Art as Activism: Taller de Gráfica Popular

The Baker Museum - Naples

The Baker Museum presents an exhibition that gathers more than 140 prints of the complete portfolio of Taller de Gráfica Popular, 450 Años de lucha: homenaje al pueblo mexicano. Displayed in Naples for the first time, these works are part of the museum’s permanent collection.

Founded in 1937 in Mexico City by artists Leopoldo Méndez, Pablo O’Higgins and Luis Arenal, the Taller de Gráfica Popular (People’s Graphic Workshop, TGP) became a base of political activity that attracted both national and foreign collaborators. At the core of the Taller’s political agenda and critical discourse were the causes of marginalized or oppressed sectors of society, especially Mexican workers and peasants. Concerned also with contemporary politics on a global scale, the Taller denounced the Spanish Civil War and fascism. Its aesthetic was informed by the Mexican printmaking tradition, particularly the legacies of José Guadalupe Posada and Manuel Manilla, as well as by the Soviet avant-garde visual rhetoric. Many important artists, such as Alfredo Zalce, Mariana Yampolski, Jesús Alvarez Amaya, Raúl Anguiano, Angel Bracho, Arturo García Bustos and David Alfaro Siqueiros produced prints at the Taller.

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The Taller de Gráfica Popular still has a headquarters in Mexico City that keeps the archives of this institution, documents, prints, plates and the printing press that Leopoldo Méndez bought for the workshop, but it lacks the funds to preserve and promote this legacy.

“Art as Activism” also includes paintings and drawings by Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Rufino Tamayo, among other famous artists. To establish the TGP’s historical context, the exhibition presents a selection of books and artifacts, such as a small printing press and other period materials. The exhibition is on view through July 6, 2014.