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Enrique Chagoya

The Men in Sacks (Los ensacados), 2003

Description

Maker

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

Title

The Men in Sacks (Los ensacados)

Year

2003

Medium

Etching, aquatint, and red stamping on wove paper

Materials/Techniques

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

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Gift of the Printmaking Department, Rhode Island School of Design

Object Number

2004.19.2

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Raid the Icebox Now with Pablo Helguera

February 7, 2020 - August 21, 2021

Visions and Revisions

February 15 - August 4, 2019

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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