A call to take care of the planet is part of the message that Professor Lucila Santiago expressed in “Migrant Papers,” made up of a series of piees that reflect her commitment to the environment. The exhibition will open on September 12th at 7:00 p.m. at Galería Rubio.
In this exhibition, which will remain open to the public until October 25th, renowned visual artist Lucila Santiago presents pieces that invite us to reflect on the importance of taking care of our planet.
Lucila’s intention is to send a clear message: recycling is giving another life and taking care of the planet. Her works are a testimony to the possibility of transforming discarded materials into objects of beauty and meaning.
In the author’s words, this work is one that has been forged over time, it is the desire to recycle and save papers to later make works, it has taken many years to make these pieces, and with this it shows that recycling is giving another ‘life’ to what is believed to no longer have, and thus inspire the new generations to take care of the planet.
“It is an exhibition where paper is of utmost importance, recycled paper from previous works of painting, monotypes, drawings that over time I have collected and saved, when I paint I always make a sketch that can be a collage and from there I started to make this exhibition, no longer as an aid, but as the work itself,” she said.
In recent years, human migration has been a topic that has captured the headlines, in which one sees the horror and how terrible it is for human beings to have to leave their countries to seek a better life. In light of this, Lucila created monotypes that reflect this cruelty, works that were selected to be exhibited in Graz, Austria, and which will also be in Mazatlán.
“The work is divided into two parts. One part is the monotypes that have to do with a series of immigrants, it is a series that was in Europe, and that I want to present here (Mazatlán), because it has not been presented, it deals with immigrants throughout the world. And there is another part of the collages that is what I just told you before, which are the leftovers in themselves, taking the paper as the main protagonist,” she said.
With a career spanning almost five decades, Lucila Santiago has exhibited in Mazatlán and a large part of the Mexican Republic in Mexico City, in Europe in countries such as Greece, Spain, Austria, and in some places in New York.
Starting on September 13th, the general public will be able to appreciate “Collages and Monotypes” at Galería Rubio from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. from Monday to Friday, while on Saturdays it will be from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Admission is free.
