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Sol y Tierra
The sun as a molten disc over a cactus-strewn ground, with a reclining blue figure at the centre.
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Los Angeles · México · 1970 —
William Bejarano
Signs his work Guillermo Bejarano
Art between two worlds.
Painter · Photographer · Muralist · Chicano artist · Archivist of a movement
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Concepto Cero
An early hard-edge composition: a standing figure rendered in burnt sienna and green against a field of red earth.
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The Bombing of Faiths
Two birds — one red, one black — collide above a green thicket.
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Art has shown me that it is possible to interpret my artworks imaginatively and through my own vision.
For more than five decades William Bejarano has painted between Los Angeles and México — and kept the posters, letters, magazines and photographs that the Chicano art movement left behind.
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1977
Centro de Arte Público
An artists’ collective in Highland Park, Los Angeles, from 1977 to 1979. Carlos Almaraz, Barbara Carrasco, Richard Duardo, Judithe Hernández, Leo Limón, John Valadez, Frank Romero — and Bejarano, who kept the posters, the magazines and the photographs.
México ↔ Los Angeles
Los AngelesHighland Park, East Los Angeles, Pacoima, Northridge. Where the murals, the centres and the magazine were.East Los AngelesMéchicano Art Center, Self-Help Graphics, the Doctors Hospital mural, Floral Drive.The Sonoran DesertThe mining mountains and silver light that run through four decades of the paintings.Baja California SurTodos Santos, Bahía Concepción, Mulegé, San José del Cabo — most of the photographs.Ajijic, JaliscoLake Chapala. The second studio, and La Galería Del Lago.Ciudad de MéxicoWhere he studied muralism in 1975, and where the Taller de Gráfica Popular prints came from.
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Woman by the Stream — Las Mujeres De La Cueva
The painting that Octavio Romano, publisher of Quinto Sol, answered with a poem. Romano's text is reproduced in full alongside the work.
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100 archive objects, 108 works catalogued.