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The fear has passed! The anxieties, the nervousness, the uncertainties, are already left behind. The initial issue of San Miguel Art magazine was a total success and the editorial team is happy for that. The achievements in its distribution were remarkable taking into account that it was the magazine›s first presence in social networks. Even so, the figures that were growing day by day showed the interest in our content.

Thanks to the possibilities of connection offered by Facebook, we were able to take the magazine to the people of our interest, that is: artists painters, photographers, sculptors, art lovers in all North America, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Spain and other European countries.

Thanks to many people who favored us with the likes and shares that went on happening day by day until reaching very satisfactory figures.

We added in this issue the Guest artist section with the presence of the maestro Carlos TerrĂŠs, sculptor and painter of world fame which makes us proud of having him.

Thanks again to our readers from all over the world and thanks to the artists of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico who are the soul of this publication.

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Detail of

“Monumento a Carlos V” Monasterio de Yuste, España.

CARLOS TERRÉS Most of the works of the prolific artist Carlos Terrés are inspired by

pre-Hispanic art. He infuses Mayan and Aztec ideas into Western realism.

Nevertheless, his art extends from the European roots of the classic art, of the Baroque, and goes to the magical and the symbolic, the Apollonian and the Dionysian. They are, therefore, the paradigms, that with talent and genius, Terrés transforms through the magical symbiosis of his craftsmanship with his talent, in art.

His paintings, sculptures, and leaded glass are found in churches, roundabouts, government buildings. The work of Terrés is also found and shown in the U.S.A. Guatemala, Costa Rica, Argentina, Canada, Germany, Italy, Israel, Spain, Portugal, Czech Republic and Japan, among other countries.

Carlos TerrĂŠs, intensely develops the message of aesthetic authenticity, which undoubtedly has served as a platform to give him quality and traditional canon to all his work, mainly the pictorial.

TerrĂŠs's drawing has the rare coincidence that his lines regroup, meet, strain, vibrate, at the exact point, which gives them the highest expression of grace, understood as "value" within movement and rhythm .

TerrĂŠs has walked in his aesthetic expression, each day more refined, more origina

boasts. TerrĂŠs drew the air, starting from the point of view that art cannot and shou

Carlos TerrĂŠs, with his work of art leaves a testimony of Mexicanity, through a rich a magic, that envelops and intertwines with the national culture, praising And filled wit

al and syncretic, always supported by the great quality of drawing that all his work uld not be more than creation.

and festive color, synthesizing the origin of tequila that is a mixture of myth and th pride who belongs to the land of Jalisco, MĂŠxico.

Within the masterly atmosphere of his studio where beauty, history and above all art

are breathed, Carlos TerrĂŠs answers our questions.

Where did Carlos TerrĂŠs come from?

I came to the world inside a cultured family, simple and traditionaly Mexican middle class, I grew up in the atmosphere of a purely Jalisco state town and Cultural, Lagos de Moreno. Being my parents apothecaries, I grew up among the recipes and remedies of the pharmacy. My grandmother, my aunts and my mother who were painters, instilled in me a taste for colors and shapes.

What was ďŹ rst the painter or the sculptor?

The painter arrived first. The sculptor was after an economic collapse of my parents. They sold the pharmacies and started a haberdashery and a newspaper, my Mother, painted behind the counter, also working on the restoration of religious figures. I began to help her and that's how I became interested in sculpture. My Mother died when I was 11 years old, she left me her teachings to walk the road I am in today.

How do you catalog your work within the trends?

My style is "TerrĂŠsiano" I call it myself. I have tried not to catalog myself in any trend or style, nor to follow any movement or group, I simply work with the impulse to do the best I can and what I like.

“Venados”

Zoológico de León.

León, Guanajuato.

Of the various materials you work, what is your favorite?

In painting, the technique of acrylic and in bronze sculpture, I have also developed a synthetic stone that I call "Terroca" (Terrés and rock), which is an easy to work material, durable and resistant to the elements.

Which material best expresses your feelings?

The themes in each of the works are those that guide feelings and materials, are the ways that lead us to express them. For example, bronze is a material that expresses strength, nobility, transcendence, etc. And in the colors red for example leads us to heroism, passion, love.

Is there inspiration or is driven by the habit of work?

Of course there is inspiration. It is the creativity in the artist, it is sometimes to be carried away by the madness, by the ideas, to be able to arrive at the creation. The habit is "work" no one who does not work can achieve inspiration, you can lie in bed all day without getting a cent of inspiration, but if you take the brush or clay and start working, then inspiration comes alone without needing to call it.

San Miguel Arcángel & San Francisco de Asís Templo Expiatorio de Guadalajara.

Guadalajara, Jalisco.

What defines you as a painter or sculptor?

What I do, is the product of my hands, but they must be united in working, with the eyes, the mind and the heart, and thus, I can define what I am, and be sure that I am on the right path.

Is there a "Terrés style"? And what is that style or styles?

The Terrés style can be said that it is the constant search, the dissatisfaction, to correct the mistakes daily, to learn daily, to study, to initiate, to start every day and to try to do better work than the one that achieved yesterday.

Who were the artists that influenced your career?

Starting from my Mother, all the Masters I have had, in the School of Arts and in the University. With which I have found in the books, with those that I have lived in the trips and of what I learn in the museums to be face to face with the works that interest to me. Until today, I have not stopped learning something, every day, from all of them.

How long has it taken you to make 11000 works of art?

It is an ideal figure that has been calculated approximately, because I do not count the number of works in which I have worked. I sold my first work at age 8, today I´m 66, so there have been many.

You have been awarded in many ways and in many countries. Is there any of them that means more satisfaction to you?

A teacher of mine in Spain told me about recognitions: "... you do not ask for them, you do not refuse them and you do not take them with you..." and that is a natural consequence of the work. One always considers that it does not deserve the prizes, but I can assure that even the most modest of the recognitions, is a reason of pride and responsibility to continue with the work and to improve it.

What would be the top work of TerrĂŠs? Is it already made or is it in your mind?

It is in my mind every day, and it is like the sign of the small shop that said in Spanish: Hoy no se fía‌ maùana sí�

"Today does not trust, tomorrow yes" ...

So ... If it was not today, maybe tomorrow will be.

Is there a goal for TerrĂŠs?

Yes, to do a better work today than yesterday. Work, study and maintain enthusiasm.

barry

Free as a bird, and flying high.

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The Paroquia complex.

I like drama in my photos.

To me that means “painting in light.�

Street & Church.

Aldama, night view.

I don’t know if it’s me or the

altered reality I live in. I see SMA differently than what it may be. Colors, designs, nuances, themes, light and dark, black and white, it all seems to be a little different than the world from which I came.

I like color and I include black and white in my color taste. Although some images look better in black and white. What is it that’s better? Drama, punch, selectivity, isolation, definition? So how do I make the decision whether a photo will be in color or black and white? Somehow the photo tells me... I just need to be open to seeing and hearing what it tells me.

I like drama in my photos. To me that means “painting in light.” Take for example the black and white photo “Street & Church” looking up the calle Zacateros toward the dome of the nuns church... That photo was shot at 11 am...

I downloaded to Lightroom and Photoshop then converted the daylight scene to a night image and highlighted the walls, streets and sky with white using a digital brush; lit the street

Tenerías.

Kissing. Ah, love!

lamps, removed objects that burdened the photo, and gave the scene a late night feeling which I couldn’t achieve with a photo taken at night.

Color in San Miguel? It doesn’t get any better.

The photos “Tenerias,” “Aldama” and “Looking down Umaran” are examples of how I envision the colors of San Miguel architecture. These photos were taken during the day and converted to a night scene then areas of the photos were digitally brushed and highlighted with white and tonality added to bring out the detail and shadow of walls, doors, streets, curbs, cobble stone.. I love lighting the street lamps.

SMA and fantasy? “Aldama” at night is an example to me of a fantasy street. It’s magic... out of Disney World... I see it as a magical street lit at night. It’s not the same during the day. This too, is photographed during the day and converted to the night scene with added moon and birds.

The “Parroquia Complex” is an attempt to replicate a painting created during the 14th century...

I took out the tv towers and antennas, changed the sky, added a filter to give the image a canvas

Parroquia raising

Looking down Umarán

look, photographed the Egrets in the Presa and overlaid them in the image... the end result gives the image a canvas, painted look.

“Paroquia Rising” is another fantasy image... I wanted a much different look to the SMA icon. The most photographed image in SMA is rising to meet the spiritual needs of the universe.

Sit and wait and something will happen. “Kissing in Jardin” is an example. For many minutes I watched the two lovers embracing and then It happened, a stranger walks by them and with a beguiling smile she seemed to say, “Ah yes, love.” Thank you Cartier-Bresson for the inspiration.

Barry Weiss, photographer and Teacher lives in the colonial city of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

Barry teaches photography in San Miguel and through his VIRTUAL CLASSROOM, Barry can teach photography students anywhere in the world on a one-to-one basis. Students learn Photoshop, Lightroom, camera technique, composition, and photo enhancement while interacting LIVE with 2-way computer screen sharing. Students learn at their own pace while becoming artists of photography.

Artists who want to create

in an emotional or feeling manner must be willing to be vulnerable, because when that happens they open themselves up to criticism, lack of understanding and to selling to a more defined connoisseur or audience. Like most artists I needed to make a living and I worked either as an art instructor or a fabric/fashion designer for most of my life. Even though I enjoyed those occupations I knew there was more I had to say as an artist and that meant I would begin working as a full time painter in the year 2000. Therefore, I became willing to be vulnerable.

The university where I attended as an undergraduate highly encouraged art

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students to work in contemporary/abstract styles. I attribute my development first to, Dr. Alice Nichols (Department Chair). She was a highly innovative and forward thinker.

It was she who encouraged students to begin thinking beyond current trends. Therefore, I admire Picasso and the other artists of his time because of their innovative departures from realism. Indigenous art and especially sculpture including African, Mexican and early man, has freed up many of my inhibitions and allowed art to come through me rather than pre-planning it.

Artists reflect the times they are living in and it includes social, personal, political, and spiritual, etc. All of those influences can be seen in my work. Picasso started a new type of art from realism to abstraction, and he also reflected his time. Many painters, myself included, are adding collage in their work. This could be considered a trend. If, however, a trend means fitting within a particular category of art then I

hope my work doesn`t. I believe it is important to challenge oneself as an artist and to create on the edge and beyond current trends. It is the way art moves forward. It is up to the public and the art world to determine if my work fits within a trend.

Can I define my style? ? I usually paint large. Most of the time I paint human figures. A stroke of paint, the way I draw with paint, the subjects and colors I choose, the way I think………..all of it defines MY STYLE. One of my goals has been to exhibit work in Europe. It was presented at the Palace Commenda de Pre, Genoa, Italy, March 1st, to 15h, 2017. The Commenda is a historic building dating back to 1100.

Eleven of my paintings were introduced by the Cultural Ambassador for UNESCO Prof. Manrico Murzi. He read one of his original poems in front of each one. Those works will be in various exhibitions in Germany within this next year. My goal is to have more exhibitions in Europe, the US and Mexico.

I intend to expand my creativity by incorporating fabric printing into sculpture.

El Tiempo Pasa El Tiempo Pasa

The Mistic

Monolito II

Recordando la Familia.

Has the sound and the emotion that Pavarotti sings into his music ever brought tears to your eyes, or caused you to feel on a very deep level? It didn’t matter if you did not understand the words. As an artist/painter my goal is

to create works that cause people to feel, think or remember on a deep level, and words are superfluous.

Not any one of the arts or media has a monopoly on expressing feelings, courage or “The Force”. Those attributes come from the “inner” artist no matter what genre or material they are using. As for me, my life experiences and heritage contributes to my inner artist’s message and then it appears on the canvas. My greatest satisfaction as an artist is when my work speaks to someone in a very personal way.

James Lasley The year was 1970. I had just returned from traveling in Venezuela. Back in

the USA I couldn’t stop listening to Santana’s “Abraxas,” a magical mixture of Latin rhythms mixed with blazing rock guitar solos. On the album cover I discovered Mati Klarwein’s 1961 painting, “Annunciation.” This image brought back my entire South American adventure and deeply inspired me to become a painter.

“We stood before it and began to freeze inside from the exertion. We questioned the painting, berated it, made love to it, prayed to it: We called it mother, called it whore and slut, called it our beloved, called it Abraxas....” Hermann Hesse’s book, Demian.

When painting I don’t follow trends, I follow the (my) artist’s path…always. I love the Zen quality of painting. Applying colored liquids to cloth surfaces without any design or image in mind (mindlessness) is how I paint. I let my subconscious guide my brush and the magnificent positive energy of San Miguel de Allende where I live.

“Zen points directly to the human heart, see into your nature and become Buddha”,

San Miguel Warrior for Peace

Hakuin Ekaku, 17th Century Working in the three-dimensions takes me to levels very deep inside the creative source. Many times when I worked in metal, a narrative/personality develops which is exceptionally rewarding.

I´m sure I can express my feelings with Paint. Because liquid paint is like our own life-giving blood. It has special static qualities, a timeless visual link to the heart, and at times create a heightened state of love and awareness.

Yes, it takes a lot of courage to follow your own unique artist’s path in life, but the rewards are unlimited. The force is with you.

Adam and Eve

JC del Barrio

I’m quite lazy, so I rely on inspiration. Beauty and the miracles of life are everywhere.

Sometimes it is quite overwhelming. I thank the powers of the cosmos for all I have, and all I don’t have.

I always work on two paintings at a time, one abstract image and one cosmic-light energy image. I find that this allows for my creative process to bounce back-and-forth between both sides of my brain. But I don’t have a style, but I do have a specific image adventure.

By now my most important step is to complete my exhibition series of cosmic-light energy Christian saints in both realism and abstract styles. It will called: “The Light of Abstraction” or “La luz de la Abstracción.”

Spirit of San Miguel

The Muralist Liliana Zuppini

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Many murals and graffities along the street Canciรณn India,

s t e e l e u g The mural by Liliana Zuppini is under restauration.

Hermosa expresiรณn de una joven mexicana.

Wild Armadillos .

By Boomsek and Mike, a mural with Mythological beasts.

San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, is widely

known for the breadth of its artistic panorama. Many artists of all kinds and different nationalities have taken residence in this colorful city in addition to its historical significance. Here, art manifests itself continuously in film festivals, musicals, theater and other forms. Above all these manifestations, the visual arts have a preponderant place. Crowd of galleries, several teaching centers and exhibition of painting, sculpture, photography are active. The streets are also an attraction for the visitor, first for its historical heritage and for the colorful architecture with deep marks of the colonial era.

Precisely in the streets of the neighborhood called Colonia Guadalupe, we find an extraordinary manifestation of art, which we could call ... popular? Or ... scenic?

The movement is called White Walls (Muros en Blanco) which aims to boost the development of public art and especially in Colonia Guadalupe.

An intense look... mural signed as Joce

The ingenuity in full of a bleeding heart.

It’s just a demonstration that seeks neither fame, nor the money of its sale, nor even the prize to their talent. Many houses and fences were the canvases for the execution of these murals that the painters and graffiti men left captured with their creativity.

But these manifestations have their history and now we know that nothing was easy. Four years ago, Liliana Zuppini was commissioned to paint a mural for an organic restaurant. The neighbors were alarmed: “How come

this woman is going to paint the walls?” The protest came to the Municipal Presidency and as the mayor she ordered the wall be removed. They did not judge painting as an expression of art, or craft if you will. No, they called it immoral and should disappear.

Liliana Zuppini was not satisfied and other “grafiteros” (graffiti men) accompanied her in their intentions. In 2013 the change of municipal president, there were improvements in cultural diffusion and emerged the group MUROS EN BLANCO to paint murals in that neighborhood.

Now we can appreciate the pictorial quality of most murals in which the cultural motifs of Mexican traditions prevail, although there are also all kinds of expressions that go to nature, romance and even mythical heroes. Most works are not signed or are marked with pseudonyms or initials.

And there are the works that over time are exposed to the natural indifference of neighbors who have become accustomed to their daily existence.

Sadness in a monochromatic mural.

Madonnari en Comonfort

In Comonfort. Guanajuato, Mexico,

by Norma Adriana Parra

Refugio Ugalde, 2nd. place winner .

the first edition of the Madonnari Contest was held with the theme “This is Guanajuato in Mexico�. The architect David Carracedo Navarro was the organizer and achieved a cultural success with the participation of 2 exhibitors and 28 artists from different cities of the republic and one from France.

Madonnari art was born in Italy in the sixteenth century and has the peculiar characteristic of being the art of painting on the floor of the streets with gis (pastels). Some scholars affirm that this technique was born thanks to the Roman soldiers who, when they returned from the war, in spiritual

First place winner Manuel Reyes Servín

gratitude, painted Madonna (virgins, maidens and women) in the main streets of the city. And here, our artists painted on the sidewalks subjects of Guanajuato.

Either way, Madonnari art will always be a perishable art. When painted in the streets, on the sidewalks is exposed to the inclement weather and even the passage of passers-by who after the event do not pay attention. The artist knows in advance that his work will only remain in memory and photographs.

The competition was widely accepted by the public who surprised by the artistic quality surrounded with admiration to the artists and even to offer them food. The morning was enlivened by the classic guitarist Jorge Aranda Barrón and the rock band Indigo Karmin, residents of Comonfort.

Judges Victor H. Espinosa Godínez, originally from San Miguel de Allende, Eulalio García Chávez from Monterrey and Emmanuel Cuevas Martínez from Guadalajara, gave the first place to Manuel Reyes Servín and the second place to Refugio Felipe Ugalde, both originating from Ácambaro Gto. The third place was obtained by Alexia Campos Acosta and Felipe Mendiola Pichardo from San José Iturbide, GTO. More information: madonnaricomonfort@hotmail.com And www.facebook.com/madonnari.comonfort.5

If you are interested in the work of the artists shown here, please contact them directly.

Barry Weiss barryweissphoto@gmail.com www.barryweissphoto.com 415-152-1597 Carlos TerrĂŠs http://carlosterres.com.mx/ terrescalli.cultural@gmail.com Sharon van den Berg vandenberg.fabricartist.sharon@gmail.com www.vandenbergtheartist.com James Lasley www.jlasleydesigns.com jlasleydesigns@gmail.com Al Tirado altiradoart@gmail.com www.altiradoart.wixsite.com/altirado

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