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Mario Reyes Castillo (1926–2017) was a Mexican

Museo Nacional de Estampa and the Palacio de Bellas Artes. He was also a member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana
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Life

Mario Reyes Castillo was born in Mexico City in 1926.[1] When he stated that he wanted to study art, his parents warned that he would “die of hunger.”[2] Despite this, he went on to study at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda" under teachers such as Carlos Alvarado Lang, Isidoro Ocampo, Germán Cueto, Fernando Castro Pacheco and Carlos Orozco Romero.[3] In a later interview he stated that he did experience hunger before he was successful.[2]

Reyes later lived in Mérida.[4] He died there in 2017.[5][6][7]

Career

Reyes’ career spanned over five decades, and he was best known for his printmaking.[8][4] Much of that career was tied with his studio Taller Libre de Grabado Mario Reyes, founded in 1965.[9][1] The workshop produced more than one thousands works of art during its forty five years of production. This production has since been cataloged and published in book and interactive CD form under the title of Taller Libre de Grabado Mario Reyes.[1] Reyes did work such as the production of books and other publications for artists such as David Alfaro Siqueiros, Francisco Toledo, Rodolfo Nieto, Francisco Corzas, José Luis Cuevas and others.[3][4]

Reyes began exhibiting his work in 1954, and over his career he exhibited individually and collectively in Mexico, the United States and Europe.[1][9] Major individual exhibitions included the Instituto Francés de América Latina in 1970, Salón de la Plástica Mexicana in 1968, 1977, 1984 and 1986, the Palacio de Bellas Artes in 1990.[3] Later exhibitions included the Museo del Periodismo y las Artes Gráficas in Guadalajara in 2009.[2]

During his career, Reyes also taught graphic design and other courses in institutions such as the

Campeche.[10][8]

Reyes' first major award was the Salón de Grabado with the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana in 1970, of which he was a member.[3] After that he won the Salón de Otoño twice.[1] In 1992, the Museo Nacional de la Estampa held a tribute to his career, followed by another at the Palacio de Bellas Artes.[1][3] In 2013, the state of Campeche also held a tribute and retrospective in his honor at the Domingo Perez Piña Gallery in the city of Campeche and a retrospective was held at the Centro Cultural Olimpo in Mérida the same year.[10][4]

Among Reyes' pupils was the artist Georgina Quintana.[11]

Artistry

Reyes was a printmaker, sculptor and painter.

surrealist style.[3][2] He stated that he saw the female form in many places and things, even in trees.[4] Despite this preference his works also included meticulously drawn landscapes.[10][8]

His printmaking favored copper plates worked in acid,

watercolor, gouache and oils.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Cataloga Ivan Leroy producción de taller de grabado "Mario Reyes". Mexico City: NOTIMEX. September 11, 2010.
  2. ^ a b c d Alejandro Alvarado (May 17, 2009). Supera los prejuicios. Guadalajara: Mural. p. 6.
  3. ^
    ISBN 968 6258 56 6
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  4. ^ a b c d e Medio siglo con Mario Reyes (in Spanish). Diario de Yucatan. May 17, 2013. Retrieved September 30, 2013.[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ "REYES Mario (1926-2017)". Arcadja. Retrieved 6 December 2022.
  6. ^ "Mario Reyes". Morton Sabastas. Retrieved 6 December 2022.
  7. ^ "Mario Reyes, The Silent Artist. Retrospective". México es cultura. Retrieved 6 December 2022.
  8. ^ a b c Alejandro Mendoza (August 22, 2013). Rinden homenaje con exposición al artista Mario Reyes (in Spanish). Razon. Archived from the original on September 30, 2013. Retrieved September 30, 2013.
  9. ^ a b c Mario Reyes (in Spanish). Visual Arts. Archived from the original on October 3, 2013. Retrieved September 30, 2013.
  10. ^ a b c d e f Realizarán exposición "Tres facetas: pintura, grabado y escultura" (in Spanish). Comunica Campeche. August 22, 2013. Retrieved September 30, 2013.
  11. ISBN 978-1-135-63882-5
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