Felipe Ehrenberg

Felipe Ehrenberg (27 June 1943, Tlacopac, Mexico City, 1943 – 15 May 2017) was a Mexican artist who worked in painting, drawing, printmaking and performance, among other mediums.

1968, a crucial year in global politics, is also fundamental in Mexican history: a week before the inauguration of the Olympic Games in Mexico City, the military suppressed a student demonstration; hundreds of participants died.

Continuing with his collective vocation, he joined Victor Munoz, Carlos Finck, and Jose Antonio Hernandez Amezcua, to found "Grupo Process Pentagono," a seminal movement which was later known as Movimiento Grupal.

In 1975 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship[2] for his investigation of the duality of Latin American culture, concentrating on "schizophrenic attitudes and schismatic in visual arts as a result of bilingualism."

In 1979 he founded H2O (Haltos 2 Ornos) Talleres de Comunicación, a collective exhibition of 25 art instructors who redefined the models of independent editing and held muralist workshops.

From the mid-1970s on his themes included death, as it manifests in Mexico, where the traditions of the original villages syncretize with Christianity brought by the Spanish colonizers.

In autumn of 1990, Ehrenberg was invited to be a resident artist of Nexus Press, Atlanta, where he published the Codex Areoscriptus Ehrenbergensis: A Visual Score of Iconotropisms, an anthology of his iconographic heritage of patterns.

In 1993 he presented "Preterito Imperfecto," an ambitious demonstration which includes a variety of genres, at Museo Carrillo Gil in Mexico City.