RUFINO TAMAYO
A Comprehensive Survey of his
Mixografía® Prints 1974-1990

Tamayo portrait 1984

In the early 1970s, Luis and Lea Remba invited Rufino Tamayo to collaborate in printmaking at their workshop in Mexico City.  Tamayo was interested, but made it clear that he was looking for new horizons within the medium – particularly seeking ways to get more volume and texture into his prints.  This artistic challenge was the impetus for Remba to invent the Mixografía® printing technique.

Rufino Tamayo was the first artist to work in the Mixografía® print process producing 67 editions along with some lithographs over a 17-year period until his death.  These workshop editions represent one-fifth of his total out-put in printmaking during his lifetime.

Tamayo was born in Oaxaca, Mexico in 1899.  Orphaned at 12, he relocated to Mexico City with his aunt selling fruit in the open-air markets.  Tamayo’s artistic skills were honed early in life when he worked as a cataloger at the State Natural History Museum drawing pictures of Pre-Columbian artifacts found in the collections, and later, following the ideas of the Cubists in their use of color and plainer forms.  Tamayo attended the Academy of Fine Arts as a young adult from 1917 – 1921 and began exhibiting in 1926 with solo shows in New York and Mexico City.  His work has been exhibited continually ever since.  His career and his style constantly evolved, juxtaposing the primitive and mystical, the ideological and emotional.

Tamayo drawing Dos Personajes Atacados por Perros on stone, 1982

The exhibition features 41 prints created between 1974 and 1990, and includes the mural-size Dos Personajes Atacados por Perros, 1983, (“Two People Attacked by Dogs”) measuring 61 x 98 inches, and pulled from the largest litho stone in the world.

All artwork images are courtesy of individual artists, their estates, and the Mixografía® Workshop

Exhibition Facts

Contents           41 framed prints, 2 photomurals, text panels

Publications:     A Gallery Guide will be published

Space Req:        200 running feet approx

Loan Fee:           price on request
                    
Insurance:         Exhibitor responsible 

Shipping:           Exhibitor responsible 

Req:                    Appropriate security

Dates Avail:      Fall 2022 - 2026

Contact:           Jeffrey Landau, Director, LTE  -
                          Tel: 310-397-3098 -   Email   jlandau@a-r-t.com