ARTIST STATEMENT:

Juan Manuel Rocha Espinosa de los Monteros, better well-known by its pseudonym: “Kin Kin”, was born in the Capital City of Northern America, which in some time, after the fusion of two very different cultures and cosmogonías, denominate “the New Spain”: Mexico City; in the navel of the country, rich and beautiful, like a great horn of the Abundance. It makes his first studies and it begins to develop his artistic abilities in that great metropolis. A day, thanks to his brother the Journalist Jorge Rocha, of happy memory, knows the Caricaturist Abel Quezada, green man without fault to that admires, follows in his “cardboards” on “Excelsior”. Quezada animates the young Kin Kin to continue drawing and drawing, because Kin Kin as many others suffer of the “Graphology”, disease, that consists of drawing and drawing, compulsively everything and in everything what it is possible to be drawn, napkins, table cloths, notebooks, etc.
Kin Kin decides to follow the passages of its Teacher Abel and to become, someday in Caricaturist, like him and thus to be member of that select group of “the Green Men”. Abel said that the Artists and sure the Caricaturists, we are like the Bearded Woman or the Green Man of the Circuses: we are only, singular and in addition, thanks to our characteristics, gifts and mañas, Bearded she and that Green one. Single for that reason, hirsuto of that and the green thing of that, or in our case, the knowledge to paint or to draw emphasizes to us. , Yes Green, always we will have work and call the attention of between the rest of the mortals. Green men in Mexico have been them to piles, but we mention some: Abel Quezada, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varos, Jose Luis Cuevas and many others, of green only, iridiscente, a magical one and that astonish to the orb with their trowels of light and mystery.
In 1982 KinKin moves to live in the border city of Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico: The Great and most visited Border in the Earth (really, dont jocking,) but noble and loving that exists in all cosmos. In Tijuana they invented the Famous Salad “Cesar´s” and the rich Burritos of all Mexico: “The Burritos Corona”.
In Tijuana, besides to eat salads,Burritos and tacos, it studies Architecture and Sacred Art and initiates his long walks within the Art. It is in Tijuana where it initiates to work in local and later national newspapers as Political Caricaturist, Infantile and illustrative Caricaturist. One becomes professional and one gets up the Mexican Society of Caricaturists in where it unites friendship with the already faumos Rius, Arturo Kemchs, the close colleague and Cuban friend Arístides Hernandez “Ares”, and many more, but that it could not finish enlisting and that also are green, that although is Caricaturists of complete Time and sees the life with humor, are of verdísimo special, very serious.
Nowadays, it is in the desert, between the calcinante sun and a Barbarian and noble town: Chihuahua, Chih., Mexico. It is there where, of self-taught form, beginning its task like professional Painter. Given to the censorship that its work as Caricaturist suffered, decided to leave it, professionally, by a time, to dedicate itself to the Painting, it´s great passion. Its work, as much of caricaturist as of painter, in its most personal style of “Caricaturismo”, flood of irreverencia, sarcasm, criticizes, humor and truth, in addition to a good dose of imagination, it has exposed so much local, national and internationally.
Clear that Kin Kin has competed in which another contest, and some mention has taken. But what if, its work never happens unnoticed, due to its singular style to make painting with irony, humor, satire and cartoon. It is member of number of the Society of Caricaturists of Mexico and of the School of Architects of Chihuahua. Kin Kin is plenty of projects and ideas which day to day in its Canvas shapes, for approval of some, joy of others and delights of but, but mainly to full fill that tremendous necessity, to paint, to do, day to day, the love to the Cavas, filling it of caresses, with a small brush, a pile of colors, real passion and, yes, so much Love.