El buen ladrón P. Paquito

Gabriel de la Mora2011

Details

Title: El buen ladrón P. Paquito
Creator: Gabriel de la Mora
Creator Lifespan: 1968
Creator Nationality: Mexican
Creator Gender: Male
Creator Birth Place: Mexico
Date Created: 2011
Title translation: The Good Thief, P. Paquito
Physical Dimensions: w10.06 x h8.125 in
About the Work: Gabriel de la Mora works in a variety of media and formats, ranging from drawings and photographs to sculptures, ready-mades, and elements including human hair, alphabet soup, and burned paper. A key aspect to his work is the process of creation through the act of destruction. El buen ladrón, P. Paquito, 2011, belongs to a series of intervened photographs of the film archives of the “Golden Era” of Mexican cinema, in this case of a photo-poster of the moralizing drama El buen ladrón (Padre Paquito), from 1956, where a young priest is challenged by different characters from the criminal world. In this photograph, De la Mora tears small pieces of the photograph, leaving the debris of the paper inside the frame, until the viewer can only identify a pair of holding hands and part of the movie title at the bottom. De la Mora experiments with materials and techniques to explore more radical ways of thinking about and producing drawings, paintings and sculptures. He expands their limits while erasing the frontiers between these mediums.
Type: Photograph
Rights: Gift of the artist and Galería OMR, Mexico City
External Link: Museum of Latin American Art
Medium: Scraped 20th Century photograph

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