Posdata #3 (Postscript #3)

Felguérez belongs to a generation of Mexican artists who sought to break free from the creative stagnation brought by the institutionalization of the Mural tradition and its nationalist rhetoric. His work is aligned with international artistic movements that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s, seen in early explorations of the painterly, informel textures and the gestural energy of abstract expressionism. Innovation and experimentation have been a constant in his practice, which encompasses sculpture and large-scale works that explore infinite combinations of multiple and juxtaposed planes. Posdata #3, a mid-career serigraph, incorporates elements from Felguérez’s earlier phases within his post-1975 digital art. Using computer systems, he created dynamic and complex compositions that play with the contrasting visual effects of digital technologies and material processes. In this composition, a three-dimensional shape resembling a glass window with a brown wing or shade encloses both foreground and background. Rectangular and square flat fields of color are juxtaposed against curved forms with a textural pattern reminiscent of painting splatters, creating a visual dynamic in which curves and straight lines, flatness and texture, depth and surface coexist harmoniously.

Text credit: Produced in collaboration with the University of Maryland Department of Art History & Archaeology and Patricia Ortega-Miranda