'A Wink on the Wall' from Mexico's Other Muralism

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BLAG 02 featured the photography of Alex Kurunis, capturing the signs and sign painters he found on his travels in Mexico. The article referenced the collection of essays in El Otro Murlismo (The Other Muralism) published in 2009 in Artes de México No.95.

Cover of 'Sign Painting: The 'Other' Muralism'. Artes de México, 2009, No.95.

I ordered a copy directly from the publisher, and have licenced one of its essays, 'Un Guiño en la Pared' (A Wink on the Wall) for reproduction here. In it, Enrique Soto Eguibar discusses his fascination with documenting hand-painted signs in Mexico, the iconography found on them, and his observations on those that paint them.