Un Lugar Fuera de la Historia

The group exhibition entitled Un Lugar Fuera de la Historia (A Place Outside of History) at the Museo Rufino Tamayo presents works by artists such as Francis Alÿs, Olivier Debroise, Harun Farocki, Jill Magid, Tina Modotti, Melvin Moti, Nedko Solakov, Hito Steyerl, Simon Starling, Domingo Malagón-Alea, and Han Van Meegeren, as well as other works from the Whitney Museum of American Art. The exhibition is proposed as a tribune, or as a stage on which a series of narrations converge, where false identities, secrete agendas, official versions, and half-truths play an active role¿although nearly always behind the scenes¿in defining certain political landscapes and movements. By revealing a series of historical coincidences and ideological differences, the exhibition's narrative constructions and mediatic restitutions have successfully blurred the lines between the inside and outside of history, between fiction and reality. The works presented convey the misfortunes and setbacks in the lives and works of legendary personalities and institutions that are key to the history of Modern Art, such as Tina Modotti, Domingo Malagón-Alea, Anthony Blunt, Han Van Meegeren, the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. With a curatorship by Magalí Arriola¿in collaboration with Magnolia de la Garza¿the exhibition, the third in the series entitled Microhistorias y Macromundos, will remain open until March 6, 2011.