¿HACIA DONDE VAN LOS ANIMALES?

In 2010, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo of Oaxaca and the Editorial Almadía celebrated seventy years of painter Francisco Toledo publishing in complicity a collection of poems written around the work and person of the artist and selected by Ernesto Lumbreras and Efraín Velazco. In addition to being festive, this edition solved the gap that the publication had left Toledo: la línea metafórica", by Miguel Flores Ramírez In 1998. Of modest circulation and currently converted into a bibliographic rarity, this edition began to gather the works of poets seduced by the eroticized territory of the painter. But the fascination and amazement provoked by the magnetic aura of this Juchiteco did not diminish in strength, and in the following years it continued to attract literati from all latitudes and translations, paying to the first list a diverse multitude. ¿Hacia dónde van los animales? 21 poetas dialogan con el arte de Francisco Toledo (Where are the animals going? 21 poets dialogue with the art of Francisco Toledo), at the time he collected a delta of multiple confluences around the work of the Oaxacan. Putting it into circulation again is a test of loyalty to Toledo's love for lyrics, but at the same time, it celebrates the Oaxaca native artist's entry into the eternity of untamed beauty and the tribal memory of those who have fought for a more just and fraternal world.".