8.28.2007

Mauricio Toussaint - Mexican Artists


Mauricio Toussaint (b. 1960 in Guadalajara, Mexico) is a famous Mexican modern artist. Of French and Mexican fall, Toussaint was involved in making art from a young age. Following his parents’ prospect to make a living, he enters the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara to get a degree in structural design (he graduated during 1985 with a Bachelor of Science degree).


During this time, he was confident by a professor from the near Visual Arts Department to make art on his own. Invited to work at the open class at the Centro de Arte Moderno, he made prints during 1982-83 and afterward, he board on a series of paintings. By the mid 1980s, he had fake relations with art experts from the center, and was soon asked to team up as a helper curator at the Instituto Cultural Cabañas—his career in architecture formally replaced with art.


In 1995 Toussaint came to the United States, tempted by friends in the music business, which confident him to join them in Miami. He has had numerous exhibits in dissimilar Mexican cities over and above other countries like Spain, France, Korea and the United Sates.