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The great Mexican muralist, David Alfaro Siqueiros, developed what he called “sculpainting”, to intensify the effects of the mural, which meant working reliefs on the walls that he would later paint over, using plaster, asbestos, cement or other materials. Rogelio Manzo’s intentions are sculptural too, yet he has reduced the sculptural volumes to layers that use whatever medium to add form until he achieves the final piece that he transforms into ultra low reliefs, textured and with many visual levels, transparencies and backgrounds. What Manzo has done therefore is to reinvent the low relief …