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b. 1965 -

Graphic Studio Francisco Limón (1965) Painter and engraver

Artist of the state of Mexico, has worked primarily painting and printmaking with the studio Contrepoit (old studio Stanley W. Hayter 17), with the Danish engraver Bo Rorben Halbirk and the lithography Clot, Bramsem & Georges, Paris.

He has given numerous engraving workshops in Mexico, Europe and Asia, he has also lectured about engraving, mainly in the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris VII; was guest artist by Silapakorn University in Bangkok, Thailand where he lived two and a half years and began the studios´ project in Laos; since 2006 he lives in Oaxaca where he teaches engraving and has co-founded since four studios: with Demian Flores the studio graphical current (taga), the studio "The graphic footprint" with Alejandro Santiago, the gallery-studio of "Esteban Chapital "and currently has his studio in an independent way in which he edits graphic works of contemporary artists.

Likewise he has been dedicated to making paintings and sculptures in bronze, his work has been exhibited in various countries such as Argentina, Uruguay, Denmark, Spain, France, Laos, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Peru, United States and Thailand.

The engraving with multiple techniques puts into play, different supports that he uses in the case of wood, linoleum or copper, to name only a few-not only learning (patient) of a lifetime but also a fruitful adventure. The requirement of doing without flaw a gestural mastery precise participating in the execution of a work which in turn is individual (the artist's creation) and collective (execution), indeed the various stages enroll in a course of successive operations and shared by different actors in the process. This is where the wisdom and hesitations, doubts and surprises, improvised decisions quickly are the guarantors of success in this adventure. Time is a merciless master of the game because he determines, with drawing, inking or color, the final result.

The chances of such enterprise never discouraged an artist like Francisco Limón, open to all technical and aesthetic challenges.
The French years of Francisco are capitals, its passage in two of the most important Parisian studios undoubtedly helped to forge the continued quality of an activity pursued with passion for over twenty years: the studio of 17 S.W Hayter (where they worked between 1927 and 1965, Calder, Rotthko, Picasso, Dali, Giacometti and Matta) and the Clot Workshop, Bramsen & Georges (Created over a hundred years ago and currently led by the son of a founder, Christian Bramsen, was the passage almost forced of many Latin American artists such as Antonio Seguí- and of Mexico as Francisco Toledo, Alberto Gironella or Guillermo Arizta, and other, whether or Alechinsky or Antonio Saura).

His setting in Oaxaca is not truly a chance. Hotbed of artists, the city has numerous studios in the practice of engraving that has accompanied the paintings of great artistic figures of the region for almost a century ago; as Rufino Tamayo, for whom the mixography opened new formal expectations as well as Francisco Toledo, grand inventor of images and technical innovation; the tradition endures with the younger generation of SMEK (Javier Santos), Guillermo Olguin, Ricardo Pinto or Fernando Aceves Humana. Indeed, Mexico perpetual and cultivated with plural and neat talents of the many facets of print since the father of all the engravers, José Guadalupe Posada opened the way to a new expression, freed of academic fastening, anticipating some years true liberation that would come with Mexican figurative school out of the Revolution and the creation of the Studio of Popular Graphics in 1937.

Strengthened of its French experience and enriched by international relations knotted across the Atlantic, Francisco Limon decided to open his own studio in Oaxaca considering that this could become an additional item of knowledge and artistic exchanges between Europe and Mexico, in the same way to extend the practice of the stamp to a larger number of artists, thanks to the vast educational work and exchange glances, experiences and practices in order to feed a Mexican tradition where the hours of glory are in constant renewal.