Mexico: A Revolution in Art, 1910-1940

Mexico: A Revolution in Art, 1910-1940
Royal Academy of Arts

"Mexico is truly the promised land of Abstract Art" (Josef Albers)

Diego Rivera, Dance in Tehuantepec (Baile in Tehuantepec), 1928.
Oil on canvas, 200.7 x 163.8 cm. Collection of Clarissa and Edgar Bronfman Jr. Photo Collection of Clarissa and Edgar Brontman Jr., courtesy of Sotheby's, New York / © 2013 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / DACS.

[Mexico] "is not a curiosity to be visited but a life to be lived" (Henri Cartier-Bresson)

«Royal Academy's Mexican revolution misses the bigger picture: Modernist Mexico's greatest artistic idea was mural painting on a gargantuan scale. But this show is confined to the attic», by Jonathan Jones at The Guardian, Tuesday 9 July 2013.

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Melanie Smith (Poole, England, in 1965) is representing Mexico at the 54 La Biennale di Venezia, in 2011

«Since 1989 Melanie Smith has lived and worked in Mexico City, an experience that has enormously influenced her works ever since. Her work has been characterized by a certain re-reading of the formal and aesthetic categories of avant-gardes and post-avant-garde movements, problematized at the sites and within the horizons of heterotopias. Her production is intimately related to a certain expanded vision of the notion of modernity, maintaining a relationship both with what this means in Latin America, particularly in Mexico, and with the implication this has for her formal explorations as a critical moment in the aesthetic-political structure of modernity and late modernity [...]

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Ruido Rosa
Dentro
2010