Daniel Guzmán: The Man Who Should Be Dead

Daniel Guzmán is a voracious reader with an incurable love for music, who digests, absorbs, and recombines musical and literary references. Residues from the artist’s daily life in Mexico City and, more recently, in Guadalajara—such as comics, cartoons, song lyrics, pre-Hispanic iconography, and press clippings—are part of his vocabulary. Ink, pencil, acrylic, and pastel are used to create images that appear in constant transformation, sometimes interlaced with texts in a complex weave of connections. His sculptures, videos, and installations suggest a personal and intimate territory that emerges from closely examining the culture and urban landscapes that surround him. With a strategic and contagious sense of humor, Guzmán reflects upon his experience of the world.

Assistant Professor of Art and Human Rights at the University of Connecticut, José Falconi received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2010. From 2001 to 2011, he was Art Forum Curator at the David Rockefeller for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, curating more than thirty shows of cutting-edge Latino and Latin American artists in an academic setting. In the United States, he has been appointed Lecturer in the Department of Art History and Architecture at Brandeis University (2014-2020), Boston University in the Spring of 2016 and in the School of the Arts at the University of Connecticut in the Spring of 2021.