Superposiciones: Latin American Art in Mexican Collections

The exhibition Superposiciones: Arte latinoamericano en colecciones mexicanas is at Museo Rufino Tamayo through September 20, 2015, featuring works from four of the most important collections of modern art, public of private: Museo Tamayo, Museo de Arte Moderno, FEMSA, and Colección Pérez Simón. Curated by James Oles, Superposiciones explores the dialogs that can be established between 56 works by 12 Latin American artists: Marcelo Bonevardi (Argentina), Claudio Bravo (Chile), Sergio de Camargo (Brazil), Arcangelo Ianelli (Brazil), Wifredo Lam (Cuba), Julio Le Parc (Argentina), Roberto Matta (Chile), Armando Morales (Nicaragua), Rogelio Polesello (Argentina), Omar Rayo (Colombia), Jesús Rafael Soto (Venezuela), and Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguay). More than a historical study or a rigorous examination of a specific artistic style, the exhibition emphasizes repetitions and interconnections as a diagnostic tool for four art collections. It reveals twelve points at which artistic or personal criteria overlap with those that went into shaping these modern art collections in Mexico, providing a different approach to the ways in which Latin American art is generally displayed, debated, and understood. Source: Museo Tamayo.