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SUSTAITA, Antonio  e  SUSTAITA, Liuva. Dialectics of emptiness: presence and absence in José Luis Romo’s masks. En-clav. pen [online]. 2018, vol.12, n.24, pp.34-56. ISSN 2594-1100.

The aim of this paper is to analyze an outstanding work of art: Jose Luis Romo’s masks. He is a very important otomi artist whose main work is about masks made out of brass and bunch of maguey. The artist has tried to set his work in a traditional, even though forgotten, ritual practice. Before the Spanish people came to America these masks of maguey bunch were part of a harvest ritual feast in Valle del Mezquital (Hidalgo, a central state of Mexico). In order to go on with the analysis of this masks we have developed a mask aesthetic and semiotic that points to the explanation of Romo’s mask as Works of art.

Palavras-chave : mask; aesthetic; mexican art.