step in. In many cases, as there is sufficient material in universities in relation to the number of students enrolled in fine arts program, and since most students are poor and can not precisely what I need, leave them to use everything you have. My only rules are that in the afternoon Saturday at the end of the working week, my shop is left clean and tidy, and my team is in good condition. "While oil and water colors of flowers usually do not require high end or expensive tools of the trade, has no real products and other expensive machinery for the production of type lithographs and prints.
The golden touch Flores is just a lot of luck in life as a result of being guided by teachers, exposure received through the art books and over a hundred exhibitions in galleries, and almost a quarter of a century, its ability to produce what has continued to attract the public to buy Enrique Flores has always had a clear vision of what you want to accomplish.
At only 45 years, most of the race Flores still developing. His lab was a long-term project, started in 1998. In the true way of Oaxaca, the construction has progressed in stages. But it is already managed to build a modern domed ceiling, which hosts the bulk of their work outside. While larger and better equipped than most of these laboratories to the state, Flores intends to proceed with further expansion, clearly an act of love. Plans to add a building exclusively for the ceramics, because as a potter equipped with it, without an oven and other equipment that must travel to Oaxaca to use the services of a colleague. He also wants to expand its operation in relation lithography Again, that will require the construction outside the existing structure.
But Enrique Flores will be the final two projects on the horizon, that stands out most from, and contribute to the legacy for the next generation of artists from Oaxaca, and ultimately, art collectors everywhere. Flores proposes the construction of small apartment units for students of art and essays, and open an art gallery showing her in the room, but the most important works of talented and promising young artists fighting for the exposure … back the same way that you received.
About the Author
Alvin Starkman received his Masters in Social Anthropology in 1978. After teaching for a few years he attended Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, thereafter embarking upon a career as a litigator until 2004. Alvin now resides in Oaxaca, where he writes, leads small group tours to the villages, markets, ruins and other sites, is a consultant to film production companies, and operates Casa Machaya Oaxaca Bed & Breakfast. ( http://www.oaxacadream.com ) .
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