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Until May 5, 2019
The pending exhibition: Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros arrives in Mexico
December 08, 2018After touring for three years in different parts of the world, The pending exhibition: Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros finally arrived in Mexico City where it will be on display from Saturday, December 8 until May 5, 2019 at the Carrillo Gil Art Museum.
This is an exhibition that was interrupted for over 40 years, since it was originally opened on September 13, 1973 at the Fine Arts National Museum in Santiago de Chile, but the military coup against Salvador Allende cancelled its opening.
It is the last inauguration of this year at the Carrillo Gil Art Museum, said Paula Duarte, who is responsible for the museum: "It is a pleasure to present the pending exhibition: Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros, which has practically traveled around the world”.
With the presence of Ambassador José Luis Martínez and relatives of Álvar Carrillo Gil, it was recalled that this exhibition was first presented in Santiago de Chile in 2015, then in Buenos Aires, Argentina, then traveled to Lima, Peru and ended its itinerancy in Italy, first in Bologna and then in Genoa.
For his part, Carlos Palacios, chief curator of the Carrillo Gil Art Museum, pointed out that the history of this exhibition is very long, since it was initially installed at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago, but was cancelled on the walls of that building.
"And it was never able to open its doors until 2015, when we were able to install it in the same space and under the same curatorial instructions as the original curator of the exhibition, Fernando Gamboa”.
During the inauguration of this exhibition, he said that "what you are going to see here is the history of that assembly interrupted by the military coup against Salvador Allende, what you are going to see is the documentary history, the graphic history and several and very important works of the Carrillo Gil Collection, which we put back following the instructions of the original curator".
However, he warned that the assembly of this exhibition changes in relation to what was done in Chile and other countries, as Carlos Palacios proposed in Mexico City to put the Chilean museum in the Carrillo Gil.
The pending exhibition brings together a series of works that in 1973 would be presented under the title of Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros. Mexican paintings that, 42 years later, were reunited to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between Mexico and Chile.
The public will be able to admire emblematic pieces of these three great of Mexican painting: oils, lithographs and inks, as well as documents such as photographs and telegrams that gave an account of the situation of this exhibition in 1973, as well as the brochures that were prepared for that occasion.
The pending exhibition features Diego Rivera’s works such as Elevado (1928), El niño muerto (1925-1928) and Despojo humano (1925-1928); José Clemente Orozco’s Maternidad (1916), El arquitecto (1915-1916), Portrait of a Poet (1916) and El pintor en reposo (1916).
David Alfaro Siqueiros’s lithographs such as Bañista (1930-1931) and Emiliano Zapata (1931) and oils such as Casa Mutilada (1950), Barrancas (1947), Abstracción (1948) and Torso femenino (1945) can be appreciated.
A feast of lines and color that in that far September 13, 1973 could not be presented in Chile, is finally in our country for the enjoyment of Mexicans and tourists in the Pending Exhibition that is open to the public until May 5, 2019 at the Carrillo Gil Art museum, Avenida Revolución No. 1608, colonia San Ángel.
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