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Ancla 2

THE SURNAME OF THE FACE

1980
1980

When I started this series, the de facto government was in sharp decline and the citizens showed their anger in the streets and started to get organized to recover democratic values with public elections. The faces that I chose to draw were those of the people photographed in newspaper articles of that time. I did so with the aim of giving them a name and a surname that would highlight the features which would describe them best. The inaction of their bodies and the special features of their faces express what I am trying to say.

Back then, I was working as an art student in a mental hospital. I tried to help some patients deal with their problems through painting and drawing and in those beings as well as in the said faces that I drew, I saw the same physical and emotional struggle of those who longed for a better life.

MIGUEL IDO. Pen and ink on paper. 16x25cm.1982.
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