the queen
La Tumba de La Reina Roja / 2003-2006
The discovery of La Tumba De La Reina Roja (The Tomb of the Red Queen) in Palenque, Mexico in 1994 represented a major Mayan archeological find and inspired the first of Ricardo Mazal’s great Trilogy exploring human mortality and burial. Known as the “red queen” due to the fact that her remains were entombed in a sarcophagus filled with a powder of bright red cinnabar, she and her jungle surroundings rise again in Mazal’s brilliantly colorful abstractions. A perfect rectangle of red powdered pigment (Mazal’s first employment of installation elements) appeared on the floor in the center of the museums where this work was first exhibited.
Ricardo Mazal Photograph Templo 1, 2004 Pigment Ink Print on Paper
Installation view of LA TUMBA DE LE REINA ROJA at Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, Mexico 2004-2005
LA TUMBA DE LE REINA ROJA at Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, Mexico 2004-2005
Installation view of LA TUMBA DE LE REINA ROJA at Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, Mexico 2004-2005
Installation view of LA TUMBA DE LE REINA ROJA at Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, Mexico 2004-2005
WORKS 1994 - 2006 at the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico 2006
WORKS 1994 - 2006 at the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico 2006
Installation view of RICARDO MAZAL LA TUMBA DE LA REINA ROJA: FROM REALITY TO ABSTRACTION at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ 2006
Installation view of RICARDO MAZAL LA TUMBA DE LA REINA ROJA: FROM REALITY TO ABSTRACTION at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ 2006
Installation view of RICARDO MAZAL LA TUMBA DE LA REINA ROJA: FROM REALITY TO ABSTRACTION at the Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM 2004
Artist Installing Exhibition, RICARDO MAZAL LA TUMBA DE LA REINA ROJA: FROM REALITY TO ABSTRACTION at the Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM 2004
selected works
"Noche Transformada 3" and "Noche Transformada 2" 2004 Oil on Linen 98.5 x 98.5 inches / 250 X 250 CM , PRIVATE COLLECTION SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE
"Rojo Malaquita 10" and "Rojo Malaquita 2" 2006 Oil on Linen 98.5 x 98.5 inches / 250 X 250 CM, PRIVATE COLLECTIONS MEXICO CITY
"AH K'U NA 3" 2006 Oil on Linen 98.5 x 150 inches / 250 x 381 CM, PRIVATE COLLECTION
"Rojo Malaquita 7" 2006 Oil on Linen 98.5 x 150 inches / 250 x 381 CM, PRIVATE COLLECTION SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA
photographs
"Piedras 1", 2004 Pigment Ink Print on Paper 42 x 41.5 inches
"Muro 2," 2004 Pigment Ink Print on Paper 42 x 41.5 inches
"Muro 1," 2004 Pigment Ink Print on Paper 42 x 41.5 inches
Selva de Noche 2, 2004 Pigment Ink Print on Paper 42 x 41.5 inches
Selva de Noche 1, 2004 Pigment Ink Print on Paper 42 x 41.5 inches
Selva de Noche 4, 2004 Pigment Ink Print on Paper 42 x 41.5 inches