Benjamin Dominguez - Artist Info

About Benjamin Dominguez

  • Biography from Morton Subastas

    Benjamin Dominguez was born in Jimenez, Chihuahua in 1942. Benjamín Domínguez arrived in Mexico City at age 20 to study at the San Carlos Academy. One of his teachers was Luis Nishizawa, from whom Dominguez learned the use of various techniques and materials. At the end of school, Dominguez entered the museography team of the Viceroyalty Museum in Tepotzotlán, where he had the opportunity work with colonial artworks, ivories, stews and oriental porcelains. This influence helped define his personal style, which was reflected in crowned nuns and cupboards. "I grew up with the children of the gypsies and I always had the closeness to the divinatory arts that characterized them. Palmistry is one of the recurring themes in my work [...] I keep always bordering the limits of art, from all its values: austerity, manifestation, joy and fastiality. " Benjamín Domínguez. The artist passed away in Ciudad ded Mexico in 2016.

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