Gabriel Macotela (Guadalajara, Jalisco 1954). He studied at the School of Painting and Sculpture “La Esmeralda”. Later he entered the National School of Plastic Arts of San Carlos, in Gilberto Aceves Navarro workshop. In 1977 he founds Cocina Ediciones and in 1985 the alternative bookstore El Archivero with Armando Sáenz and Yani Pecanins. Exhibitions: Casa del Lago, Mexico D.F. (1976). “Painting and Drawing”, Pecanins Gallery, Mexico D.F. (1978). House of Culture in Guadalajara and Monterrey (1978). “Actas”, Pecanins Gallery, Mexico D.F. (1979). “Urban Landscape”, Pecanins Gallery, Mexico D.F. (1980). “Walk through the mirror”, Pecanins Gallery, Mexico D.F. (1981). “Crossing: Fabrics, Pastels, Objects”, Pecanins Gallery, Mexico D.F. (1982). “Diario Horizonte”, Carrillo Gil Museum, Mexico D.F. (1983). “Laberinto, Puerta, Cerradura”, Pecanins Gallery, Mexico D.F. (1984). “Landscapes, House Plans”, Contemporary Art Gallery, Monterrey. San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California, E.U.A. Metropolitan Gallery, Mexico, D.F. (1985). “Broken City. Recent work “, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico, D.F. (1986). “Journey through the etceteras”, itinerant exhibition. Stations of the Metro of Mexico City (1986). “Skies and characters of the immersion”, Ceramics, engravings, cakes. Pecanins Gallery, Mexico, D.F. (1987). “La Sonora Industrial”, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico, D.F. (1988). “Personajes y su sombra”, Mexican Consulate in Barcelona (1989). “Buildings, Characters and their Shadow”, Juan Martín Gallery, Mexico, D.F. (1990). “Counting a little time in painting and sculpture”, ITESM Campus Estado de México (1993). “Selva”, recent work, Galería Juan Martín, Mexico, D.F. (nineteen ninety five). “Coin sewer. Our economy “, Carrillo Gil Art Museum, Mexico, D.F. (1997).