Winter, in tribute to Sebastián Márquez

The piece El invierno, en homenaje a Sebastián Márquez (Winter, in tribute to Sebastián Márquez), which was presented by the artist in his exhibition Relación de una ausencia (Relation of an Absence) in 2003, was donated by the artist to the MUSA. The painting shows a young man carrying a naked child on his shoulders. A landscape of agave plants serves as background and provides a geographic reference that brings to mind an area of Jalisco’s tequila production. The rope that looks like a snake is interposed as a foreign element among the open books in an enigmatic environment woven by the recurring desire to shorten the distance between the past and present through painting.