Alebrijes: Mexico's Fever Dream Sculptures
Alebrijes are brightly colored Mexican folk art sculptures of fantastical creatures made from papier-mâché or wood in Mexico. Pedro Linares López began creating these surreal forms in Mexico City in 1936 during a high fever with vivid hallucinations. Mexico City hosts an annual alebrije parade.
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Alebrijes are brightly colored Mexican folk art sculptures of fantastical creatures made from papier-mâché or wood in Mexico.
Pedro Linares López began creating these surreal forms in Mexico City in 1936 during a high fever with vivid hallucinations.
Mexico City hosts an annual alebrije parade.
Pedro Linares saw a donkey with butterfly wings and a rooster with bull horns shouting one nonsense word.
Wheat flour glue holds the magic together.
Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo purchased Judas figures from Linares; a Cuernavaca gallery owner also discovered the designs.
In the 1980s, Judith Bronowski arranged a U.S. workshop where Oaxacan artisans learned about papier-mâché alebrijes.
Copal wood is apparently magical now.
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