Curated by Marco Klefisch and Alberto Scabbia, “THE ART AND LIFE OF CHAZ BOJÓRQUEZ” is the first monograph about Chaz Bojórquez, the artist that has influenced whole generations of street artists, writers and tattooists.

His symbol or “tag”, created in 1969, a stylised skull called Senor Suerte inspired by Mexican folklore and especially by the cult of Holy Death, it is one of the first examples of stencil art applied to the street and it subsequently became an image for protection against death among the street gangs. Bojórquez was one of the first writers to employ special typographical characters, creating an original synthesis of psychedelic style, Fraktur and Chinese calligraphy. Bojórquez was also one of the first to pass successfully from street art to the galleries: today his works are in the permanent collections of American museums such as the National Museum of American Art and the Orange County Museum of Art, inasmuch as they are considered expressions of South Californian Latino culture.

The book is in three sections: the first opens with introductory texts by Greg Escalante, François Chastanet and the editors, followed by an interview in which Chaz Bojórquez goes back over the milestones in his artistic formation. The second part deals with Bojórquez’s drawings and works in black and white, while the third is dedicated to his paintings. The editors have also included several photographs that document certain crucial moments in the artist’s life.

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