Pedro Friedeberg

He is an artist and designer from Mexico of Italian origin, son of a German-Jewish family.
He did not grow up with the Jewish religion but with atheism, although he was once taken by a servant to a secret church to be baptized. Friedeberg says that, thanks to all these experiences, he has seven religions: one for each day of the week.

 

His work caught the attention of Mathias Goeritz who encouraged him to continue his career as an artist. Friedeberg became part of a group of Mexican surrealist artists, among whom were Leonora Carrington and Alicia Rahon, distinguished by their irreverence, rejecting the social and political art that was dominant at that time. Friedeberg has achieved the reputation of eccentric and affirms that the art has died because nothing new has been produced.