Ipanema

The catalogue, corresponding to the eponymous exhibition and organized n 2019 by El Colegio Nacional and prepared by the painter, graphic artist, editor, and visual artist Vicente Rojo (b. Barcelona, Spain 1932, lives and works in Mexico since 1949 - d. 2020) i and which begins its roaming in Veracruz, as part of the commemoration of the 80 years of Spanish exile in Mexico. The pieces that make up the exhibition symbolically recreate the journey of Francisco Rojo Lluch, father of Vicente Rojo, from Bordeaux to Veracruz in the mid-1939. For its elaboration, Rojo recovered fragments of photographs and other historical documents, including the diary aboard the steamer Ipanema. Contains a presentation by Adolfo Martínez Palomo, as well as texts by Javier Garciadiego, Marco Barrera Bassols and Amanda de la Garza, which approach Spanish exile and Rojo's work from different perspectives.