Notas en categoría: Jacobo y Maria Angeles exhibitions

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The Zapotec Calendar is composed of 13 months, each of 20 days. Each day is ruled by an animal, generating a cycle that repeats month after month. Discover the magic behind each of these magical animals.

Produccion time: 8 months

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In the Museum of Cultures of Oaxaca, the calendar is displayed with images of the 20 animals that constitute it. However, some elements of the piece are illegible because of deterioration. Thus the information is incomplete, almost as a kind of secret.

Many years ago, the mystery of the Zapotec Calendar awakened the minds of Jacobo and María, who became interested in mysticism as a way of understanding, organizing and living time. This is how the Zapotec Calendar collection was born, the result of vast research beginning in the late 1990s, and nurtured over the years. The artists provided body and form to the story through elaborate wood-carved figures. The craft is exercised today as an artistic and spiritual practice.

Iguana, coyote, turtle, chameleon, snake, armadillo, deer, rabbit, frog, dog, monkey, owl, possum, jaguar, eagle, cenzontle, butterfly, snail, fish, and hummingbird: 20 animals that are interpreted from different cosmovisions, families and ethnic groups. These animals inhabit the different regions of the State of Oaxaca. Every community has a different relationship with each one of them, generating a multiplicity of connotations. And at the same time, coinciding in core points that denote the true nature of each animal.
At their workshop, Jacobo y María Ángeles present this series of pieces with pride and knowledge.

The project ranges from miniature silver jewelry, the now classic wood carving, to the conception of monumental exercises. In appreciation for its 28 years, the workshop is pleased to present the origin of the Ángeles’ artistic understanding, which also inspires the conception of Tonas and Nahuales.
The history of Jacobo y María Ángeles Workshop with the Zapotec Calendar emerges from the particularities of memory, myth, and legend, as well as from the universal values of the culture. An allegory to the construction of belonging and identity. Being and knowing to be Zapotec.

Jacobo y María Ángeles

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Precious characters, carved in copal wood. Guardians are brave creatures who safeguard their tribe. These mythical characters of the “Nomads” tale hold their heads high as they accept responsibility for the care, transport and defense of all their tribe.

Produccion time: 14 months

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On some path of the world, even farther to the farthest, passing through incomparable trails, and greeting every unknown creature that approaches, there is a walking tribe, winding their way along the paths. A tribe made up of tonas, nahuales, warriors and guardians. The Guardians are the protagonists of our latest collection.

Guardians are brave creatures who safeguard their tribe. These mythical characters of the “Nomads” tale hold their heads high as they accept responsibility for the care, transport and defense of all. Theirs is a story about resistance, persecution and migration in a dystopian future, where science merges with ancestral cosmovisions, among them the Zapotec.

These precious characters, carved in copal wood, walk with their navigators on their backs, the gentle tonas and the intrepid warriors. These unusual creatures bounce in the air like little dancers.

Under the care of a Guardian, no risk compares to their strength. To protect is to give one’s life. The Guardians have imparted this lesson upon us: to embrace tightly, to be very careful in every step, in every word spoken; to remain calm in uncertainty for the safety and survival of others. Fortitude is their great gift. How much gentleness is needed for the hardness of survival?

Jacobo and Maria Ángeles are pleased to present their Guardians, a fantastic narrative in development for over 6 years, expressed in an innovative palette of pastel colors and textures based on research onZapotec symbolism. Precious figures, that continue to this day with their incessant walk.

In the midst of winter, I found there was,
within me, an invincible summer

Albert Camus

Jacobo y María Ángeles

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