Alfredo Ramos Martínez at La Biennale Arte 2024

Alfredo Ramos Martínez, often considered the “father of modern Mexican art”, was a prolific painter, muralist, and educator who played a key role in the reconfiguration of art schools and Mexican modernism during the crisis of the Revolution (1910). Ramos Martínez’s Mancacoyota(1930) renders the idea of a proud Indigenous woman, full of a nobility that stems from her native roots. With an inquisitive gaze, the woman – reluctant, serene, and suspicious at the same time – observes us with a monumental wall of cactus as a background.