Starting this Thursday, the National, Diego Rivera, Paul Westheim and Justino Fernández rooms of the Palacio de Bellas Artes will be occupied by more than 500 masterpieces of Mexican popular art that are the product of the individual and collective creation of 45 indigenous peoples of Mexico in the exhibition Art of the peoples of Mexico. indigenous disruptions.
All of them come from more than 50 collections in the country, including the Roberto Montenegro Collection, of the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature (INBAL); those of the National Museum of Anthropology, the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples (INPI), the Franz Mayer Museum, the National Museum of Popular Cultures and the “Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo” home study museum, as well as Fomento Cultural Citibanamex – whose collection is on sale now — including institutions and private collections.
During the opening ceremony of the exhibition, Wednesday evening, the director of INBAL, Lucina Jiménez, recalled that it was in 1934 in the same room that the Museum of Popular Arts came to life, which was then directed by Roberto Montenegro himself, but, with his disappearance in the 1940s, he said, “the worlds were divided and nationalism was certainly fed, but without the peoples.”
The exhibition, he added, “questions the unique reading of our history, of our culture. Instead, with respect and love, it recognizes, celebrates, honors, and enhances the contribution of community building in shaping the diverse Mexico we are. ” He added that the sample is presented from an aesthetic discourse away from any ethnographic or folklore vision. “It is a milestone in the history of art and museums in Mexico and expresses an ethical, aesthetic and political point of view. It is an act of justice. “
Reconfigure the aesthetic look
Featuring pieces by popular masters such as Salvador Xharicata, Noé Martínez, Octavio Aguilar, Yutsil, Fernando Palma, Demián Flores, Giovanni Fabián Guerrero, Kayúm Ma’ax, Saúl Kak, PH Joel, Maruch Sántiz, Ceci Gómez, Ana Guisu, Ana. Hernández and Baldomero Robles, the exhibition is divided into six thematic cores covering post-revolutionary nationalism, the foundations of popular art through pre-Spanish techniques and the subsequent influence of industrialization, the struggle for independence from European hegemonic aesthetics and contemporary work, as well as the utilitarian and ceremonial function of popular art.
The curator of the exhibition, Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera, explained that the central idea of the curatorial concept is to equate indigenous art with the rest of Mexican art.
“We have to start seeing art outside the canons of the West. It can not be that such a small group notices the visual linearity of 7,000 million people, we must understand that what we are going to see here are all works of art, it constitutes a fully structured cognitive and philosophical visual structure, with truly extraordinary pieces, ”said the curator.
In one part of the sample, he explained, an aesthetic comparison is made, face-to-face, between huipiles and plastic paintings. “It’s the canvases against the canvases and that’s the idea. “Both are paintings, both have a voice and knowledge”, said the curator.
Another auction in Paris
In that ceremony, Federal Minister of Culture Alejandra Frausto Guerrero reiterated her call to join the fight against speculation about the country’s cultural heritage abroad. This on the eve of a new auction of 34 heritage pieces from our country that will be held this Friday at the Millon House in Paris, under the name “Carnet de Voyage – Opening Season Sale”.
“Our heritage is still being auctioned and sold in Europe and above all in France. Our heritage is not for sale, it is not a luxury item to decorate a house. These are witnesses who must again be in conversation with the cultures that are heirs of these civilizations. “We are fighting a serious battle to demand that these auctions stop,” he said.
Among the pieces to be auctioned this Friday, January 28, are anthropomorphic and zoomorphic sculptures, as well as Teotihuacan, Maya, Chinese and Western Mexican cultural vessels, ranging from 50 to 8,000 euros.
“It is a looting. “Despite the fact that in its legislation (that of France) which is legal, it is not ethical and we will continue to fight,” the official concluded, asking to join the #MiPatrimonioNoSeVende campaign.
The nuclei in which the sample is divided:
- The revolutionary aesthetic utopia
- the face of a people
- interruptions and confluences
- aesthetic independence
- art for life
- Resistances and resonances
Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx