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80 works and 122 documents
A wide retrospective shows an unknown face of Mexico´s painting history at the Diego Rivera Museum
March 28, 2017During its 10 years of existence, the National Front of Plastic Arts promoted Mexican art. This promotional work and the pictorial and sculpture work of its members will be exhibited from March 30th to July 2nd, 2017, in the retrospective For an art at the service of the people. National Front of Plastic Arts (1652-1961).
The exhibition will be housed in the Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Museum and will be made up of 80 works of painting, graphics and sculpture, and 122 documents, including photographs, press releases, catalogs and invitations.
In a press conference Luis Rius Caso, director of the museum, indicated that the display presents a new and original curatorial perspective where the public will appreciate "the other side of the coin" of the history of Mexican pictorial art, which is known in a one-dimensional way and always seen on stage.
"Apart from this, situations of the greatest importance happened in terms of national culture. The exhibition brings a lot of unpublished material and high quality work as presents a small historical approach that launch us to a macro view of Mexican culture, in particular the visual arts”, Luis Rius said.
The curator of the exhibition, Raúl Cano Monroy, explained that this is the first retrospective about the National Front of Plastic Arts, an association made up of outstanding artists, among them: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and David Alfaro Siqueiros. The purpose was to promote Mexican art from different disciplines, both in Mexico and abroad.
"The National Front was a collective emerged in the second half of the twentieth century, in 1952, where Mexican socialist and realistic painting was defended and in turn it gave space to other expressions”, he said.
Cano Monroy said that chronologically, the display sets out how the National Front was formed and began its cultural activities, to which amateur painters were even invited.
"In those years, where recognized and amateurs painters exhibited together was frowned upon. The Front opened up to that, for example the exhibition Painting and engraving (1955-56) which traveled throughout Europe, included Diego Rivera, José Chávez Morado, Frida Kahlo, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Olga Acosta, but also painters with a short career”, the Bachelor in History of art, said.
In his opinion, the exhibition highlights that there were other outstanding artists who existed and were active as Rosendo Soto, Guillermo Meza, Oscar Frías, Susana Neve, apart from the masters Rivera, Siqueiros and Kahlo.
Divided into three themes, For an art at the service of the people. National Front of Plastic Arts (1652-1961) relates the history of the group, based on works belonging to the personal archive of the painter Rosendo Soto, who served as general secretary of this group.
The National Front of Plastic Arts was formally constituted in the First National Assembly of Plastic Arts, which took place from May 12th to 14th, 1952 in the Manuel M. Ponce Hall of the Palace of Fine Arts.
Its main activities were in defense of Mexican heritage and painting. In order to promote Mexican art they mainly made exhibitions, contests and manifests and promoted Mexican art in countries such as Poland, East Germany, Romania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and China.
The exhibition, which will also show paintings by Celia Calderón, Ignacio Aguirre, Rina Lazo, Fanny Rabel, Francisco Goitia, will be opened on Thursday, March 30th at 7:30 pm at the Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Museum, Located in calle Diego Rivera s/n, Álvaro Obregón, Colonia San Angel Inn.
Mexico,Distrito Federal
