Federico Guzmán

Federico Guzmán initiates the search of The Serpent Climber, or Lolliuhqui, an ancient, Mexican magic drug derived from the seeds of a certain kind of Morning Glories (Convolvulaceae), which contain entheogenic active agents similar to LSD. The prints transcends formally and conceptually the traditional idea of intaglio printmaking. They are unique pieces of which a number of between two and five variations have been taken. Guzmán crafted the prints through a 4-color printing process. Each image has been painted 4 times, applying manually yellow, magenta, cyan and finally black ink onto a perspex plate, subsequently printing each color following the mechanisms of traditional off-set printing.

Printed in collaboration with Elena Alonso and Juan Cruz Ibañez.

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The Swiss chemist and intellectual, Albert Hoffmann comments on considering entheogenic a gift from the vegetable kingdom: All though we know the function of the majority of constituent plants, we are yet to discover the utility of certain substances called alkaloids. Although we don’t know how the plant uses them, there is no doubt that they are of no essential use. We have reached this conclusion observing how, within each vegetal species that produces alkaloids there are identical botanical variations that doesn’t produce them. If the entheogenic constituent doesn’t have a vital function for the plant, why does it produce it? For the benefit of mankind? The answer to this question, which is founded in rituals where entheogenic intervene, constitutes a matter of belief.

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