Observed arrival · 2026-10-29
Felipe Linares Mendoza and the cartonero tradition
A profile and archive tracing the Mexico City cartonero’s work, family lineage, techniques, and attributed pieces.
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- The page says Linares began working paper around age ten and describes cartonería as hand-modeled, hand-painted work without molds.
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The navigation separates biography, artisans, works, process, legacy, and archive, while the page identifies the family workshop as Merced Balbuena in Mexico City. It describes cartonería as paper modeled and painted by hand without molds, and gives the family line from Pedro Linares López through Felipe to his sons. Captions attribute stills to named documentary clips, including timestamps; the supplied extract does not reveal whether the archive includes fuller source citations.
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