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The pending exhibition 1973-2015 settles a chapter in the history of Mexico and Chile
November 19, 2015It is considered an exhibition showed as one of the most important historical, political and artistic events in recent years, The pending exhibition 1973-2015, made up of 76 works, starts on November 19 at the museum of the Palace of Fine Arts in Chile. This exhibit reminds that great one curated by Fernando Gamboa in Chile that could not be displayed due to the coup of September 11, 1973.
Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, president of the National Council for Culture and Arts (CONACULTA), said that this exhibition renews ties of friendship between the two nations
He recalled the spirit of the exhibition organized at that time with works by Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros, which now offers an historical context of the events that lived Fernando Gamboa and Gonzalo Martinez Corbalá, then ambassador of Mexico in Chile, to return the pieces to our country.
During the press conference that was attended by the former Ambassador Martinez Corbalá whom the head of Conaculta described as a legend of Mexican diplomacy, who during the coup helped more than 800 Chilean housing them in the Mexican embassy itself.
“He was directly responsible of the freedom and the lives of many Chileans who would have had a sad end, a fact that is remembered as part of that time and addressed in The pending exhibition 1973-2015”.
The exhibit will consist of a selection of works of the Cubist period of Diego Rivera, as Maternidad (Maternity) and El arquitecto (The architect); and 22 pieces of David Alfaro Siqueiros, which includes his famous Zapata, Study for the mural of Chapultepec Castle, and works of José Clemente Orozco, like El fusilado (The one shot), Pancho Villa and Cristo destruye su cruz (Christ destroys his cross), among others.
On his behalf, Undersecretary of Planning, Evaluation and Educational Policy of the SEP, Otto Granados Roldán, recalled that since Gabriela Mistral came to collaborate with José Vasconcelos in the first half of the twentieth century, cultural relations between Mexico and Chile have been very close, an issue that in the seventies was complicated by the coup, which is detailed in Ambassador Gonzalo Martinez Corbalá's book, Momentos de decisión (Moments of decisión).
He explained that under the restoration of diplomatic relations between Mexico and Chile, in the early nineties, this exhibition became a symbol of that era, which is told in the documentary Memorias del asilo. Chilenos en la Embajada de México. (Memories of asylum. Chilean at Embassy of Mexico), which will be presented November 20 at the Cineteca Nacional of the Andean country.
Finally Vania Rojas, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Alvar and Carmen T. de Carrillo Gil, said that among the fun facts of this exhibition is the fact that the text of the catalog was written by the poet, Pablo Neruda few days before his death .
"It will certainly be an exhibition that will touch sensibilities, memories and ties of friendship between our nations," he said.
Mexico,Distrito Federal
