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A large audience attended the Tamayo: A Mexican solitary modernist exhibition in its first weekend at the National Gallery of Canada·
June 27, 2016A large audience attended the Tamayo: A Mexican solitary modernist exhibition, which is made up of 18 oil paintings and a series of 12 lithographs by Oaxacan painter, presented at the National Gallery of Canada in its first weekend.
With a crowded attendance, the exhibition organized by the departments of Culture and Foreign Affairs, is made up of works from the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, National Art and Tamayo Contemporary Art, as well as 12 lithographs from the Olga and Rufino Tamayo Foundation, plus a piece of the Canadian enclosure collection.
The general director of the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA, for its acronym in Spanish), Maria Cristina Garcia Cepeda, representing the Secretary of Culture, Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, said during the opening of the exhibition that Tamayo is a decisive figure on Mexico’s visual arts horizon being on a place of honor in the Latin American modernism history.
The exhibition, registered as part of the Summit of North America Leaders, allows Mexico to maintain a dialogue with the world through its culture. “We celebrate that Canada receive these creations, which further strengthens friendship and cooperation ties with our countries, and deepens into our respective rich and visionary cultures knowledge, the official said.
The Tamayo: A Mexican solitary modernist exhibition publishes the essential artist’s work to understand Mexico’s artistic richness which transited to modernity without leaving its valuable cultural heritage. It will be opened to the public until October 10th, 2016 in the enclosure located in Ottawa.
As part of the activities of Rufino Tamayo’s 25th death anniversary, this is the first solo exhibition of the Oaxacan artist presented in Canada on three great pillars with representative pieces from 1930 until the eighties.
The personal artist and his wife’s art collection emphasizing in painting and sculpture from Europe, US, Latin America and Asia from 1945 to 1975, has resulted in the Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum, founded in 1981.
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