Monday, April 5, 2010

DIA #20 - FLOOR TILES

I love that floor tiles are always different from one building to another in Oax.. What a waste  we've sacrificed beauty to standardization..























The ones below are reinterpretations of old tiles by contemporary artists:

















Thursday, April 1, 2010

DIA #15 - CASA DE ARTES SAN AGUSTIN ETLA

Can't get enough of this amazing space just opened 4 years ago at the initiative of Francesco Toledo. It used to be a textile and thread mill and has been transformed into an art center.































There is currently a temporary exhibition of ceramics by Brigitte Pernicault and Gustavo Perez:





Saturday, March 27, 2010

Dia #11 - Street art

There's very little graffiti this year compared to a couple of years ago, I read somewhere that a lot of it was painted over last fall. Most of the ones below come from one house near Santo Domingo and the last one is from Ocotlan.