Gabriel Flores - Reflections of Mexican Muralism.
By Ruben Cham - The Loft Gallery - September 2006
Jalisco is home of important creators whose specific artistic weight have been determinant in the course of the national art history. When it comes to Muralism, that flourishing pictorial movement from the first half of the XX that reached with greater solidity, perhaps over any other expression of the Mexican painting, a position of privilege in the scope of the world-wide art, two jaliscienses emphasize: José Clemente Orozco and Gabriel Flores.
Such ordering, hierarchic, obeys as well to their personal chronologies: Ciudad Guzmán (Zapotlán el Grande) 1883 and Guadalajara 1930, and to the institutional merit whereupon are represented in the hearth of the State Capital City: Orozco at the State Government Palace with his mural to Hidalgo (1949) and Flores at the Municipal Presidency of Guadalajara with Foundation of the City, (1965).
In a similar way, both of them share the spaces of the building with greater historical meaning of Mexico, the Chapultepec Castle, in where Orozco painted, in 1948 the board " Juárez Revived " for the Reforma Room and Flores, on the cupola that crowns the castle’s main stairs, "Los Niños Héroes" (1967). Currently, the rests of these two excellent artists, are buried at the Roundhouse of the Illustrious Men.
Gabriel Flores Gabriel studied Painting in the Escuela de Artes y Oficios, University of Guadalajara (1948). In 1952, in Mexico City, he worked with Siqueiros and Ó’Gorman for the accomplishment of the murals at the Universidad Autónoma de México, UNAM.
 From his extense exhibitions historial we remark: Biblioteca Benjamín Franklin (Guadalajara 1951), Teatro Degollado (1955), Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, DF (1963), Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo BID, Washington DC (1978), Centro Cultural Universidad de Guadalajara (1984), Galería Municipal Torres Bodet (1980-81-82-85), Galería “Gabriel Flores” UdeG (1988), Galería de Arte Moderno (1989), Museo Regional de Guadalajara(1989-2003), Instituto Cultural Cabañas (1993), Museo de la Ciudad (1997) and Casa-Museo López Portillo (2004). His work was meritory, in 1950, of the First Prize Escuela de Artes y Letras, UdeG, The Prize alisco Artes in 1962, and the Internacional Prize Lenin in 1967; in 1984 receives from the State Government of Jalisco, the Medal to The Plastic Arts and, in 1962, he is nominated as the Predilect Son of Guadalajara.
His exceptional drawing skills are the fundament where it leys his unique and personal style, free and powerful, ruling compositions of great expressive force harmonized by a rich range of chromatic values whose accords are accentuated by the black outline.
Gabriel Flores. (Guadalajara 1930 - 1993)
• El Maíz en la Colonia (1955)
• Mariano Azuela (1956) Lagos de Moreno
• El Parnaso Jalisciense (1958) State Library Cupola
• La Primera Imprenta (1958) State Culture House.
• Orígenes del Teatro en México (1959) Experimental Theatre of Jalisco
• La Guerra y la Paz (1962) Bank of Zamora.
• Maternidad (1963) Hospital Esperanza López Mateos, SSA Guadalajara
• Pedro Moreno (1964), Escuela Preparatoria
• Fundación de Guadalajara (1965) City Hall, Guadalajara
• Las Ciencias y la Filosofía (1966) Auditorio Salvador Allende, U de G
• Las Bellas Artes (1966) Fine Arts Department of Jalisco
• Las Artesanías (1968) Casa de las Artesanías, Jalisco
• Los Niños Héroes (1967) Cúpula Castillo de Chapultepec, México DF
• Tahona y Fiesta (1969), Casa Sauza, Tequila, Jal
• Mitología e Historia del Tequila, (1970) Casa Sauza, Tequila, Jal.
• El Fracaso de la Civilización Rectoría Universidad de Guadalajara
• “Sucesos” Edificio Valentín Gómez Farías (1978 -1980) U de G
• Sueño de un Niño (1982) DIF Jalisco
• Cervantes y su Obra, (1978) Capilla Cervantina Museo Iconográfico del Quijote, Guanajuato
• Alegorías de la Justicia I y II (1982) Procuraduría General de la República
• Historia de la Medicina (1989) Hospital Civil
• Estampas de la Vida, (1978)Teatro Alarife Martín Casillas, Foro de Arte y Cultura de Jalisco
• Culto al Dinero, (1978) Teatro Alarife Martín Casillas, Foro de Arte y Cultura de Jalisco
Gabriel Flores is represented by The Loft Gallery. A valuable collection of drawings belonging to the series “La Mirada Desnuda” is in permanent exhibition.
Ruben Cham
Strawn / Cham Projects
Corona 176 – A, Zona Centro
Phone: 52 [322] 222-63 53 Cel.: 322 135-6303
E-mail: ruben.cham@yahoo.com.mx
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