28 May 2025
Ángel Zárraga: A Mexican Painter in Paris
Women Through the Artist's Eyes
Paris, France
The École des modernités
Zárraga was a Mexican painter who lived in Europe, specially in Paris, during the first half of the 20th century. The works included exemplify the artist's vision of women, highlighting the importance of various female roles, above all since the quite early years of the last century. They correspond to three distinct periods in his artistic output and three very specific feminine types.
Image : Ángel Zárraga, Le femme et le Pantin, 1909
Nadia Ugalde Gómez
Art historian and curator of modern Mexican art with a four-decade career at the National Institute of Fine Arts. Curator of a large number of Mexican art exhibitions -specially Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and their contemporaries- for museums and galleries in Mexico, South America (Ecuador, Uruguay, Chile, Argentina), Puerto Rico and Spain. Some of my publications include: Arnold Belkin, the image as metaphor (1999), Diego Rivera, the aesthetics of a dream (2002), Anita Brenner, vision of an era (2007), Diego Rivera, witness and protagonist of his time (2007). My recent research has focused on government cultural policies, the development of a cultural chronology of the 1940s and 1950s and recently on suicidal artists.
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