AnniversaryFebruary 18, 2022
40 years Museo Tamayo
The Museo Tamayo to celebrate its 40th anniversary and the reopening after seven months of maintenance and improvement works, as part of the project Chapultepec. Nature and Culture, the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Mexico, through the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature (INBAL), exhibit until April 30 the exhibition "Beyond the Trees" and presents "40 x 40 +".
"40 x 40 +" is a limited series of posters created by more than forty Mexican and international artists who have been a fundamental part of the Museo Tamayo's programming in its #Casi40 years and who have supported by donating their work to celebrate the 40th anniversary.
The exhibition "Beyond the Trees" traces those historical, political, and cultural events that marked the years that encompassed the construction and opening of the Museo Tamayo (1979-1981) through five exhibition nuclei that occupy all the museum's spaces.
The first nucleus recovers some events in the life and work of Rufino Tamayo, more specifically his retrospective exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1979, which coincided with his 80th birthday. The second core, from which this project takes its title, reviews the artistic and social complexities behind the opening of this institution. In the manner of a political play in which each person, object, or vestige takes on a voice, artist Erick Meyenberg presents a visual and sound composition that reveals the narratives found in the museum's newspaper archive, which converged during the inaugural event and reverberated through its mediatization.
The third core explores the selection criteria used by Rufino Tamayo to form the museum's founding collection, how they dialogue with both the building that houses it and the work of the Oaxacan painter, and how they mark a turning point between modernism and the period that succeeded it. The fourth nucleus refers to the relationship between art and television, taking the museum's first years as a starting point between 1981 and 1986 when Televisa financed its administration and programming. It is also a reflection on how artists in Mexico and abroad used the mass media to question their messages, experiment with technology, and find new languages for creation.
The fifth nucleus goes through the different rooms through a series of works produced between 1979 and 1981 that have set the tone for cultural production, mainly in the United States, Europe, and Latin America.
"40 x 40 +" is a limited series of posters created by more than forty Mexican and international artists who have been a fundamental part of the Museo Tamayo's programming in its #Casi40 years and who have supported by donating their work to celebrate the 40th anniversary.
The exhibition "Beyond the Trees" traces those historical, political, and cultural events that marked the years that encompassed the construction and opening of the Museo Tamayo (1979-1981) through five exhibition nuclei that occupy all the museum's spaces.
The first nucleus recovers some events in the life and work of Rufino Tamayo, more specifically his retrospective exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1979, which coincided with his 80th birthday. The second core, from which this project takes its title, reviews the artistic and social complexities behind the opening of this institution. In the manner of a political play in which each person, object, or vestige takes on a voice, artist Erick Meyenberg presents a visual and sound composition that reveals the narratives found in the museum's newspaper archive, which converged during the inaugural event and reverberated through its mediatization.
The third core explores the selection criteria used by Rufino Tamayo to form the museum's founding collection, how they dialogue with both the building that houses it and the work of the Oaxacan painter, and how they mark a turning point between modernism and the period that succeeded it. The fourth nucleus refers to the relationship between art and television, taking the museum's first years as a starting point between 1981 and 1986 when Televisa financed its administration and programming. It is also a reflection on how artists in Mexico and abroad used the mass media to question their messages, experiment with technology, and find new languages for creation.
The fifth nucleus goes through the different rooms through a series of works produced between 1979 and 1981 that have set the tone for cultural production, mainly in the United States, Europe, and Latin America.
