Alexis Manchia and Shin-Yuu Benítez inaugurated exhibitions at the UDLAP art Gallery

La Luz de la Nevera, an art gallery located at the University of the Americas Puebla (UDLAP), hosted Alexis Manchia’s solo exhibition “Always black and white in my notebook” and Shin-Yuu Benítez’s immersive experience titled “The World from minotaur going to butterfly.”

The first work exhibited at the LDLN was the individual exhibition “always black and white in my notebook” by Alexis Manchia, a sixth semester Plastic Arts student at UDLAP. This exhibition focused on three important aspects: first, on the comics that the artist has enjoyed since childhood; Secondly, promotional ones such as funky punky; and the third aspect was about the fluidity of the lines of the American cinema cartoons of the 1930s.

Uniting all these elements, Alexis presented six pieces in his exhibition, including some sculptures called “art toys”, a video that he manipulated to create a different animation, and a mural inspired by one of his favorite songs. All this, added to the intervention that she carried out throughout the gallery, made viewers feel like they were inside a comic strip.

As the second exhibition of the month, “The world of a minotaur going to a butterfly” by Shin-Yuu Benítez Palmeros, an eighth semester Plastic Arts student, was recently inaugurated at the LDLN. This exhibition is an immersive installation that stands out for being composed of three parts: two murals with butterfly and minotaur icons; an engraving made with sugar and etching technique; and a cocoon placed in the center of the gallery. “As a 22-year-old Mexican artist, I am trying to build an identity through my pieces,” Shin-Yuu explained.

In the UDLAP Art Chapel, the 1st Puebla sculptor of the 20th century

The 2nd floor of the Art Chapel (UDLAP), hosts from last Saturday, March 23 and until Sunday, June 9, the individual exhibition titled Carmen Wenzel: sculpture, which exhibits the work of the first Puebla woman sculptor of the last century, Carmen López Blumenkron de Wenzel, better known as Carmen Wenzel.

During the inauguration of the first exhibition of the Spring 2024 season, Mtra. Marie France Desdier Fuentes, director of Cultural Spaces and Artistic Heritage at UDLAP, shared her enthusiasm for starting this great exhibition: “Through this exhibition you will see the production that Carmen Wenzel had, made with the courage to produce works with metals that “They were involved with public space, something that few artists do.”

Carmen Wenzel: sculpture, It is a tour of medium and small format sculptures, made of bronze, aluminum and copper sheet, as well as jewelry, documents and photographs, about the creative processes and sculptural production of the artist. This tour ranges from her first sculpture: “The Spike”, to the most monumental ones represented in graphic prints placed on the walls of the room. Her work plastically portrays the 70s, a time of many changes.