Jeffrey Brown:
Indeed, Carlomagno Pedro Martinez, director of the Museum of Popular Art in Oaxaca, who curated the exhibit, says it’s important to understand this work in terms of contemporary art.
Carlomagno Pedro Martinez, Curator, Alebrijes and Nahuales (through interpreter): There has always been controversy if folk art or handicrafts is different from contemporary art, but this art that is presented is contemporary art, without a doubt, and the people who are producing it are artists with all the breadth of the word. This is contemporary art from the indigenous communities of Oaxaca.
