Javier Marín receives this year's Recognition.

Uruapan, Mich. – Javier Marín is one of the most renowned visual artists with worldwide recognition, proudly born in Uruapan, Michoacán, in 1962.
With forty years of production and presence in institutions and the art and culture media, Javier Marín has exhibited his work on more than three hundred occasions individually and collectively in Mexico, the United States and Canada, as well as in several countries in Central America, South America, Asia and Europe.
The artist conceives in his work an integral human being through the analysis of the process of construction and deconstruction of three-dimensional forms.
Although many of his pieces are paradoxically abstract, he is known mainly for his figurative sculpture that represents humans.
A constant researcher who collaborates with highly qualified artisans, using traditional materials and techniques (drawing, oil or acrylic painting, terracotta modeling, lost wax bronze casting, marble carving, wood carving, wool weaving, cyanotypes and other photographic processes and more), he also researches to develop new techniques such as mixing polymers to encapsulate seeds, sugar, meat, tobacco and other elements, Javier Marín has recently incorporated “3D” scanning and printing in additive, subtractive and hybrid digital photographic printing techniques, in continuous exploration with new tools.

Architectural design is also one of his means of expression, with “Plantel Matilde” in SacChich, Yucatán being his most important piece.

With his pieces he invites the viewer to focus on the evidence of the process, the elements that are crucial in the transformation of materials and the intervention of third parties, whether people, instruments, machines or robots.

His work is part of important public and private collections in Mexico and abroad, including: the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, in Mexico City; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Monterrey; the Museo del Barro, in Caracas; the Santa Bárbara Museum of Art, in California; the Museum of Fine Arts, in Boston; the Boca Raton Museum of Art and the Latin American Museum, in Florida; and also the Blake-Purnell Collection, in New York; the Costantini Collection of the Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires; the Ersel Collection, in Turin; and the Prince of Monaco Art Collection.

Among his most ambitious but selfless projects is the creation of the Javier Marín Foundation, a non-profit association, created in 2013, which is inserted into the world of culture and art.

It is a space that investigates, links and professionalizes the visual and plastic arts, creating spaces for encounter and collaboration in vulnerable communities.

Its programs respond to specific problems and contexts, with the conviction that art and culture are decisive for the transformation and development of society.

In Yucatán, he created the Taller de Barro de Sac Chich, a community space for innovation and ceramic production that aims to generate additional income for the families who live in the rural town of San Antonio Sac Chich.

It is undeniable that Javier Marín has raised the name of Uruapan in Mexico and practically throughout the world.

But for the artist, it was not enough to take Uruapan around the world, but rather he proposed to bring the world to Uruapan, and through art show that the Pearl of Cupatitzio is not a lawless land, but a center with an enviable gastronomic culture and cultural tradition.

With this objective in mind, the “Centro Cultural Fábrica de San Pedro” was created, in collaboration with the three levels of government and civil society, a project that has as its headquarters one of the most beautiful and emblematic buildings in this city, and which had from the beginning the support of state and federal authorities, as well as civil society.
The Centro Cultural Fábrica de San Pedro was officially inaugurated in March 2021, but before that it had already presented various international exhibitions, with curators of the highest level.

It has also been the venue for various workshops in which artisans from this region learn new methods to develop their skills without losing their essence, and it has also been a unique space for the presentation of gastronomic samples, for the presentation of books and for high-level conferences, by the Mexican Culture Seminar.

From 2022 to 2024, the Cultural Center has received more than 50 thousand visitors.

For all the above, it is an honor for Diario ABC de Michoacán to present the Fray Juan de San Miguel Recognition for Citizen Example to the visual artist Javier Marín, a pride of this land.
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