L’ŒIL PENSE MEETING WITH ALBERTO BLANCO
“EVERYTHING WE DO IS A COLLAGE”
Grécia Cacerès offers us a monthly cultural event with the Maison de l’Amérique Latine, our partner.
This month, L’Œil pense presents a meeting with Alberto Blanco, poet and visual artist.
Presentation and translation by Paul-Henri Giraud.
The Mexican artist and poet Alberto Blanco will talk to us about his collage practice, based on his website www.albertoblancocollage.com.
Presenting some of his series will allow him to evoke a wide variety of registers, themes, materials, and approaches, from 1960s Pop Art to abstract, conceptual, and three-dimensional collages.
Alberto Blanco was born in 1951 in Mexico City, where he lives. He holds a master’s degree in Oriental studies and has published thirty-six books of poetry in Mexico and sixteen others in various countries. His work has explored countless poetic forms, from the most archaic and traditional to the most contemporary and experimental. He believes, however, that he has only ever worked on three books: a book of poems, a book of essays on the visual arts, and a poetics.
His poems have been translated into more than twenty languages. He received the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize in 2016 and was named an Emeritus Creator by the Mexican government in 2018.
A friend of Octavio Paz, Leonora Carrington, Francisco Toledo, Gunther Gerzso, Vicente Rojo, and many creators of his own generation, Alberto Blanco has practiced drawing, oil painting, collage, watercolor, gouache, drypoint, engraving, and sculpture for more than 50 years, and has produced numerous artist’s books.
THE L’ŒIL PENSE MEETINGS ARE OFFERED BY IESA ARTS&CULTURE AND THE MAISON DE L’AMÉRIQUE LATINE
