For the Living Museum of Muralism, recently opened in the building of the Ministry of Public Education (SEP), the painter Antonio Ortiz Loud was commissioned to do the work The flowers are born in silencewhich measures 2.40 by 4 meters and is already part of the facility’s permanent collection.
This transportable mural offers an unusual aesthetic treatment that refers to the social movements in Chihuahua that gave rise to the Popular Guerrilla Group and the assault on the Madera Barracks in 1965. This work contains dozens of QR codes through which the visitor can access multiple articles and books on peasant struggles in Chihuahua in the 50s and 60s of the last century. Also, documentaries and films about the assault on the Madera Barracks and the peasant struggles, as well as articles, theses, writings, books and films about the guerrilla in Mexico.
The flowers are born in silence It is a recognition of the struggles undertaken by the different Mexican guerrilla groups and is also a tribute to those who have been part of these rebel groups.
Divided into four sections, the first is dedicated to philosophers and social fighters who, in addition to being fundamental pillars of leftist thought and struggles, were essential in the processes of emergence of guerrilla groups in Mexico, such as Ernesto That Guevara.
A second section lists most of the guerrillas that have existed in the country, represented as flowers. In the Mayan cosmogony, heroes, heroines and special people are born from flowers.
In a third section, in addition to the figures and ideologies of Emiliano Zapata, Ricardo Flores Magón and Pablo González Casanova, the antecedents of the struggles for land in Chihuahua in the 50s and 60s are exposed along with some of its peasant leaders such as Salomón Gaytán, Álvaro Ríos, Saúl Chacón, Arturo Gámiz, Pablo Gómez and Judith Reyes.
A specter of death, in the last section, personifies the trilogy formed by rulers, landowners (and businessmen) and the Army
which, according to the artist, Even today it is dedicated to plundering resources and sowing all possible injustice in indigenous and peasant communities.
. Death carries a knife next to which is an image made up of portraits with the gaze of Adolfo López Mateos, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Luis Echeverría and José López Portillo; has as its title The murderous presidents.
The artists Deniss Yunuen, Óscar Ratto, Anayeli Contreras, Alfredo López Casanova, Patricia Soriano, Adriana Camacho and Marcos Miranda participated in the mural.
The flowers are born in silence It is located in the Carlos Mérida room of the Living Museum of Muralism of the SEP, Republic of Argentina 28, Historical Center. It will be on display for three months.