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Made up of over 90 pieces
The Palace of Fine Arts invites you to take a walk around the strange and the fabulous.
March 08, 2018The exhibition Hybrids. The body as imaginary, made up of 96 works that show fantasy beings in which the human kingdom extends when combined with other species and genres, is running from March 9 to May 27 at the Palace of Fine Arts.
Sphinxes, mermaids, minotaurs, angels and monsters are presented in a great variety of works, from the anthropological and artistic point of view, which show that these hybrid beings still have a great importance in our cultural imaginary.
Xavier Guzmán, deputy general director of Patrimonio Artístico Inmueble at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA), said that this exhibition "promotes a reflection on the multiple ways in which human beings have manipulated, transformed and fused their bodies to project, question themselves and find, in the reflection of the other, their own identity and where the monstrous, the strange and the fabulous become esthetic expressions".
In this exhibition, which will be opened on the night of Thursday, March 8, the public will be able to enjoy a selection of transformed beings from the mixture of human, animal and vegetable traits by some of the most prestigious national and international artists, such as Francisco Toledo, Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, Francis Bacon, Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall.
Organized by the Palace of Fine Arts and the National Anthropology Museums, in collaboration with the Musée de l' Elysée in Switzerland, Hybrids is made up of 96 pieces of painting, sculpture, masks, puppets, photography and art object from 40 collections and museums, including the Louvre in Paris, the MoMA in New York and the Reina Sofía in Madrid.
Tatyana Franck, director of the Musée de l' Elysée, pointed out that it is a matter of showing how far the kingdom of humanity extends and where the other begins, through the hybrid creatures that in art invite us to map again the relations between species and genres, but also to travel in time and space.
And it is because, hybrids pass over all the walls of our imagination, so they are a symbol of the great capacity that human beings have to project themselves outside of themselves, since even from the Palaeolithic there is a painting of a man with a lion's head, he said.
With this exhibition, the aim is not only to question the magnetism generated by hybrid creatures, but also to debate the identity and redefinition of humanity, as well as to pay homage to the Mexican director Guillermo del Toro, who has just won an Oscar for The Shape of Water, a movie that tells the love story between a hybrid creature and a woman.
The director of the Palace of Fine Arts Museum, Miguel Fernández, said that Hybrids has three thematic cores: Cartography of the living, shows how the fusion of beings has evolved in four continents.
In Nature and humanity, the public will appreciate the combination of the human with the plant and animal, in addition to the Greco-Roman mythology and the Judeo-Christian part and finally in Subversive hybridization, the most contemporary of the 19th and 20th centuries appears, which is more an experimental reflection, up to the idea of man-machine.
Hybrids. The body as imaginary will also make a connection between the Palace of Fine Arts and the National Museum of Anthropology, since as Antonio Saborit, director of this building, pointed out, there will be an added tour, since they will stand out special pieces from the collection that show this type of creatures with special certificates.
The exhibition welcomes the visitor with Los mutantes, a piece of contemporary art by Pedro Reyes that shows beings like in a periodic table and then in a vestibule, with sophisticated enveloping projections, presents the prehistoric part of the fantasy beings.
A Zapotec God-Bat, an Egyptian sphinx, anthropozoomorphic sculptures, masks, drums and totems from different cultures, give way to works such as some studies by Charles Le Brun, from the Louvre Museum, which present human heads in relation to wolves and foxes, as well as photographs and petrified skeletons of hydropitecos, a species of aquatic mammals.
Pieces such as: Portrait of the Devil by Rufino Tamayo, Paradise by Marc Chagall, The temptations of Saint Anthony by Diego Rivera, The Kiss by Pablo Picasso, Two Figures with a Monkey by Francis Bacon and Two Women by Francisco Toledo, are also part of the exhibition.
A sculpture of a dog man and a table wolf, close the exhibition whose latest pieces surprise the visitor as Psycogeography, a glass collage by Dustin Yellin like a human sculpture and a mural of stamen with the Huichol cosmogony.
The exhibition also shows movies that are starring hybrid beings with fragments of films such as Dracula, Pan’s Labyrinth and Wrath of the Titans, as well as a film series in the Cineteca Nacional.
Hybrids. The body as imaginary will be opened on Thursday, March 8 at 7:30 pm and will be on display until May 27, 2018 at the Museum of the Palace of Fine Arts.
Mexico,Distrito Federal
