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Enrique Chagoya

The Men in Sacks (Los ensacados)

Maker

Enrique Chagoya (Mexican, b. 1955)
Brian Shure (American, b. 1952), printer
Louise Kohrman, printer, (Former RISD Faculty, Printmaking)
RISD Editions

Title

The Men in Sacks (Los ensacados)

Year

2003

Medium

  • etching,
  • aquatint,
  • and red stamping on wove paper

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • etching,
  • aquatint,
  • and red stamping on wove paper

Materials

pigment, paper (fiber product)

Dimensions

Plate: 26 x 35.6 cm (10 1/4 x 14 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscribed in graphite, LL: "6 / 40"; and LR: "Enrique Chagoya '03"

Identification

Edition

6/40

Standard Reference Number

Kirk Hanley 2013, no. 2

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of the Printmaking Department, Rhode Island School of Design

Object Number

2004.19.2

Type

  • Prints

Exhibition History

Raid the Icebox Now with Pablo Helguera
Inventarios / Inventories
Feb 07, 2020 – Aug 21, 2021
Visions and Revisions
Feb 15, 2019 – Aug 04, 2019

Label copy

This aquatint is a near copy of the print to the left. The bulbous shape in the sky is a nuclear mushroom cloud-an addition that brings modern-day fears to Goya’s timeless image. The red stamp featuring cartoonish mushrooms is a humorous counterpoint to the bleak implications of the print.

Chagoya has made more than 30 prints after Goya, often inserting a modern element into the older images. Both artists engage with themes of greed, injustice, and the ravages of war; it is merely the contingent circumstances that change. Chagoya has described replicating these images as a kind of “communication with Goya’s

ghost.” At the same time, as a Mexican artist incorporating the imagery of a Spanish predecessor, Chagoya purposely reverses the historic direction of colonial appropriation.

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Tombstone

Enrique Chagoya (Mexican, b. 1955)
Brian Shure (American, b. 1952), printer
Louise Kohrman, printer
RISD Editions
The Men in Sacks (Los ensacados), 2003
Etching, aquatint, and red stamping on wove paper
Plate: 26 x 35.6 cm (10 1/4 x 14 inches)
Gift of the Printmaking Department, Rhode Island School of Design 2004.19.2

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