(b. Mexico City, Mexico, 1938).
A contemporary of Francisco Toledo (b. 1940), Alfredo Castañeda avoids the artisanal textures that many Mexican artists have inherited from Rufino Tamayo, yet refers to the Pre-Columbian past in other ways. His work shows the European influence of René Magritte, as it presents absurd visual paradoxes. Stylistically, Castañeda references folk art and the naiveté found in the work of Hermengildo Bustos (1832-1907). He repeats themes found in Pre-Columbian pottery but adds impossible aspects to these subjects; such in his self-portrait, The Great Birth (1983), in which he is shown giving birth to himself. His first solo exhibition was held at the Galería de Arte Mexicano in Mexico City in 1969, and in 1990 the Museo de Monterrey in Mexico held a retrospective of his work.His most recent solo exhibitions include; 1999 Nuestro yo y mi nosotros (Our I and My We) , Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art, New York; 1997 <
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