Francisco Toledo, who shook up the 1960s Mexican art scene with his fresh approa...
MEXICO CITY - Francisco Toledo, who shook up the 1960s Mexican art scene with his fresh approach to painting, sculpting, printing, tapestry weaving and preserving the cultural heritage that inspired him, has died.
With his messy hair, scruffy clothes and penchant for huaraches, or leather sandals, Toledo was a fierce defender of the culture of his home state, Oaxaca, the heartland of the indigenous Zapotec people and where he died on Thursday at 79. “If you speak an indigenous language because you belong to a community, you be respected as a community, they should not say you are inferior because you have darker skin or you are superior because you are white,” Toledo said in an interview with Reuters, speaking of Mexico’s inequalities.
He went on to work and exhibit in the 1960s in Paris, where he was taken under the wing of Mexican modern master Rufino Tamayo, a fellow Oaxacan with Zapotec roots. Auction house Christie’s said on its website that it sold one of Toledo’s pieces, created in 1975 and titled “Tortuga poniendo huevos,” Spanish for “Turtle laying eggs,” for just over $1 million in 2018.
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