The only thing I love as much as printmaking is skateboarding. So imagine my delight on discovering the ‘Museo Nacional de Estampa’ downtown today.
The building, like most downtown in Mexico city is truly wonderful- typically wonky and threatening to collapse with the next imminent tremor.
Inside I discovered the work of Sergio Sanchez Santa Maria- though I confess I didnt have time to read the blurb and discover the dude’s background.
Specialising in woodcut, the guy appears to be pretty frickin prolific, lining many rooms over two floors with his delightful folk inspired skateboard crossover designs. Referencing traditional Mexican relio-cultural figures, the works have a beautiful anachronism, or whatever the cultural equivalent of that is, his spirits and cactuses the backdrop for kickflips and melacholy grabs.
If you’re not lucky enough to be in this big beautiful dirty city, look him up online.
