MANUEL FELGUÉREZ

Great Master Manuel Felguérez was born in Valparaíso, Zacatecas in 1929. He was one of the most important Mexican artists, a pioneer of abstract art in our country, and a fundamental member of the Rupture Generation.

Felguérez’s work results from an incorporation and appropriation of geometrism-constructivism, informalism and abstract expressionism, within his own vision of art in Mexico. His work has been compared to Picasso and Rufino Tamayo by art experts such as Teresa del Conde.

In 1973 he was named a member of the Academy of Arts. In 1988 he received the National Prize for Sciences and Arts in the area of Fine Arts and in 2016 he was awarded the Fine Arts Medal by the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA).

Currently his work is part of large collections, both public and private, inside and outside Mexico.