Our mini adventures in Latin American sign painting now take us to Mexico, a country with a strong and diverse sign painting heritage. Next month's BLAG Monthly newsletter will look at this in even more depth, so join today to receive this and a host of other membership benefits.

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BLAG 02 featured the photography of Alex Kurunis, capturing the signs and sign painters he found on his travels in Mexico. The article referenced the collection of essays in El Otro Murlismo (The Other Muralism) published in 2009 in Artes de México No.95.

Cover of a journal with an Illustration of an anthropomorphised prawn carrying a plate of food. The lettering reads "El Otro Muralismo: Rótulos Comerciales. Artes de México 95".
Cover of 'Sign Painting: The 'Other' Muralism'. Artes de México, 2009, No.95.

I ordered a copy directly from the publisher, and have licenced one of its essays, 'Un Guiño en la Pared' (A Wink on the Wall) for reproduction here. In it, Enrique Soto Eguibar discusses his fascination with documenting hand-painted signs in Mexico, the iconography found on them, and his observations on those that paint them.

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