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Herve Di Rosa: Mexico

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This is an extremely interesting and colorful book with select works of the artist Herve di Rosa. Rosa, who splits his residence between France and Mexico displays in this book his unique paintings inspired by Mexican culture and his travels around the world to the different continents. The text is written in three languages on one page, Spanish, French and English. Whenever there is text, it is in three different colors, one for each language. This makes for colorful reading to go along with the smash of colorful imagery of landscapes and objects splaterred thoughout this book. Di Rosa subjects are everyday images found in Mexico and world popular culture. Everything from a pinata party to retablos, from African villages to war protest posters is exhibited and fair game for the Di Rosas palette. His pop art is surreal and unusual as he infuses comic book type imagery with strange dimensions, utilizing anything such as grid street maps or playing cards as a background for his subject. The result is very unique and rather mind blowing art. There are tremendous details in the colorful works of Di Rosa. It is said that he paints as he does because it comes "from the deepest regions of a soul bewitched by the colors and forms to which it always abandons itself in the continous, lucid delirium of an artist who has never paid any tribute to any "ism"." His art is Andy Warholesque through the eyes of a possessed shaman. At the end of the book there is an explantion and small pictures of the original art pieces with the dimensions and media used. There is also a list of the many exhibitions he has participated in, begining in 1959 through 2002 and the prizes he has won in different competitions. If you like the art of Herve Di Rosa than this would be a good book for your art book collection. Recommended for pop art lovers and collectors of art books.