For Covarrubias from Guadalajara

A Mexican artist holds an exhibition in Ubud in memory of Miguel Covarrubias. He paints on the paper that he has made himself.

July 5, 2005

FOR Sergio Lopez Orozc, 59, Covarrubias is an obsession. He and Covarrubias share a common family name in Guadalajara. Orozco, however, has a different reason for his fascination with Covarrubias.

Orozco read Island of Bali when he was still a senior high school student. The book was compulsory for anthropology students in Mexico. Orozco himself has, since his youth, imagined the similarities between Bali and ancient Mexico, particularly regardin

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