Juan Manuel de La Rosa, Homenaje a Pasado

Description

Artist: Juan Manuel De La Rosa (Mexican, born 1945)
Title: Homenaje a Pasado
Year: 1979
Medium: Mixed media and collage, … more Artist: Juan Manuel De La Rosa (Mexican, born 1945)
Title: Homenaje a Pasado
Year: 1979
Medium: Mixed media and collage, with embossing
Paper: Hand made
Image size: 11.75 x 13.75 inches
paper size: 11.75 x 13.75 inches
Signature: Hand signed and dated in pencil by the artist at the lower right corner
Condition: Excellent
Frame: Unframed, matted with fabric covered mat
Description The size including matting is 17.25 x 20.25 inches

About the artist.

Juan Manuel De la Rosa was born in Sierra Hermosa, a small village in the municipality of Villa de Cos, Zacatecas, in 1945. At the age of 17 he studied at the Arts Workshop at the University of Nuevo Leon. In the years 1962 to 1963 he moved to Mexico City to continue his studies at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving The Esmeralda, the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA), founded in 1927 under President Plutarco Elias Calles. In the late sixties (1969), he moved to the shoal area to study at the University of Guanajuato. By the University of Nuevo Leon won a scholarship to study at the Atelier Clot, the Bramsen, the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and Dimitri Papaguerguiu workshop in Madrid.
He is a renowned painter, engraver, maker of paper and ceramics. Juan Manuel De la Rosa has done throughout his career specialized studies on various techniques of making handmade paper in countries like Egypt, USA and Japan. He has also taught courses in this specialty in different institutions in various countries.
His work has been highly noted by the world art community. He has visited countries such as Venezuela, United States, Switzerland, Belgium, Colombia, Argentina, Spain and several states in Mexico, with solo exhibitions since 1966 with its first exhibition in the Gallery Form the city of Monterrey. Since then has had more than 30 solo exhibitions in cities such as Aguascalientes, Puebla, Zacatecas Mexico City, Guanajuato, Morelia, Buenos Aires, Zurich, Madrid, Brussels, Caracas, San Francisco and Bogota. His work is held in many major permanent collections and museums worldwide such as:
Museum of Modern Art, Santiago , Chile.
Pinacoteca of Monterrey , NL, Mexico .
Museum of the University of Antwerp , Belgium .
Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango , Bogota , Colombia .
Museum of Jaen , Spain .
Museum of Latin American Art , Long Beach , Cal , USA.
Art Gallery of the University of Colima , Colima, Mexico .
The Mexican Museum, San Francisco , Calif . , USA.
Abstract Art Museum Manuel Felguérez , Zacatecas , Zac . , Mexico less