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About the Artist
Luis Guillermo Trejo is a young Mexican artist with an unusual interest in magazines from the fifties, especially the large illustrated ones like "Life" and "Look”. He has culled from this rich source a series of images which translate into cultural archetypes. He has discovered there a particularly eloquent sort of body language which graphically describes social relationships and values at that point in history, the post war attempt to establish a safe, contained system: families and homes and women in the kitchen. His vision from forty years of distance allows him to zero in on the ironical and even comical qualities of all that is acted out in the magazines.
He makes use of several mediums to translate the images: woodcuts, drawings, as well as prints combined with drawings, and large-scale site-specific wall drawings.
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