Been invited to participate in the 1st Chapingo Biennial - Texcoco University, Mexico City, which will take place from the 7th until the 19th Nov 2008.

It's a great honour and will attend in person with the painting "Querida Frida, Herida". Been for years a devoted admirer of her art and character, so to be able to show this triptych at the place where her husband Diego Rivera painted murals couldn't seem to me more appropriate.

The theme of the Biennial is "Art With Its Root in the Earth". Who better than Frida understood what this is? She loved her "Earth" Country and nature, so am plenty at ease with the "inspirator" and the theme...

Will post updates on the painting until finished, for the time being you can see 2 movies made at the beginning spoken in a mixture of English and Spanish. They are on YouTube, so much faster. Will upload others soon...
The making of: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4

Update - am delighted, Coldplay edited a cd named "Viva la Vida". If you know a bit about Frida, this is the title of one of the movies made about her...

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Art before 2003: "http://www.mariajoao.net"

Video clip "Entre Nós" TV show

(Site under reconstruction)

"F(e)rida - Feeling Wonderfull"

Acrylic, collage, spray on canvas

2004 - 80x80cm