With his work, Gonzalo Rocha creates a biography of José Guadalupe Posada

At the exhibition Posada: Life is worth nothing… And the sheet of paper sheds a penny, The caricaturist Gonzalo Rocha not only pays tribute to the legendary engraver and illustrator José Guadalupe Posada, but it is also an encounter with the icon of national graphics, whom he met at the age of 10, when he read a comic strip by The crouching ones, by Eduardo del Río laughs

“Posada was more than a printer: he knew all the ins and outs of how to make new technologies, his machines, and he is the only one who achieved a very different seal, because when he saw the other cartoonists of his time who did not separate themselves so much from a French or English newspaper, Posada, although it also takes that influence, its illustrations are something else.

When we see Catrina, we know that only a Mexican can do that. I pay tribute to that with silkscreensexplained the cartoonist of The Day at the opening of the exhibition, which took place in Cabaña 1 of the Los Pinos Cultural Complex.

He commented that in his graphic novel about José Guadalupe Posada, of which some serigraphs are included in the exhibition, he reflects on the three great images that Mexicans have: the eagle and the snake, the Virgin of Guadalupe and Catrina.

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On display is the famous drawing in which Posada sinks into a kiss with his Catrina, she in an elegant outfit, to which Rocha added a feather stole with a snake’s head.

They also appear in the exhibition rooms Devils against skulls, Villista Lover, Inn in his hell, Life is worthless, Neither dressed nor naked, The mare of the night, The pachanga, The kiss, On a walk to death, Compadres agaves y Posada and Vanegas Arroyo, among other works.

Fernando Gálvez de Aguinaga, curator of the exhibition, indicated that with the exhibition and the graphic novel, Gonzalo Rocha dialogues and creates a biography of this character that moves between the art of caricature, engraving and illustration.

In Gálvez’s opinion, In many of the engravings and lithographs outside the novel, Rocha combines Posada with Picasso, Goya and Chagall, and other giants of universal art. Rocha is part of the great history of Mexican caricature, which has given us many first-class artists..

The graphic novel Posada: Life is worth nothing… And the sheet of paper sheds a penny, which gives its title to the exhibition, will be presented on November 2 at 12 noon in cabin 1 of the Los Pinos Cultural Complex.