| Mexico City, 26 Feb 1934 – Mexican-born draughtsman, printmaker and painter. Cuevas began showing early artistic talent and briefly attended the Escuela Nacional de Pintura y Escultura ‘La Esmeralda’ in Mexico City. He later studied graphic arts at the Institución de Enseñanza Universitaria in Mexico City. During his early years with the GalerÃa Prisse in Mexico City he joined a group of young artists, including Alberto Gironella, Enrique Echeverriá, Pedro Coronel, Manuel Felguérez and Francisco Icaza . This politically-active group became opposed to the socialist artists favoured by the Government and rebelled against the official mural art and became active in defining the contemporary artistic panorama of Mexico. In 1953 he had his first exhibition at the GalerÃa Prisse; and the following year exhibited at the Pan American Union, Washington, DC. He was subsequently invited to work in various workshops worldwide, including the Tamarind Workshop in Los Angeles, CA, and Poligrafa in Barcelona in 1981. While in Mexico, he worked at the Taller Kyron, among others. His most characteristic works portray drawings of misshapen creatures and misery in the contemporary world. |
