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Alejandro Arango
(Mexico City, 1950)
Author's artworks
20
th
-21
st
Century Mexican
A fleeting star of
Neo-Mexicanism
word that designates the artistic production carried out in México from 1980 that reflects on the symbols of Mexican culture, popular art and the traces of indigenous communities. It appeared as a claim of figurative languages after two decades of abstract expressionism. The main figures os this stile are Nahum B. Zenil (1947), Enrique Guzmán (1952-1986), Germán Venegas (1959) and Francisco Toledo (1940-2019).
, Alejandro Arango gave up his initial studies in advertising to enrol at La Esmeralda National School of Painting, Sculpture and Printmaking and at Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas. A painter, sculptor, engraver, drawing artist and illustrator, his work reveals echoes of graphic design and also of the cosmopolitan aspirations derived from his formative travels.
All his painting (and indeed his sculpture too) focuses on the human figure. He joined the ranks of the neo-figurative movement that held sway among young postmodern painters reacting against seventies neoconceptualism, and adopted a narrative approach, as he explains: “I like telling stories. A fiction develops out of an image, and I unconsciously capture in the painting a moment I wish to convey.”
Arango sources his iconography from cinema, television, media photographs and comic strips as well as the evident inspiration of the Belgian painter Corneille (1922-2010), a member of the
CoBrA group
Group of nordic artists that got together in 1948 in Paris in order to promote an experimental way of creating art. This new approach was based on the individual expression of the author. Their main promoters were the artists Asger Jorn (1914-1973), Karel Appel Constant (1921-2006) y Conreille (1922-2010) and the writers Christian Dotremont y Joseph Noiret. The name of the group responds to the initial letters of their cities of origin (Copenhaguen, Brussels y Amsterdam). The works by these artists are influenced by Nordic Expressionism and by Jean Dubuffet’s (1901-1985) Informalism. Their art has been related to American action painting as it proposes a plastic language based in spontaneity, color, material and gesture.
. He interprets them not so much as part of the logical sequence of a narrative but rather as a response to his fascination for visual snapshots and decontextualized anecdotes. Accordingly, his images outline the embryo of a tale without actually materialising it in an articulate narrative. Likewise, he drew many of his recurring visual references from his assiduous travels.