Mexico: A Revolution in Art 1910 - 1940
This exhibition, to be held between June 6th and September 29th, 2014, will analyze an important thirty-year period of visual arts production in Mexico in the early Twentieth Century. The period of great upheaval between 1910 an 1920, which generated profound political and cultural changes, was also a moment of great artistic flourishing in the country, with the visual arts playing a central role. In this era, which many consider of a "cultural renaissance", the Public Education Ministry employed artists in ambiguous projects designed to promote the revolution's ideology.
The show explores the oeuvre of local and foreign artists whose works were created in the same political and historical context. The work of celebrated Mexican artists like Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros is presented alongside that of other impacted by the Mexican experience at the time, among them Josef Albers, Edward Burra, Philip Guston, Marsden Hartley, Paul Strand, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Henrietta Shore, Leon Underwood, Tina Modotti y Edward Weston. The exhibition is a reflection of the turbulent social environment in which these figures, all landmarks of Twentieth Century art, interacted, highlighting their different responses to the same topic: Mexico.
For more information, visit: http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/mexico/
