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Koloman Falcon and graphics in Mexico 1937 - 1941

Exhibition July 25 − September 29, 2019
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico City hosts an exhibition "Koloman Falcon and graphics in Mexico 1937 - 1941Artistic, ethnic and social aspects merge in the master's work. The main motive of his works was a man. In his works, the artist often depicted suffering, poverty and human pain. He created numerous woodcuts.

Koloman Sokol (1902 in Liptovsky Mikulas - 2003 in Tucson, Arizona) was one of the most prominent Slovak artists, graphic artists and illustrators. The founder of modern Slovak graphics. The master attended the private schools of Evgeny Kron in Kosice and Gustav Malley in Bratislava, as well as the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. In Czechoslovakia, he became a member of the Association of Czechoslovak graphic artists. After a short period of study in Paris, the author accepted an invitation from the Ministry of Culture and Education of Mexico for teaching. From 1937 to 1941, he became a professor of graphic methods at Esquella de las Artes del Libro and at the University of Mexico. From 1942 to 1946 he lived in New York, then returned to Slovakia, where he taught at the Slovak University of Technology and at Comen University. In 1948 he left for the United States. From the sixties he created a special symbolic and mythological style. Later he lived in Tucson, where he died at the age of one hundred years.