Ernesto Muñiz
Graphic designer, illustrator, plastic artist and press photographer, who worked in various newspapers and magazines in both Mexico City and the US. winning the Silver Medal of the “Society of News Design of America” in 2007, and his photographs were selected within the best journalism in Latin America, by the English newspaper “The Guardian” for his best-known photo “Zócalo Surf”
In a period of personal crisis, he trades in the camera for paper, glue and scissors, and begins to make collages as a form of therapy. At first pasting collages of Saints and Virgins, transforming them into guerrillas, which gave rise to his series “Altares de Guerrilla” that began to gain notoriety in the popular culture of the streets of Mexico and the cities he was visiting, managing to exhibit his work. in various galleries.
His work is a complex union of hundreds of pieces of paper that he gets from old magazines, books, posters, and even the garbage, to carefully cut, compose and paste, creating his internal worlds, from his external world, in a style that It is considered “Baroque Pop Collage”.
In a period of personal crisis, he trades in the camera for paper, glue and scissors, and begins to make collages as a form of therapy. At first pasting collages of Saints and Virgins, transforming them into guerrillas, which gave rise to his series “Altares de Guerrilla” that began to gain notoriety in the popular culture of the streets of Mexico and the cities he was visiting, managing to exhibit his work. in various galleries.
His work is a complex union of hundreds of pieces of paper that he gets from old magazines, books, posters, and even the garbage, to carefully cut, compose and paste, creating his internal worlds, from his external world, in a style that It is considered “Baroque Pop Collage”.
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