Guadalajara (Mexico), Aug 18 (EFE).- The tattoo makes its way as one of the artistic expressions in an exhibition at the Museum of Arts (MUSA) in the Mexican city of Guadalajara, which tries to promote this ancient technique that use the skin as a canvas.
Florencia Mayagoitia Veloz, curator of the exhibition, told EFE this Friday that, for the first time, this contemporary art venue dedicates a space to tattoo professionals to demonstrate that this activity can be considered an art.
“We would say that tattooing is an art because it has the same as any other art, you have to learn about the tools, understand the color, the materials and the canvas to really create a work, you have to be creative and find your style, what really changes is the canvas,” he said in an interview.
The exhibition is part of the “Artist in Residence” program, in which a dozen tattoo professionals from three studios in Guadalajara participated, showing the public the process for capturing images on the skin, as well as holding workshops to encourage them to capture their own designs.
“Mapping the skin. History, practices and symbolism of tattooing” is made up of pieces of object art, tattoo machines, graphic reproductions, screen prints and videos, as well as tattoo drawings made during the artist residency.
The exhibition covers the history of tattooing in the world through photographs that narrate how different cultures transformed the technique of decorating or drawing on the skin in accordance with their beliefs.
It also addresses contemporary history in which it shows the techniques and processes carried out today to create small tattoos, such as a letter, up to images that can cover the entire body, which preserve the proportions and adapt to the characteristics and mobility of each person. body part.
“We are not the first museum to talk about this, it is a tradition, so it has an anthropological sense, a historical and psychological sense, this was the route we decided to take, in addition to practical experience, to see what happens, how it is tattooed, who are the ones who tattoo”, assured the curator.
The exhibition will be open from August 18 to October 8, 2023 at the MUSA. EFE
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