Huichol People and Art

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HUICHOL ART


The Huichol art is developed in an artisanal way with two techniques: beaded and yarn painting. Our pieces come from weeks to months of work and are the result of the artistic collaboration with the most gifted Huichol families from the diverse communities of the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico, those who learn from their childhood these representative techniques of their culture. Pieces such as the skulls of cattle are product of some Huichol traditional celebration and it is possible thanks to the pressing of more than 30 thousand beads, one by one by the hands of the Huichol artists. Each piece has embodied the elements on the worldview of these artists in a different way, what makes them be works of art unique and unrepeatable. Each artist has a way of expressing their feel, their colors, their forms and visions, since the elements that have been translating for centuries by its spiritual importance, as the blue deer, the corn, the eagle and the peyote, all descended from their Sun God “Tau�; Pop up to symbology of the contemporary Huichol artists with a conceptual meaning, same as it has emerged from the Huichol culture and its shamanic traditions. When someone has a Huichol piece, is leading to your home or collection a record of the history of life in the universe according to the Wixarika –Huichol wisdom, shared vision of centuries of knowledge that travel through the veins of a people. It is also helping through your purchase to the preservation of the people and culture.



















Contact: Alexa Gamboa Philipson alegamph@gmail.com 4243860065 Venice Beach, CA


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