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Rudolfo
A. Anaya
Rudolfo A. Anaya is a Chicano leader and poet. About the installation
of the Southwest Pieta in Albuquerque, he write: "It
is appropriate that this sculpture will have our Albuquerque
mountains as its background. The mountains incorporate our
feelings as a community, and reconcile earth and sky. Both
art and the earth remind us of the rich cultures of the Rio
Grande Valley, and what each heritage has to lend to the other.
Southwest Pieta is a work of
art, and it makes its own statement about life. As we individually
react to it, we reinterpret our own esthetic sensibility and
enrich our lives. As it rekindles our feelings of love and
grief, it makes us more human" (1993, p. A-5)."
Gary Keller Cárdenas
Gary Keller Cárdenas is Regents Professor and Director
of Arizona State University's Hispanic Research Center where
he is also the director of the Bilibingual Press. He is an
avid collector of Chicana/o art and a strong supporter of
the Chicana/o art market. Keller Cárdenas has coordinating,
edited, and co-authored the first major encyclopedic volume
of prominent and emerging Chicana and Chicano artists in the
United States.
Click for more about the Bilingual
Press review.
Not only is the Southwest Pieta
print in his private collection, Gary Keller Cárdenas
worked with Luis Jiménez and Joe Segura to commission
an edition of 100 lithographs called Cholo and Van with Popo
and Ixta. In that print Jiménez once again features
the tragic Aztec legend of Popocatepetl and Ixtacihuatl, who
are said to have been transformed after death into two mountains
near Mexico City. This time, however, they appear in the form
of painted decoration on the side of a van driven by a tattooed
Chicano cholo, or tough guy.
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