Tecali, Puebla
Artist name
Artist year born
1942
Artwork make date
2011
Artwork material
silver gelatin
paper
paper
Artwork dimensions
height: 18cm
width: 17.8cm
width: 17.8cm
Artwork type (categories)
Photograph
Accession method
Purchased with the assistance of the Art Fund and the PINTA Museums Acquisitions Programme 2011-2012
Accession number
4-2012
Label text
Tecali (de Herrera) is the name of a town in Mexico in the state of Puebla where Iturbide has taken a number of photographs. The word is from Nahuatl, the official language of the Aztecs, which is still spoken today by two million Mexicans today. From the Nahuatl, via Spanish, we have the words chocolate (xocolatl) tomato (tomatl) and avocado (from ahuacatl). Tecali is derived from teo-calli, meaning ‘sacred/god (teo) house (calli)’ or temple. This photograph appears to show some kind of water tank, whose opaque water lends Iturbide’s reflected self-portrait an even softer quality.
(Display caption from the exhibition Mexican Migrations, 2013)
(Display caption from the exhibition Mexican Migrations, 2013)