SHATTERED GLASS
Rethinking The Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil Collection November 6 - December 18 Americas Society
Shattered Glass is a project originated by the Museo de Arte Alvar y Carmen T. de Carrillo Gil in collaboration with the Programa de Estudios de Posgrado en Historia del Arte de la UNAM (Art History Postgraduate Program at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). Through an academic seminar, a renowned group of scholars and post-graduate students developed the curatorial proposal resulting in the Shattered Glass exhibition, which brings new scholarship to the work of Mexican modernist artists, particularly in regard to their influence on contemporary art. Americas Society, the Museo de Arte Alvar y Carmen T. de Carrillo Gil and the Mexican Cultural Institute co-presented the exhibition Shattered Glass curated by UNAM postgraduate students Bertha Aguilar, Alejandra Olvera, and Sandra Zetina.
José Clemente Orozco. Aristocratic Dance, 1926-1928.
Through the study of the collection of the Carrillo Gil Museum of Art, the curatorial team reexamined a series of important pieces to reveal how bodies and ruins, placed together, relate to an established colonial narrative, making it possible to reassess the significance of images of violence in contemporary Mexican art and rewrite some of that narrative. Extremely brutal images, such as José Clemente Orozco’s landscapes of New York, were frequently designed as a commentary on metropolitan modernity. They form the core of the curatorial focus of the exhibition, which, along with the catalogue essays, present these concepts from four vantage points, each represented by a section in the exhibition. Shattered Glass was part of the celebrations in New York in 2010 to commemorate the bicentennial of the independence of Mexico and the anniversary of the Mexican revolution.
Work by Pablo Vargas Lugo, León Ferrari and David Alfaro Siqueiros.
José Clemente Orozco. The Dead, 1931.
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