Moises Zabludovsky (Mexican, 1959-)
Bull Fight
Mixed Media Work on paper, watercolor; ink and pastel on paper
1979
Hand signed and dated.
Dimensions: Frame: 28.5 X 36.5. Image: 22.5 X 30
Abstract Modernist Mexican bullfighting image.
Born in Mexico City. His first training in art was in 1969 when he started working with Silvia Gonzalez and later on in the Arcai Atelier in Paris. At 18, he held his first exhibition at the Museo de Arte Moderno of Mexico City and he went on to display his work at the International Biennale of the Bronx Museum in New York City.
He grew up around the Mer Kup Gallery, run by his maternal grandmother, Merl de Kuper, where he presented his work in several group exhibitions and three solo shows (1979, 1981, and 1985). She was a champion of many important mexican modernist artists including
artists like Pedro friedeberg, Feliciano Bejar, Mathias Goeritz, Diego Rivera, Sebastián, and José Luis Cuevas.Moises Zabludovsky exhibited at the National Center for the Arts in 2011 and at the Museo El Eco of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He has exhibited paintings and sculptures at the Museum of Modern Art, the Jose Luis Cuevas Museum, Metropolitana in Mexico City.
He has successful shows at prominent art galleries like the Miro Gallery in Monterrey, Palacio de Bellas Artes and Museo Carrillo Gil in Mexico City. He also had some international shows in Florida and Latin America. In 1982 he was awarded a degree in graphic design from Parsons University. He has received numerous awards and exhibited widely since the early 1990's. He is known both for his oil painting as well as for his ceramic and bronze bullfighting sculpture.
In 1978, he received an honorable mention at the First Ibero-American Painting Biennial, where Carlos Merida and Rufino Tamayo were on the jury.
He was part of the Emerging Decade generation whose members participated in the exhibitions bearing that name at the Museo Universitario del Chopo in 1984 and 1994, the latter titled An Emerging Decade, a Decade Later . He also participated in the Salón dès Aztecs, a renowned alternative space for Mexican art
In the show Nuevas tendencias (New Trends) at the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City. That same year, he also exhibited at the International Biennial at the Bronx Museum in New York. He continued his studies at the Metropolitan University of Mexico City and simultaneously exhibited at various galleries and museums: the Mer-Kup Gallery and the Miró Gallery in Monterrey, Nuevo León; the Palacio de Bellas Artes; the Carrillo Gil Art Museum; and, outside the country, in Florida and at the
Traveling Young Art Exhibition organized by the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
as well as in art galleries in Mexico and the United States.
His father was the famous professor and architect Abraham Zabludovsky known for his brutalist architecture masterpieces among them the iconic Museo Rufino Tamayo.
His work is featured in two buildings designed by his father, Abraham Zabludovsky (1924-2003): the Byzantine mosaic mural 'The Applause' in the Guanajuato State Auditorium (1990) and the sculpture 'The Caravan' in the Poliforum, Auditorium and Convention Center in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas (1993).
Moises Zabludovsky has shown with Antonio Galvan Duque, Jose Sacal, Tomas Gomez Robledo, Renato Gonzalez, Fitzia, Luis Argudin, Luis Granda, Jose Antonio Gurtubay, Heriberto Mendez, Vlady, Omar Manueco, Jesus Urbieta, Miguel Angel Garrido, Carlos Nakatani, Miguel Castro Lenero, Jose Luis Serrano, Humberto Oramas, Gabriel Macotela, Nicolas Moreno, Luis Nishizawa, Gilberto Navarro, Fernando Castro Pacheco...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
MaterialsPaper, Pastel, Ink, Watercolor, Mixed Media
