BRIAN MAGURE – Anna Maria Gardea Villalobos 1997 2009. (Click on image to enlarge).
THE renowned Irish Expressionist artist Brian Maguire has an unusually challenging exhibition now on show at the European Parliament in Brussels. Femicide/Juarez is made up of portraits of young female factory workers who have been abused and murdered since 1993. The artist spent the past three years researching with families women murdered in the State of Chihuahua, Mexico. The result is a series of portraits of the young women. Femicide describes the murders of women and girls in Ciudad Juarez and the impunity that goes with it. Since 1993 more than 370 young women and girls have been murdered in the cities of Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua. The products made by these factory workers are in cars and television sets across Europe.
Brian Maguire’s work connects with human rights. He is in public collections including including the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas, the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), the Alvar Aalto Museum, Finland, the Wolverhampton Arts + Museum, England, the Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane and the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands. He is represented by the Kerlin Gallery in Dublin. The Brussels exhibition is hosted by the Irish MEP Emer Costello of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats in the European Parliament.