Presentation of the mural project «The Death of Cultures» by artist Baltazar Castellano Melo / @alefrausto @cultura_mx >>>

#SecretaríaDeCultura.- Currently, the Colegio de San Ildefonso houses different murals that emerged with the purpose of illustrating the Mexican people through images in public buildings. Thanks to this, this precinct has an important historical and artistic heritage on its walls, when artists such as Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, José Clemente Orozco, Fermín Revueltas, Jean Charlot, Fernando Leal and Ramón Alva captured transcendental images in the National Preparatory School.

San Ildefonso saw the emergence of the first masters of muralism, giving them the opportunity to climb a scaffold and capture the history that the Mexican Revolution needed to reflect in order to bring the people closer, a public art that would constantly remind the Mexican people of what their identity has been and will be.

Reflecting on this purpose that began in 1922, San Ildefonso integrates into the galleries of the exhibition The Spirit of the 22nd. A century of muralism the work: The death of cultures (black Mexico) by the Guerrero painter Baltazar Castellano Melo, an artistic project with the participation of Olga Manzano and José Luis Hernández Guzmán, artists and members of the Raíz de la Ceiba Collective.

The death of cultures (black México) will seek the identity vindication of the Afro-Mexican and black community, although it also tries to disentangle the concepts of Afro-Americans, Afro-descendants or Africans, all these concepts to describe (negro, salta pa’trás, cambujo, moreno, etc.) refer to people of African lineage and black or mulatto phenotype.

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