Pedro Friedeberg, "Hairless Hearts Of Some Hairy Nuns"

My step-father bought this crazy Pedro Friedeberg painting in 1966 in Mexico City. It's ink and paint on board, and the title is Hairless Hearts Of Some Hairy Nuns.

Here's a large detail of the central rooster, who is saying "Pseudo-Cybernetics."

Friedeberg is an esoteric, dada-esque, surrealist probably best known for his large, hand-shaped chairs. He seems like quite a character, sort of a Mexican Dali making spritist Vasarelys.

Hairless Hearts... was included in an exhibition at the Antonio Souza Gallery organized as a cultural sidebar to the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.



Here is a list of the other paintings in the show:

• "A Machine Made to Frighten Tailors (Also Can Be Used To Slice Water)"


• "Luis XIV's Discotheque"


• "Tehuana Orphanage"


• "Confessions of An Iconoclastic Sea-Urchin"


• "Madame De Pompadour's Electric Chair"


• "The Aristocrats' Lighthouse"


• "The Head of "Chez Twiggy," An Old Peoples' Home, In Her Pseudo-Cybernetics Style Uniform, ORders The Immediate Expulsion Of All False Optimists, In Inverse Alphabetical Order"


• "Good Morning, Miss Watermelon"


• "The Pockmarked Czarina Becomes Indignant Over The Statistics Presented By The Minister of Oceans And Clouds During A Round-Table Discussion On Eskimo Astrology At The Congress of Natural and Applied Pornography"


• Left Hand of the Viceroy Gumersidno Sirloin and The Hand of His Niece The Disreputable Marchioness Brujulilla De Bourbon"


• "Paganini's Bath"


• "What We Found In Aristotle's Pyjamas"


• "Orphanage for Squint-Eyed Children Sponsored By Baron Von Pipian"


• "Socrates' Garbage Pail"


• "An Hermaphrodite Baby Elephant Learning Russian"


• "Afternoon Outing Of Little Beige Riding Hood"