Nahum B. Zenil
Mexican · b. 1947 · Painter, Draughtsman
Nahum B. Zenil is a Mexican artist who often uses his own self-portrait as the principal model for a cultural critical interpretation of Mexico, especially concerning… (Wikipedia)
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Torsos desnudosMorton Subastas · MX$24,000≈ $1,416≈ £1,128≈ €1,318Sign up to see
La CasaBonhams · $1,211≈ £971≈ €1,105Sign up to see
CrepúsculoMorton Subastas · MX$4,500≈ $270≈ £212≈ €249Sign up to see
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Nahum B. Zenil is a Mexican artist who often uses his own self-portrait as the principal model for a cultural critical interpretation of Mexico, especially concerning homosexuality and mestization. Zenil was born in 1947 in the state of Veracruz. In 1959, he enrolled at the Escuela Nacional de Maestros in Mexico City, from which he graduated in 1964. It was during this period in which Zenil became interested in painting. He later entered the Escuela Nacional de Pintura y Escultura in Mexico City in 1968. He is also one of the founding members of the Semana Cultural Gay, which occurs yearly at the Museo Universitario del Chopo. His art is often compared to that of Frida Kahlo, in which the self becomes the principal object of their paintings letting the viewer discover the artists as individuals as well as the broader social and cultural contexts in which they lived through the medium of self-portraiture.
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Also known as Nahúm B. Zenil, Nahum Bernabe Zenil
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