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At Museo Nacional de San Carlos
Historical presence of Flemish art masterpieces enriches Mexicos cultural offer
October 30, 2015It is an historic event, the Museo Nacional de San Carlos brings to the Mexican audience 59 Flemish painting masterpieces of the Gerstenmaier collection ever showed in our country before, through the exhibition From Rubens to Van Dyck, opened on Thursday October 29th.
The German collector Rudolf Gerstenmaier while visiting our country to present this great exhibition, celebrated that the collection that he began to acquire four decades ago and where legendary paintings, like the Virgin of Cumberland, in which Rubens painted his own son, or the portraits of Jean Charles de Cordes and Jacqueline van Caëstre, painted by Anton van Dyck, can be viewed in Mexico in a building with such tradition as the Museo Nacional de San Carlos.
From Rubens to Van Dyck is part of the circuit of major international exhibitions held by the National Council for Culture and Arts (CONACULTA), headed by Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, to enrich the national cultural offer, among they are: Vanguardia rusa, el vértigo del futuro (Russian avant-garde, vertigo future) at the Palace Museum of Fine Arts, or the recently concluded Lo Terrenal y lo Divino: arte islámico del s. VII al XIX (The earthly and the divine: Islamic art from the seventh to nineteenth centuries) and Yo, el Rey. La monarquía hispánica en el arte ( I, the king. The Spanish monarchy in art).
Maria Cristina Garcia Cepeda, director of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA), thanked the support of the board of Museo de San Carlos and its director, Lorenzo Lazo, for the presentation of this exhibition and celebrated that 18 of the most significant Flemish painters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, who lived a rebirth with the political and economic situation that Spain had at that time, are in the same building together.
Carmen Gaitán, director of the Museo Nacional de San Carlos, said that the Mexican audience will have the opportunity to enjoy the pieces that marked the art of its time through the sensitivity and talent of the great exponents that gave life to Flemish movement, with all its colors and symbolism, the same that will be a great discovery and an unforgettable experience for visitors to the museum.
During the tour, other works of great importance for universal art were appreciated, like the large format oil painting, Allegory of human creation by Adrian of Gryef, considered one of the most beautiful representations of Adam and Eve, full of flora and fauna; the still-life painting by Jan van Kessel The old and the oil painting, Mountain Landscape with Mules, painted in collaboration between Joost de Momper the Younger and Jan Brueghel the Elder.
From Rubens to Van Dyck is exhibited at the Museo Nacional de San Carlos until 27 March 2016. Puente de Alvarado 50, Colonia Tabacalera.
Mexico,Distrito Federal
