Abstracción Posible / Abstract Possible

As part of the series of exhibitions Micro-Stories and Macro-Worlds at the Museo Rufino Tamayo, curator Maria Lind presents Abstracción Posible / Abstraction Possible, a project that will be developed for a period of two years, in collaboration with several venues through workshops, screenings, seminars, solo exhibitions, and a webpage. The group exhibition at the Museo Rufino Tamayo, that includes the participation of artists like Goldin+Senneby, Liam Gillick, Mai-Thu Perret, Seth Price, José León Cerrillo, and Claudia Fernández, among others, reassesses and reinterprets crucial aspects of the abstraction concept that, since the Twentieth Century, have been ignored by the predominant discourses. As an intellectual resource, self-reflection is one of the main characteristics of abstraction. The exhibition at the Museo Rufino Tamayo explores the intersection of three central ideas: abstraction as formal construction, economic abstraction, and the various withdrawal strategies found in today¿s culture. Abstracción Posible / Abstraction Possible empathizes the concept of retraction and proposes the possibility of a larger margin of freedom and creation of spaces for self-generating initiatives in the cultural production field. The exhibition is open to the public from March 26 to August 7, 2011.