Results : 20th century Arts
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April, Monday 22nd at 3 pm
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EMAUS WORKSHOPS, SANTA MARÍA AHUACATITLÁN, MEXICO
Ateliers EMAUS, Santa María Ahuacatitlán, Mexico
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sculpture in soldered brass, signed and numbered on the back
Note: the Emaús workshops are best known for creating the participation medals for the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico.
"In the 1950s and 1960s, the Emaús workshops in Santa María Ahuacatitlán, located north of the city of Cuernavaca in the state of Morelos, Mexico, played a key role in redefining religious art in Mexico. These workshops were initiated by Gabriel Chavez de la Mora, a Benedictine monk at the Gregorio Lemercier monastery. Lemercier was born in Belgium in 1912 and arrived in Mexico in 1942 with the aim of opening a monastery. After several unsuccessful attempts, he finally succeeded in 1950, when he founded the Benedictine monastery of Santa María de la Resurrección in Ahuacatitlán. Emaús' workshops were part of the monastery's permanent activities. The monks' works feature imagery and motifs that are part of the Mexican collective imagination." Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College