At the funeral home, various cultural agents from Mazatlán and Sinaloa were remembering anecdotes with the painter
His colleagues from El Colegio de Sinaloa were also present, such as renowned writer Élmer Mendoza
Mazatlán, Sin.- On the occasion of the recent death of the artist Antonio López Sáenz, this Tuesday, August 15th, various personalities from politics and culture met this morning at the funeral home to say their last goodbye to the one who painted Mazatlán in an idyllic way.
Governor Rubén Rocha Moya, Juan Salvador Avilés Ochoa, Director of the Sinaloan Instituto de Cultura, along with Raúl Rico, Director of the Instituto Municipal de Cultura, Turismo y Arte de Mazatlán and municipal authorities, such as the Mayor of Mazatlán, Édgar González Zatarain were present.
The governor referred to the painter as a universal artist.
“He is an international, universal man, and I admire him a lot,” he said, and despite the fact that the painter deserves many tributes, he commented that Antonio López Sáenz himself never wanted recognition and distinctions.
The Director of ISIC referred to López Sáenz as a Mexican artist who expressed the beauty of Sinaloa that captivated the world.
“His colors, landscapes and warm and endearing characters, will make his absence less sad,” said Avilés Ochoa.
Raúl Rico, as an anecdote, spoke when the artist proposed to make a statue to commemorate the arrival of the millennium, in the year 2000.
“We are going to make a futuristic vision of the Sinaloan,” he said, and when he arrived with the sketch, it was a Sinaloan family with hats, as he liked to paint, to which he said: “that’s how the millennium grabbed us and that’s how we are going to be in the future”, he recalled.
The departure of the procession will be at 3:00 p.m. to the Cathedral of Mazatlán, where a mass will be offered for the body present at exactly 3:30 p.m. and then it will continue towards the cremation, in the Renacimiento Pantheon.
Antonio López Sáenz Antonio López Sáenz was born in 1936 in the port of Mazatlán; painter and sculptor who has captured the flavor of our land on canvas, clay and bronze. His land is the greatest source of inspiration and is embodied in every brushstroke of his work.
In the hands of López Saénz, the dyes take on the shape of women, men, boats, the sea, and are full of life, banda music, baseball, and Carnaval. López Sáenz’s paintings are postcards, full of memory and longing; He himself has reported that he paints with what he has seen since he was a child: landscapes, the patterns of his mother’s dresses and his aunts who met in the afternoons to talk sitting on easy chairs.
The characters in his work have no faces, as López Saenz has decided: leave those who live inside the canvases anonymous, knowing only the real actors in each piece.
