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Opening of Kandinsky. Small Worlds at the Palace of Fine Arts.
First major retrospective of the forefather of abstract art, Wassily Kandinsky, arrives in Mexico
October 31, 2018The great outlook of the visual production of one of the most influential artists of the first half of the 20th century, Wassily Kandinsky (Russia 1866-1944) is presented in an individual exhibition for the first time in Mexico.
This is Kandinsky. Small Worlds, opened on Tuesday night, October 30 at the Museum of the Palace of Fine Arts in an act headed by the Secretary of Culture, Maria Cristina Garcia Cepeda, and the general director of the National Institute of Fine Arts, Lidia Camacho.
Regarding the exhibition, made up of more than 70 oil paintings, lithographs, watercolors and xylographs commemorating the 152nd anniversary of the artist's birth, María Cristina García Cepeda considered that it gives an account of the artistic, political and aesthetic paths of the Russian painter, forefather of abstract language, art theorist and one of the founders of the 20th century in visual arts.
The head of Culture thanked the Tretiakov Gallery and the Pushkin Museum, as well as six other museum spaces in Europe and the United States, for their support in bringing this artist’s works to the Mexican public.
She said that the artistic agreement with the governments of other countries and their institutions has allowed in the last two years to take 36 national exhibitions abroad and to bring 29 displays with great works of the international collections to the museums of our country.
According to Lidia Camacho, Kandinsky "finally arrives in Mexico after many years of celebrity as one of the pioneers of abstract art, the trend of those who abandoned the pictorial tradition”.
“The exhibition features different support tools with which the painter's life and work is deepened as audiovisual and interactive material and music pieces by composers such as Wagner and Schoenberg, who influenced several of his creative periods”, said the director of INBA.
She pointed out that with Kandinsky. Small Worlds, the 2018 international exhibition program closes at the Palace of Fine Arts, a venue that has wanted to show the most outstanding of universal art to the Mexican public.
This has been the case of exhibitions such as: Miguel Ángel Buonarroti. An artist between two worlds; Leonardo Da Vinci and the idea of beauty; the Russian Avant-garde; Paint the Revolution; Mexican Red, the carmine cochineal in art; Treasures of the Hispanic Society of America or Picasso-Rivera. Conversations through time, this last one recognized in the United States with the International Prize to the Excellence granted by the Foundation and Association of Curators of Museums of that country.
Kandinsky. Small Worlds includes five themes that draw the Slavic creator's pictorial work from his beginnings in Russia, his expressionist stage, his geometric period at the Bauhaus, the biological forms captured in his late work, to his abstract stage.
The pieces come from The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the Georges Pompidou Exhibition Center, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of New York.
Also present at the opening were Viktor V. Koronelli, Russian Ambassador to Mexico; the director of the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation, Agustín García López, and the director of the Museum of the Palace of Fine Arts, Miguel Fernández Félix.
Kandinsky. Small Worlds will run in the museum of the Palace of Fine Arts until January 27, 2019 and will have a program of activities that includes talks, a didactic concert, a virtual tour and the presentation of the catalog.
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