Federico Silva

Federico Silva (born with Mexico City on September 16th 1923) is a painter and Mexican sculptor.

Autodidact, he became the assistant of David Alfaro Siqueiros, then started to paint his clean frescos since 1950. He created and directed the review 1935 , in which collaborated Diego Rivera, Leopoldo Méndez or Jose Revueltas.

In the Years 1960, it turned to the Sculpture, of which it became one of the Masters in Mexico with Pedro Coronel. It created in 1977 the space of sculpture of the autonomous National university of Mexico, where Manuel Felguérez passed. In Paris, he worked in the workshop of Carlos Cruz-Díez. He has a house-workshop with Tlaxcala, built in 1874 close to a tree ahuehuéte pluriséculaire.

He entered in 1991 to the Academy of Arts of Mexico, and he received in 1995 the national Price of Sciences and Arts.

In 2003 is created in an old convent of San Luis Potosí the museum Federico Silva, first museum of contemporary sculpture of Latin America, which shelters 68 of its sculptures, often monumental and geometrical. They are generally cut in the rock of Tlamimilolpa, sometimes out of concrete or iron.

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History of the Photo Mexican art of one of its sculptures

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