![]() The containers are usually discarded haphazardly on the streets when they are emptied of their useful (salable) contents, and are left flattened, torn, and abandoned on the city’s streets and sidewalks. It is common in Mexican urban centers to see impoverished, principally indigenous children and women selling chewing gum or candy out of such containers to pedestrians, people on buses, motorists stopped at traffic lights, and those sitting in parks, cafés or restaurants. These works share the common element of having been painted on “found cardboard” supports, specifically on the rectangular bottom panels of commercially made cardboard cartons that were used as “empaques” for chewing gum, each container holding approximately a couple dozen smaller packets. In some ways, the notion of framing itself is a basic element in the conception of this work and others in the abovementioned series or parallel to it. "Quintaesencia callejera" is one of several pieces made in parallel with –but not directly as a part of– a series titled “De visión y desecho”. It is technically a poliptych, though all five elements are fixed together permanently on the matboard backing used for the float. The acrylic painting is realized on a support of found cardboard. Because the piece has some three-dimensionality, the frame has enough space behind the glass to keep it sufficiently elevated from the “upright” edges of the found cardboard support elements, which are placed adjacent to one another with their adjoining border edges protruding vertically from the horizontal painted surface. ![]() It is framed behind glass in a box-style ash frame, appropriately wired and ready to hang. Acrylic on found cardboard 17.5 x 32 x 3.5 in., framed (artwork measures approximately 7.5 x 22.5) The work is framed, in mat-float, with a cloth-covered mat over a black backing, on which the painting supports are floated. ![]()
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