Overview
- Mexico’s Culture Ministry and the national arts institute reported his death at his Tepoztlán home in the early hours of Wednesday at age 92.
- His longtime companion, Rosa Velasco, said he deteriorated after a fall about three weeks earlier and died without pain.
- A home wake in Tepoztlán is planned and his remains will be cremated, with the final disposition yet to be decided.
- Identified with the Generación de la Ruptura, he worked across painting, printmaking and scenography, taught for more than four decades, and presented over 120 solo and about 200 group exhibitions.
- He studied under Johannes Itten in Zürich, settled in Mexico in 1957, became a Mexican citizen in 1980, and earned the Medalla Bellas Artes in 2014, with a public homage held in Cuernavaca on January 29.