Rafael Cauduro

Escenarios subterráneos by Rafael Cauduro, is the mural installed in one of the busiest neural points of the city: the Insurgentes Metro station.

The artist's idea was to represent typical aspects, both material and cultural, of the London and Paris subways (the oldest in the world) to accompany subway users in a way that crosses time and space alongside ghostly characters who also await the arrival of the train in the midst of deterioration.

In order to access you must pay the cost of a subway trip of $5 pesos, from Monday to Sunday, from 7 a.m. to midnight.

Within the framework of the exhibition Un Cauduro es un Cauduro ( es a Cauduro) at the Colegio de San Ildefonso, which pays homage to the career of Rafael Cauduro, the Cauduro Studio has planned a tour that anyone can take through Mexico City to soak up the artistic landscape that Cauduro has created and that can be easily found around us.

• “Un Cauduro es un Cauduro (es a Cauduro)” is one of the most relevant exhibitions within the 2022 cultural agenda in Mexico City – inaugurated within the framework of the 100 years of muralism in Mexico and open to the public until June 26– where you will find more than 156 works of art with a style and techniques that you will not forget –many never before exhibited and part of the artist's personal collection– and where the deterioration evidences the complex testimony left by the passage of time.

Hours and prices: from 11:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Wednesday to Saturday $50.00 MXN. Sunday free entry. Colegio de San Ildefonso, Justo Sierra 16, Historic Center of Mexico City.

• “The 7 Major Crimes”, by Rafael Cauduro, can be visited at the Nation’s Supreme Court of Justice, located at José María Pino Suárez 2, next to the National Palace. The most iconic work of Rafael Cauduro, and probably one of the most controversial, made on the main steps of the Supreme Court of Justice, "The 7 Major Crimes", where the artist captured a reminder inside the enclosure for all those who seek justice in our country about what can happen in a nation in which the rights and security of people are not sought, representing major crimes in the history of justice in Mexico.

Monday, Wednesday and Friday: 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Entry only by appointment. Book by email: visitas@mail.scjn.gob.mx. Tel: 55.41.13.10.00. Extensions: 5820,5811 and 5803. Maximum 20 people per group. José María Pino Suárez 2, Historic Center of Mexico City.

• “Subterranean Stages”, by Rafael Cauduro, is the mural installed in one of the busiest neural points of the city: the Insurgentes Metro station. The artist's idea was to represent typical aspects, both material and cultural, of the London and Paris subways (the oldest in the world) to accompany subway users in a way that crosses time and space alongside ghostly characters who also await the arrival of the train in the midst of deterioration.

In order to access you must pay the cost of a subway trip of $5 pesos, from Monday to Sunday, from 7 a.m. to midnight. Avenida Insurgentes Sur, corner with Avenida Cuauhtémoc, Colonia Roma Norte, Mexico City.

• “El Condominio”, by Rafael Cauduro, located in the Cauduro Building (Avenida Veracruz 62, Colonia Condesa), is a mural that shows a portrait of Mexican society that incorporates different characters – the writer and linguist Ernesto de la Peña (1927 -2012) using a laptop in a corner, surrounded by books, the greedy man who keeps his money in a hole in the wall or the one who reads the newspaper sitting on the toilet, the neighbor who spies on a woman when she showers, like this like children looking from the windows of their apartments – with the unmistakable technique of the teacher, who represents the situations and problems of a typical Mexico City neighborhood.

Veracruz Avenue 62, Roma Norte, Mexico City. If you decide to enter the Filigrana restaurant you will be able to enjoy this mural with greater attention. Monday to Friday, from 1 pm to 12 pm, Saturdays from 9 am to 12 pm and Sundays from 9 am to 5 pm.