América

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.