Edmundo Font

Edmundo Font (Tampico, 23/06/1953) is a latecomer to the plastic arts, having first excelled as a writer and poet. His longstanding achievements in literature, however, have always been inspired by artistic creation. He has dealt with the theme of painting ever since the publication of his first piece, Otra vez Guernica (Guernica Revisited) by Ediciones Metfora in 1973. More recent works include El dedo de Cratilo (Cratylus' Finger) which appeared in the Cuadernos de Malinalco Collection (1998), and Cascada de azul desierta (Blue Desert Waterfall), published by the Autonomous Metropolitan University (2002), with illustrations by the artist Gilberto Aceves Navarro. Font began to paint after passing through a solitary preparatory process, with no instruction in the academies or studios of master artists. He mastered photographic composition, collage, installations, and went on to work with materials that have enabled him to produce works using mixed techniques and acrylics on wood and canvas. Font is an outsider who is acquainted with the artistic traditions of seven countries on the four continents where he has lived for 25 years. The experience of being immersed in cultural traditions so dissimilar as those of India, Italy, Brazil...

OUTSIDER EDMUNDO FONT'S SOLO SHOWS Imgenes Tendidas (A Spread of Images). Collage on wooden boxes, photographs, and a reproduction of Gandhi's room in his Ashram at Delhi.Convent Museum and Center of Historical Documentation at Tepoztln, Morelos. December 2001-January 2002. Luz y Aire de la India (The Light and Air of India). A large-scale photographic installation, with photos printed on the sheer silky fabric known as French tergal, and attached with wooden clothespins to a clothesline suspended between bamboo poles. Public spaces. Plazas and avenues in Mexico City, including the atrium of the Santo Domingo Cathedral, the Plaza Francisco Primo de Verdad, the Tlatelolco subway station, the Monument to the Mother, and lvaro Obregn Avenue. April-December 2002. Nunca Ms (Never Again). Collage. 11 boxes. Cement blocks, tools, typewriters, computer chips, simulated animals, and other objects. 111cm x 111cm, with 366 X 244 cm triptych. Convent Museum and Center of Historical Documentation at Tepoztln, Morelos. December 2002-January 2003. Luz y Aire de la India (The Light and Air of India). Large-scale acrylic on canvas, with photographs printed on transparent cloth. These are the first paintings exhibited by Font.Museum of Anthrop...