Surrealism leads the way to ASFG 2013 Art Fest

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Surrealism leads the way to ASFG 2013 Art Fest
September 25, 2013 By sofiabenitezv
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Art Fest is less than two months away and ASFG is already in the process of working towards carrying out the
acclaimed cultural and artistic event. For the third consecutive year, the festival will welcome a guest artist, in this
edition, the Jalisco born painter and sculptor Alejandro Colunga. Not only will Art Fest 2013 be a special
edition due to its 25th anniversary, but the art departments from K-12 are more involved than ever before. Ms.
Stacy Ohrt-Billingslea, the new high school Drama teacher is staging a performance that will involve people from
all grade levels and pay tribute to Colunga’s work. The high school honors and AP art students will be displaying
their work in the state of the art gallery owned by Alvaro Aceves, in Victoriano Salado Alvarez street, as well as
putting their art up alongside world class characters at the ASFG event. Juani Alarcon, high school freshman,
directed, produced and shot the promo for the twenty fifth anniversary edition of ArtFest in Guadalajara.
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Furthermore, there has been a translation from Spanish of an excerpt of the guest artist’s biography written by
Edward J. Sullivan. It follows.
Alejandro Colunga, born in Guadalajara, Jalisco December 11, 1948, is an artist known for his paintings and
sculptures. He studied architecture and delved into other disciplines such as music, languages and anthropology.
His work is characterized by an intense vision and passionate expression, as well as an attraction towards the
unexplainable, uncommon situations and what we usually consider to be fantasy. This becomes evident when
witnessing his continuous fascination with the transformation of the inanimate to animate, in addition to a
corrosive humor, iconographic ease, and the intertwining of the aesthetic languages revealed by his works. His
paintings as well as his sculptures place him in the same setting of other neo expressionist contemporaries such as
Francis Bacon and Jacobo Borges. Colunga’s work has been exhibited in Europe, Asia and America.
His produced work combines a markedly personal iconography influenced by pre columbian and Spanish
baroque sources on one hand and popular Mexican culture on the other (perhaps in a greater degree than any
other artist since Frida Kahlo herself.) Colunga succeeds in capturing the tragicomic essence of a country thought
by Breton to be: “the quintessential Surrealist setting.”
Translated excerpts of the original text by Edward J. Sullivan
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