"The
new muralism of Felguerez broke with both the tradition of the
Mexican School as well as with his own early work. His early productions
are situated within the realm of informalism and tachism, the
aesthetic tendencies predominant during his youth. Yet even during
this period, and experienced eye could have discovered the secret
geometry lying behind the non-figurative informalism of the pictures.
Rather than causing destruction, abstract impressionism recovered
the underlying rational structure. It is not surprising that an
invisible order sustained these passionate constructions and destructions.
Above all, Felguerez is a constructivist sculptor. His artistic
preocupations are closer to those of Zadkine or Gabó than
to those of Pollock or De Kooning.."
Octavio
Paz
"El
Espacio Múltiple". Catalogue from the exhibition "El
Espacio Múltiple", Museum of Modern Art, INBA, Mexico,
December 1973 - February 1974.
"I am sure that
it is not euphoric painting, nor is it designed to convey jubilation
or ease. Nothing of the sort. Anyone seeing these pictures feels
as though he has been placed to meditate in the center of a white
picture, with just one window open to the sky. It is a picture
where the merry countryside of the most recent work of Felguerez
is present. it is a picture in wich one can hear the stream mentioned
by Fray Luis in "Vida Retirada". It must be said that
this is an "inward" painting, not only for the painter,
but also for each one of us. This is rather like saying something
terrible: whoever lacks this "inwardness" is doomed
to remain in the doorway, logically complaining because others
are enjoying the party. Anyone overflowing with inner life and
deriving pleasure from solitude, can slowly and silently sample
these big, pale, pictures as though they were a deep glass of
cold water."
Damián
Bayón.
"El
arte matinal". México, La letra y la imagen.
Supplement of El Universal, Mexico, April 6, 1980.
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