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If nobody guarantees tomorrow, today becomes immense.
—Carlos Monsiváis
I really don't know how to plot the limits between pop art and the naif in the work of Barry Wolfryd. His art grew first in his native Los Angeles, a city that slowly has become almost a part of Mexico since it holds more Mexicans than any other city after our own monstrous capital. This alone was enough to make Wolfryd’s art a hybrid. But he came to live in Mexico, just when our own culture appeared to be invaded and transfigured by the media culture of North America. So it seems that his …