kurimanzutto - minerva cuevas at beyond borders, the museum of sketches.

minerva cuevas at beyond borders, the museum of sketches.

The Museum of Sketches’ unique, comprehensive, collection of sketches to Mexican public art is now shown in a new context, with new prerequisites. Several works have been taken out from the archives and re-arranged, whereby the older works are now displayed in the new spacious exhibition halls together with the works of contemporary Mexican artists, working within the public space.

The colourful scenes in mural painting from the history of Mexico and the depiction of a modern, developing society, were to fill public spaces and buildings all around in Mexico – from the 1920’s and far into our own days. The country had undergone a period of upheaval, during which artists became engaged in work with creating images of the political and cultural vision. Art was given the explicit task of being an instrument for general adult educational and propaganda. It was through the following three artists Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siquieros and Clemente Orozco that Mexican art came to be an expression for a new, expanding, post-colonial world, during the last century. The image was of a world where the Indians, the indigenous population’s culture would have a role in the creation of a modern nation.

Today, society continuously extends its boundaries for production, consumption, distribution, and accommodation. Art has also received a new mobility and new expressions through internet and digital technology. Rivera, Siquieros and Orozco, were able to cross the borders between north and south, between Mexico and the U.S.A., with the power and engagement that their art possessed. However, they also had international connections, which stretched far across the globe. Several of the artists in the Exhibition examine the confrontation and the violence which characterizes Mexico today, and which is about the problem of the borders with its drug trading, and migration. But as in the beginning of the previous century, in the 21st century artists are now working with creating visions, analyzing visual events, and exceeding boundaries in the extensive meaning of the word; where dreams and poetic expressions are also manifestations of art. Hence our Exhibition is called Beyond Borders

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	Carlos Amorales Manifesta 9