David Alfaro Siqueiros, (Mexico, 1896-1974) Antenas estratosféricas / Stratospheric Antennas, 1949. Pyroxylin on masonite / Piroxilina sobre masonite, 100 x 123 x 20 cm. Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico.
Dec 1- 18, Shattered Glass: Rethinking the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil Collection, Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue, New York, NY.
Through the study of contemporary art and Mexican high modernist masterpieces in the collection of the Carrillo Gil Museum of Art, the curatorial team reexamines the artworks in a new context relating to the phenomena of violence throughout history and its realization in the visual arts. Through the study of recent Mexican, Latino, and Latin American art and Mexican high modernist masterpieces in the collection of the Carrillo Gil Museum of Art, the curatorial team reexamined a series of important pieces to reveal how bodies and ruins, placed together, relate to an established colonial narrative, making it possible to reassess the significance of images of violence in contemporary Mexican art and rewrite some of that narrative. Extremely brutal images, by such artists as Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros, were frequently designed as a commentary on metropolitan modernity. They form the core of the curatorial focus of the exhibition, which, along with the catalogue essays, will present these concepts from four vantage points, each represented by a section in the exhibition. Shattered Glass will be a central part of the events in the United States commemorating the bicentennial of the independence of Mexico and the anniversary of the Mexican revolution.
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- David Alfaro Siqueiros, Cain en los Estados Unidos/ Cain in the United States, 1947. Piroxilina on Wood, 76 x 92.8, Acervo CONA CULTA-IN BA / Museo de Arte Alvar y Carmen T de Carillo Gil, INBA.
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- David Alfaro Siqueiros, (Mexico, 1896-1974) Antenas estratosféricas / Stratospheric Antennas, 1949. Pyroxylin on masonite / Piroxilina sobre masonite, 100 x 123 x 20 cm. Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico.
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- David Alfaro Siqueiros, (Mexico, 1896-1974) Aeronave atómica, 1956. Piroxilina sobre madera, 98 x 122 x 19 cm. Colección Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, INBA.
