Brincando fronteras: creaciones locales mexicanas y globalización

From the perspective of visual anthropology and art history, Brincando fronteras: creaciones locales mexicanas y globalización (Bridging Borders: Local Mexican Creations and Globalization) presents fifteen studies on contemporary Mexican art, developed around a reality that has continuously captured the attention of the humanities over the last twenty years: the phenomenon of globalization. Characterized by the opening of markets, the accelerated circulation of beings and objects, and the emergence of new technologies and materials, globalization has had a decisive impact on almost all spheres of artistic creation, including not only painting, performance, and video art, but also Huichol music, feather art, and collective creations such as lacquer art in Olinalá, the clothing of the tiger men in Guerrero, and Mixtec painting in Oaxaca. Brincando fronteras opens a critical space in which the works of artists such as Betsabé Romero, César Martínez, Guillermo Gómez Peña, Pablo Vargas Lugo, and Marion C. Martínez, among others, are addressed simultaneously with the creations of artists such as Nicolás de Jesús, Juan Carlos Ortiz, Ariosto Otero, and Eugenio Méndez Nava, who have generally been excluded from the artistic mainstream because they are associated with crafts, folk art, or indigenous art. We thus offer a heterogeneous panorama of contemporary art in Mexico at the beginning of the 21st century.