In Praise of Flies in Art.
Aurelio Asiain, Ángel de Campo “Micrós”, Hugo Hiriart, Mercurio López Casillas, Juan José Millás, Martin Monestier, Augusto Monterroso, Myriam Moscona, Salvador Novo, José Emilio Pacheco, Gonzalo Rojas, Alberto Ruy Sánchez
What is that black mote soiling the pages of this issue of Artes de México? A fly. When we try to close the magazine, it flits into the following section. There is another one on the next page, and more on the subsequent ones: hundreds of them. It seems that flies are not only attracted to rubbish: some actually love sixteenth-century paintings as well, while others enjoy being turned into a political cartoonist’s drawing, into a poet’s verses, or into this exceptional issue’s illustrations…PRICES DO NOT INCLUDE SHIPPING
