Artist Statement: It´s about the joyful Mexican concept of dead, the ¨calaveras¨are in an eternal party, they are playing music New Orleans style like in a Brass Band, so mixing the celebration mood of Mexico and New Orleans, the colors are very mexican as well , like the ones used by Oaxaca painters, but in some way similar to the colors used on the New Orleans traditional houses. This is of course a sketch, a little limited to a more complete design, and since the size and form of the pianos could be different from the template, I can assure that the final result in the piano will be much better than this sketch.
FRANCISCO MAGALLAN - VISUAL ARTIST – (Painter, Printmaker and Illustrator) Born and raised in Mexico City, where he earned a BFA at the Faculty of Arts and Design and later a MFA with specialty in Printmaking at the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts. Since then, has participated in more than 90 group art shows national and international (Mexico, USA, France, Spain, Germany, Argentina and Cuba) and presented 12 solo art shows between Mexico and USA. For five years worked as a University Professor in Mexico City, teaching subjects such as Drawing, Illustration, Color Theory and Printmaking, and later founded his own Painting and Printmaking Studio “The Labyrinth” which runs for seven years and where he gave Drawing, Painting and Printmaking workshops and did photography and body painting projects. Some of his art pieces are part of institutional collections such as National Museum of Mexican Art (Chicago), International Museum of Art and Science (Mc Allen) and Mexican Cultural Institute (San Antonio) His work has been published in several Art Magazines like Artepoli (Barcelona, 2022) New Visionary (New York, 2023) and Modern Renaissance (Washington, 2023) He moved to New Orleans in 2013. And in 2023 he completed a 12 month Artist in Residence program at SALON Artist Studios sponsored by the Arts Council of New Orleans and recently had been accepted as a New Member of Antenna Collective as part of Antenna Gallery in New Orleans.
