Community Project
Arte y Arqueología – COBAO 25 de Río Grande
The community project of the Mexican artist Fritzia Irizar consisted of the reconstruction of government plans in Francisco Muñoz, through animation, made a series of clay sculpture workshops aimed at students of Cobao Plantel 25 of Rio Grande Oaxaca, creating a mutual exchange of experiences, knowledge, and collaborative work. This being the main thread of the project in order of achieving satisfactory results for both parties.
Before the session of the molding in mud, there were sessions of appreciation and analysis of the collection of archaeological pieces of the school, with which the artist could explain its importance and interest towards them. Subsequently, students were invited to make a series of drawings, sketches and approximations on objects that they re-imagined. The final stage of the activity; The mud workshop started with the drawings and sketches. Reinterpretations of these fragments, tepalcates, and other objects of pre-Columbian origin found and recovered from the area of the Costa Chica, Oaxaca.
It intended to emphasize the appreciation of mud as primary and elementary material for the culture of the region and the realization of these pieces. The final result leads to the appreciation and understanding of the symbolism represented by the archaeological objects of the region.
Oaxaca coast; your story, your homeand failed monuments. Examples of bad administration and the apparent corruption in their processes have led them to inoperative or have not been able to be concluded. Positioning them as an example of what is known as “white elephant.” These sculptures – a reminder of global impunity, will be reproduced during daylight hours, leaving the sea to destroy them when the tide rises, which is also a recreation of the fading of our work in the form of public resources.
The community project of the Mexican artist Fritzia Irizar consisted of the reconstruction of government plans in Francisco Muñoz, through animation, made a series of clay sculpture workshops aimed at students of Cobao Plantel 25 of Rio Grande Oaxaca, creating a mutual exchange of experiences, knowledge, and collaborative work. This being the main thread of the project in order of achieving satisfactory results for both parties.
Before the session of the molding in mud, there were sessions of appreciation and analysis of the collection of archaeological pieces of the school, with which the artist could explain its importance and interest towards them. Subsequently, students were invited to make a series of drawings, sketches and approximations on objects that they re-imagined. The final stage of the activity; The mud workshop started with the drawings and sketches. Reinterpretations of these fragments, tepalcates, and other objects of pre-Columbian origin found and recovered from the area of the Costa Chica, Oaxaca.
It intended to emphasize the appreciation of mud as primary and elementary material for the culture of the region and the realization of these pieces. The final result leads to the appreciation and understanding of the symbolism represented by the archaeological objects of the region.
Oaxaca coast; your story, your homeand failed monuments. Examples of bad administration and the apparent corruption in their processes have led them to inoperative or have not been able to be concluded. Positioning them as an example of what is known as “white elephant.” These sculptures – a reminder of global impunity, will be reproduced during daylight hours, leaving the sea to destroy them when the tide rises, which is also a recreation of the fading of our work in the form of public resources.
