CARICIA , by Alfredo Zalce. Is a
beautiful 30 inch high by 14 inch wide bronze
sculpture with green patina. In a bronze base
that stand at 12 inches, this is number 5 of 6.
It would look dynamic in any home. GOOD LUCK !
There will be no handling charge, buyer will
only be responsible for shipping costs. SORRY NO
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY OR PROVENANCE
PAPERS. ABOUT THE ARTIST :He was born in
Patzcuaro, in the state of Michoacan, on January
12, 1908. During his early years he became
friends with Mexico's older great artists,
including Rivera, Tamayo, Siquieros, Orozco, and
Kahlo. He founded art schools and organizations
which still function and are of current
importance. When the President of Mexico last
visited the Vatican, the one gift from Mexico
chosen as a gift to the Pope was a small
painting of a Mexican village painted by Maestro
Alfredo Zalce. Unlike other artists, Zalce has
spent an entire lifetime avoiding fame and
fortune. He simply wants to paint. His artistic
versatility is partially demonstrated by his
total mastery in producing art with oil,
acrylic, batik, pencil, watercolor, engraving,
serigraph, bronze, stone, ink, pastel, ceramic,
monotype, and on and on. His art has been
exhibited in every country of the free world,
and his numerous gigantic murals and statues
represent a vital part of Mexican history. Zalce
nevertheless remains a humble and people-loving
man who would rather draw and paint than sell
art. He hasn't dealt with art galleries because
they want him to paint what they can sell, and
he paints for enjoyment rather than money.
Nevertheless, celebrities and politicians
worldwide wait in line for years to obtain an
artwork from him. Zalce has earned almost every
available honor for artists, which he has
usually accepted against his will. After
declining the "Premio Nacional de Arte"
(Mexico's highest honor for artists) two times
because with it came fame and money, he finally
accepted in 2001. When the Government of
Michoacan changed the name of its museum of
contemporary art to the "Museo de Arte
Contemporaneo Alfredo Zalce" (pictured here) he
had to be tricked into attending the
inauguration ceremony or he would not have
attended. He loved being with the people at the
event, but would have declined having his name
used so prominently. Probably the first art that
Zalce produced was at the age of 6 or 7. He had
made drawings on the white parts of a linoleum
floor which featured large white and black
square patterns. He says that his drawings were
not very good, but that his Mother, a
professional photographer as was his Father, had
complimented the works rather than punishing him
for drawing on the floor. This encouragement
from her may be what prompted him to continue
drawing. Zalce feels that if a person cannot
draw with skill, he or she cannot be a truly
fine artist. He also feels that along with
artistic talent, imagination is necessary.
Neither is adequate without the other---talent
and imagination. If one uses no imagination yet
produces art to the perfection of a photograph,
why not just use a camera? Zalce is quite
capable of producing art to the perfection of a
photograph, of course. In more recent years he
concentrated on "batik." Batik was probably
developed in Java, and is normally thought of as
a way to make patterns on cloth, using a wax
process to keep the colors from bleeding into
one another. But with Maestro Zalce, batik
became a way of producing fine art. Since it
requires days to produce due to the wax
processes, and since errors made are
uncorrectable and require that the cloth be
washed and re-used, he considers his works in
batik to be as or more important than his
watercolors. Through his skills in drawing, he
became one of Mexico's first acknowledged great
engravers. He has made engravings using all
engraving techniques. His plates have included
zinc, bronze, wood, and linoleum, but all
engravings first required skill in drawing.
Zalce considers one of his hundreds of
engravings, "Mexico-Transforming into a Major
City" to be somewhat autobiographical. One night
on arriving at his home, located in Mexico City
at the time, he told the taxi driver, "Let me
out by that mound of trash over there." The city
was outgrowing itself. When he left the taxi he
saw a man, not drunk, talking to a dog that was
eating from a trash barrel. The man told the dog
to leave that trash alone because it could eat
anywhere and he had to find food for his entire
family. This inspired Zalce, and the engraving
shows hunger, crime, desperation, large
buildings under construction which caused much
noise throughout the nights, as well as the man
and the dog. Zalce says he couldn't even give
this large engraving away at the time because
Mexicans love their country and didn't like the
concept of crime and poverty. This work was
produced in 1947 and is just as true today for
any large city in the world. As with all of
Mexico's revolutionary muralists, Zalce's murals
include morals. In his mural
"Abogados"("Lawyers"), located in the
Procuraduria General de la Republica (Federal
District Attorney's building), Zalce shows
lawyers hiding their faces as they uncaringly
step over the body of a losing client. A
historical mural, which is some 280 square yards
in size and is located in the Palacio de
Gobierno in Morelia (State Capitol building),
pictures on one section a historic meeting as
Spanish General Iturbide is seen extending his
blood covered hand in friendship to Mexican
General Guerrero. Another huge 17 yard long
bronze (a section shown here) located in the
Camara de Diputados in Morelia (House of
Representatives), shows people in poverty and a
document in the hand of Mexican General Morelos
to teach the politicians working in the building
that they work for the people who need them, not
the other way around. In one of Morelia's parks
stand three huge cement columns, "The Estelas."
On all four sides of each Estella, Zalce carved
images representative of Mexico's three
constitutions. Also, in Mexico City, Zalce's
giant murals contribute to the atmosphere of the
world famous Museum of Anthropology. . Zalce
always has time for people, and is never too
busy to spend as much of his time with friends
as they wish. He is and has always been
surrounded by his people, many of whom are his
loving lady admirers. Zalce has been consumed
with art since his childhood and is one of the
few artists that has continued painting, rather
than dedicating himself to abstract art of
questionable integrity. Alfredo Zalce is one of
Mexico's better kept secrets, one of its finest
human beings, and is very much a living legend.
Died in January 19, 2003. I sincerely hope that
many others enjoy his great work as much as I
do. Please feel free to e-mail me with any
question prior to bidding time. Thank you, and
don't forget to check out my other items up for
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