Menduina Schneider Art Gallery
Presents
“Weaving Bridges and Bringing Down Walls”
Created by Taller La Muñeca
Director: Monica Romero Davila
Artists:
Dolores Romero
Maru Valdez
Chapis Fregoso
Hana Sánchez Verea
Liliana Rizo
Marissela Esqueda
Claudiela Goya
Martha Orozco
Mónica Romero
February First Thursday
February 3rd, 6 Pm
Menduina Schneider Art Gallery 366 West 7th Street, San Pedro, California 90731
Curatorial Text:
There’s something about shows that dwell in one of the main problems of human existence, Migration, that it’s always better understood in a collective show. Migration is mostly a monumental communal effort. A sea of people on the go, many times blindly and helplessly moving towards a promised land. Even if an individual decides to migrate on his own, he soon finds himself in the middle of a larger migration, as their paths collide, merge, or simply walk a parallel line towards the same shore. This collective exhibition is the brainchild of Mónica Romero Dávila, Print Master and founder of the Taller Gráfico La Muñeca in Guadalajara, Mexico. She has gathered eight wonderful printmakers from her own studio, and together they gave birth to this project. Mexico has a long and wonderful tradition when it comes to printmaking. The likes of Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros, and later Anguiano, all have contributed to the bulk of printmaking in Mexico. So, it is not strange to see a topic such as migration being depicted through this art. The show is raw and unforgiving. It makes us think hard and long about all the walls that have been erected around the world. It talks about the absence of bridges and the imprisonment of anonymous people anywhere in the world, very often in parcels of land in between countries. Forgotten people languishing in the cracks of the so-called civilized world. And yet, at the heart of this darkness, there’s hope. The artist’s hope. The artist strives to weave bridges in our collective mind, forcing us to demolish our preconceived walls. This show is a loud silent scream to make us acknowledge the horror of a forgotten human flow. A mass that moves aimlessly around the world without any solution in sight.
Jorge Schneider
Author of “La Grieta” Editorial NuevoHacer Grupo Editor Latinoamericano. “La Sombra de la Langosta” Editorial Serie El Escriba. “Lucas, an adventure of Spirit” Writer’s Press
