The Guadalajara Reporter

Cabañas shows work of Fernando Garcia Ponce

An exhibition commemorating 25 years since the death of Mexican artist Fernando Garcia Ponce opens at the Instituto Cultural Cabañas on Friday, May 31.

The show features 65 of his works, and covers  three key periods in his life, illustrating his transformation from figurative art, portraiture and landscapes to Cubism and abstraction.

Born in Merida in 1933,  García Ponce – along with the likes of Manuel Felguerez, Lilia Carrillo and Vicente Rojo – was part of a generation of artists that rebelled against the ideological, representational art favored by Mexico’s famous muralists such as Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco.