In Memoriam Francisco Munguía Villalta (1976- 2020) The art of being with people

Authors

  • Adriana Collado Chaves Ministerio de Cultura Y Juventud, Costa Rica

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15359/istmica.27.7

Keywords:

Francisco Munguía, Costa Rican art, graphic humor, muralism, community

Abstract

Francisco Munguía Villalta (1976-2020) was a talented, highly productive and multifaceted Costa Rican artist. He produced a vast work, in different formats and techniques. He believed in the transforming power of art and consequently produced a socially committed work guided by the conviction that art should be accessible, inclusive, participatory and educational. He developed a plastic language anchored in his vocation of graphic humor. This, together with his fondness for social volunteering and community work, allowed him to establish easy links of communication and an extraordinary familiarity with people. Its iconographic universe of comic strip and its narrative full of parody and satire lives in his stickers, ceramics and paintings. His mural works managed not only to change the urban landscape, but also to reaffirm a sense of community, since his participatory methodology aspired to restore the power of people and to enable them to take over their own public spaces. Without delving into a chronological review of the artist’s journey, nor a logical analysis of his extensive production, this document shares an overview of aspects that are considered emblematic in the work of Munguía Villalta. This is a tribute to his memory and a celebration of the vitality of his extraordinary plastic legacy.

Author Biography

Adriana Collado Chaves, Ministerio de Cultura Y Juventud

Bachiller en Historia del Arte por la Universidad de Costa Rica –UCR-, Máster en Patrimonio Mundial y Proyectos Culturales para el Desarrollo por la Universidad de Turín, Italia y la Universidad de Barcelona, España, Máster en Administración de Negocios por INCAE Business School, Nicaragua. Ha sido Directora de Cultura del Ministerio de Cultura y Juventud –MCJ- (2005-2010), Directora del Teatro Nacional de Costa Rica (2010-2014) y Curadora del Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo –MADC- (2016-2019). Del 2015 al 2020 realizó labores Ad honorem de comunicación cultural en el Programa Desayunos de Radio Universidad de la UCR. Actualmente es Jefa del Departamento de Promoción Regional de la Dirección de Cultura del MCJ. Es editora de cinco catálogos correspondientes a curadurías de su autoría, todos bajo el sello MADC. Su última publicación es: “Zona de Turbulencia: Arte en Nicaragua, De la Revolución al Neoliberalismo. Raúl Quintanilla Armijo. San José: TEOR/éTica, 2018”, en Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos, Universidad de Costa Rica (45): 713-17, 2019.

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Published

2021-01-05

How to Cite

“In Memoriam Francisco Munguía Villalta (1976- 2020) The Art of Being With People”. 2021. ÍSTMICA. Revista De La Facultad De Filosofía Y Letras 1 (27): 95-113. https://doi.org/10.15359/istmica.27.7.

How to Cite

“In Memoriam Francisco Munguía Villalta (1976- 2020) The Art of Being With People”. 2021. ÍSTMICA. Revista De La Facultad De Filosofía Y Letras 1 (27): 95-113. https://doi.org/10.15359/istmica.27.7.

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