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(walking and flying, independent publication) In 2008 I found in a fence in the Condesa the remains of one of these posters ... recognized immediately to the character image as part of a known photograph Javier Hinojosa made between 1985-1986. Who was the author of this reminiscence? And why circulating again five years after the death of the aforementioned?. It took me about 8 months to make with the author, Mr. Fly, who sat down for coffee at Isabel La Católica, in the Historic Center ... Right in Melquiadesco territory.
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been over a year since I began to proliferate this colorful portrait of various fences and stands in Mexico City. Will the egg racks which he framed glasses improvised what intrigues? Many have wondered who is this character? the most daring have dared to ask if by chance it is Joe the apothecary or perhaps Huicho Domínguez, even though he hardly would be correct ... The funny thing is that far from resembling the above, Share with them your character somehow a deep interest in the "popular" culture, in a very different, for it meant the mood building a powerful vehicle, a weapon master knowledge and production.
His name is Melquiades Herrera (Mexico City from 1949 to 2003), an artistic producer of a rare authenticity understand the act of walking through the city as one of the greatest potential to understand the world: you have to walk when not may be doing nothing, he said. Melquiades was a type of intelligence and enviable simplicity was part of one of the groups more proactive and caustic transition of the 70's to 80 (the Non-Group) and then continue his creative process individually. A Melquiades is often pigeonholed as a performance artist and although it is certainly a core of action art presence in Mexico, it is also true that his "work" implies some scope for writing in a couple of national newspapers, produced art-object took actions to the video camera, set up a large collection of unusual objects found in street markets, defended the teaching as part of that creative process ... narrow error margins would be a producer as he understood that just the act of walking-make urban drift, as part of her artistic work. They say that constantly broke Melquiades traditional formats for example, led some students to a kind of gastronomic tour through the historic center and its surroundings by choosing the sites for the particularity of the dishes or under the premise of "how to eat to less than 10 pesos extraordinary things ... More than one person came to see taking the briefcase samsonite, which always accompanied him, a brown paper bag with a rotisserie chicken or a piece of crackling able to improvise an act sonorogastronómico.
His remark was extremely acute, achieved surprising relationships from an object daily thoughts he detonated complex, was able to break down a litany of considerations from the container of a popular soft drink, a decal of using the trucks, through a plastic figurine of Memin Pinguin or mask Hermelinda cute. As in the "lenses" that appear in the image of the poster, could flip the tortilla Melquiades functionality and meaning of a particular object set to build and show us many new possibilities from it. Sol
Henaro,
Barcelona, \u200b\u200bDecember 2009
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