As I said in my previous post, last Thursday I went downtown to the Museum of Popular Art, my favorite smaller museum in Mexico City. The museum is housed in an art deco building which used to the headquarters of the city's fire department.
There are, at this moment, two special exhibits at the museum. The first is a collection of works by the artist Olegario Hernández, a native of Oaxaca. For many of his pieces Hernández drew inspiration from "mezzotinta", a 17th century technique of monochromatic printmaking that yielded half tones from light to dark.
Hernández also does pieces of sculpture and decorates gourds.
From there I went upstairs to another special exhibit.
Magnificent!
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