Museo Xul Solar

The Museo Xul Solar celebrates its 25 years of existence with a new curatorial narrative conceived by Cecilia Rabossi, curator of the magnificent 2017 exhibition titled "Xul Solar Panactivista" at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, in Buenos Aires. Located in part of the estate of Xul Solar (Argentina, 1887-1963), the building was revamped by the Fundación Pan Klub, an institution dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of the work by this extraordinary Argentinean artist born with the name Oscar Agustín Alejandro Schulz Solar. The architectural renovation of the building offers with its stairs and twists and turns similarities to the work by Xul Solar. The library, which contains the armchair used by Jorge Luis Borges when he visited the artist, along with other personal objects, are not displayed to the public. Watercolors and temperas rendered with a symphony of translucent colors, objects, masks, manuscripts, illustrations, photographs, and personal documents populate the walls and museum cabinets of a painter who was also a musician, writer, astrologer, and philologist. Several other interests of his, which also included architecture, mathematics, law, philosophy, anatomy, as well as the invention of religions, musical instruments, languages (Panlanguage and Neocreole), games (panchess), puppets, pictorial systems, and theatrical techniques are also on display—including a strange piano that can still be played. To create his work, this leading figure of the Argentinean vanguard of the 20th century relied on certain forms of abstraction generated by mystic visions that revealed an inclination towards the esoteric. Among other things, the exhibition emphasizes Xul Solar's interests in spirituality and astrology (very fashionable in the current Buenos Aires art scene). Among the many examples of this included in the show, there is the astral chart that the artist created for his friend Jorge Luis Borges. In 1949, the great Argentinean writer said the following about Xul Solar: "A man well-versed in all the disciplines, curious about all arcana, father of writings, languages, utopias, mythologies, (…) Xul Solar is one of the most singular events of our era (…) His paintings are documents of the extraterrestrial world." The Museo Xul Solar is located on Laprida 1212, in Buenos Aires.