For Day of the Dead in 1986 , Felipe Linares was commissioned to commemorate the 1985 Mexico City earthquake . This resulted in called “ La Muerte Tembloroso ” ( Death in Tremors ) with over fifty life sized skeletons to represent key incidents with figures such as firemen , victims under rubble , injured people , soldiers and even a looter with a television set . One figure commemorates a person known as “ El Pulga ” ( the flea ) a skinny rescuer known for going into small spaces under collapsed buildings . The work was controversial at the time , but it was also used to raise money for the victims in Europe . The Linares family continue to export their work to the most important galleries showing Mexican art worldwide . One example was called " Beasts and Bones : The Cartonería of the Linares Family " was displayed in Carlsbad , California . The show featured about seventy alebrijes and was so popular that it was extended by several weeks . Works by the family have also been exhibited at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris , the British Museum , the Fowler Museum of Cultural History in Los Angeles and the Royal Museum of Modern Art in Glasgow
1985 Mexico City earthquake
1985 Mexico City earthquake
Linares family (alebrijes and cartonería)