ExhibitionFebruary 6, 2024
Beatriz González at the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC)
The Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) inaugurated "Guerra y paz: una poética del gesto," curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina and Natalia Gutiérrez. It is a milestone as the first monographic exhibition of the work of Beatriz González (Bucaramanga, Colombia, 1938) in Mexico. The exhibition has the dual objective of providing a panoramic overview of González's work and simultaneously proposing a renewed vision of the artist's oeuvre.
González's artistic production began in the 1960s with a proposal called "provincial" pop, where the artistic movement born in the industrialized and highly capitalist centers of the global north took on a providential character. It explored how references from the history of Western art intertwined with Latin American popular culture. In the 1980s, her work set aside humor and satire to comment on Colombian political life and explore how to portray the pain left by violence and war.
The MUAC exhibition proposes a renewed review of González's work, not limiting itself to viewing her work through the lens of Southern Pop but exploring how her work demonstrates the communicative power of figure and gesture. As the exhibition catalog, available for free download on the museum's website, states, "Tragedy or comedy, banality or fatality, the gestures that inhabit González's paintings do not consist of the chronicle of a humanity that is alien to us because of the brutality of its circumstances (...), they involve us in a feeling with the body (...) seeing the shadow of other human beings."
The exhibition can be visited until June 2024 at the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Av. Insurgentes Sur 3000, C.U., Coyoacán, CDMX, Mexico.
González's artistic production began in the 1960s with a proposal called "provincial" pop, where the artistic movement born in the industrialized and highly capitalist centers of the global north took on a providential character. It explored how references from the history of Western art intertwined with Latin American popular culture. In the 1980s, her work set aside humor and satire to comment on Colombian political life and explore how to portray the pain left by violence and war.
The MUAC exhibition proposes a renewed review of González's work, not limiting itself to viewing her work through the lens of Southern Pop but exploring how her work demonstrates the communicative power of figure and gesture. As the exhibition catalog, available for free download on the museum's website, states, "Tragedy or comedy, banality or fatality, the gestures that inhabit González's paintings do not consist of the chronicle of a humanity that is alien to us because of the brutality of its circumstances (...), they involve us in a feeling with the body (...) seeing the shadow of other human beings."
The exhibition can be visited until June 2024 at the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Av. Insurgentes Sur 3000, C.U., Coyoacán, CDMX, Mexico.
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