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Infinitas Gracias is the first collection of the work of Alfredo Vilchis Roque, one of Mexico's most famous contemporary painters, and his sons. In the tradition of Catholic votives, each painting tells a miraculous tale and gives thanks to the intervening saint. Ablaze with intense color hearkening back to the natural pigment dyes of ancient Mexico, these works portray the kaleidoscope of issues that constitute modern urban existence. With over 200 paintings, from circus adventures to household accidents to adultery, drugs, and prostitution, Infinitas Gracias weaves together a bizarre tapestry of stories, some disturbing, some comical -- all unerringly wrought and profoundly touching.

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Alfredo Vilchis Roque is a self-taught artist whose works are internationally collected and frequently exhibited, including a recent show at the Mexico City Museum.

Pierre Schwartz is a photographer and teacher who has collaborated on many books on contemporary art and architecture.

Victoire and Herve Di Rosa live in Miami, where Victoire is Cultural Attache at the French Consulate in Miami and Herve is a contemporary French painter and sculptor known for his cutting edge, multimedia works.
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Collecting the intensely moving work of a single Mexico City studio, that of retablo master Roque and his sons, this book offers a deep introduction to a vital art form. Retablo, as Roque interprets it, dramatizes in a commissioned work a life-changing incident in which the hand of a saint guided events, and offers a prayer of thanks, often painted at the bottom, in the client's own words. Roque's patrons are often living on the fringes of society and offer gratitude for events such as being saved from rape in an alley while working as a prostitute, for abandoning one's child and recovering it "in time before he was eaten by dogs," and for not dying when illegally crossing the desert between Mexico and the United States. The prayers have a concise honesty that is irresistible, and Roque matches it with colorful figuration that doesn't waste a stroke, yet has richly realized settings—from streets to fields, cantinas to bedrooms and churches—and conveys a powerful sense of human need and conflict. Divided into short sections ("Parenthood," "Relationships," "Emigration," "Urban Violence" "Illness" and 16 others) that cover more than 30 years of work, the retablos provide a mosaic of Mexico City life. Particularly moving is the "Homosexuality" section, which records complex relationships and negotiations within a largely Catholic society. This varied and beautiful book, with its nearly 200 lushly printed color reproductions, is less "outsider" art than art that is central to the way people live and love.
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  • PublisherEditions Du Seuil
  • Publication date2004
  • ISBN 10 2020618613
  • ISBN 13 9782020618618
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages256
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