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Inauguration of the exhibition Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire at the Young Museum in San Francisco
September 28, 2017All the splendour of Teotihuacan is ready to illuminate the Young Museum of San Francisco, California, with the exhibition Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire, which will open tomorrow, Friday, September 29th and will be open to the public from September 30th to February 11th, 2018.
The great exhibition, made up of 250 pieces from the city's different periods, including the most recent findings, will focus on two elements: water and fire.
The Young Museum, located in the San Francisco Fine Arts Museum complex, one of the most visited in the United States, will house this Teotihuacan exhibition, with some pieces that for the first time will be exhibited in that country.
In 1993, Teotihuacan: City of the Gods was exhibited with great success in San Francisco's museums, while in 2004 the exhibition El arte corteano de los antiguos mayas (The Courteous Art of the Ancient Mayans) was presented and in 2011, Olmeca, colossal masterpieces of ancient Mexico.
The director of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH, for its acronym in Spanish), Diego Prieto, pointed out that Teotihuacan is once again present in California with this international exhibition consisting of 250 pieces, including the most recent findings discovered in the pyramids of the Sun and the Moon, as well as in the Temple of Quetzalcoatl and the Tunnel of the Underworld, in addition to fragments of mural paintings.
Teotihuacan was founded in the first century A.D. and had an area of 20 square kilometers and a population of 100,000 inhabitants, making it the most populated city in the world and the most important cultural, political and religious center of Mesoamerica; the area was declared World Heritage by UNESCO in 1987.
More than 125 years after systematic explorations and seven research projects have been carried out, only 20 percent of the city has been studied and there are many remains to be discovered, since its original name and the language spoken there are unknown.
It was opened to the public in 1910 as an archaeological area and with more than 3 million visitors annually, Teotihuacan will showcase pieces from its early times and also some of the most recent finds in this great exhibition celebrating the achievements of Mexican archaeology and focusing on two elements: water and fire.
The exhibition City of Water; City of Fire will present Teotihuacán as an urban system, both ceremonial spaces and daily activities, so that the public can admire the new sculpture of the God of Fire found in the Pyramid of the Sun, as well as images of Tlaloc in vessels and ceramic pieces, monumental sculptures, fragments of murals, as well as offerings.
Ninety percent of the exhibits that will be exhibited belong to the Teotihuacan archeological zone and the National Museum of Anthropology and after being exhibited in San Francisco, they will be shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
In reciprocity for this great exhibition, the museums of San Francisco and Los Angeles will send to Mexico two magnificent exhibitions, one of Buddhist art by 2018 and one of Egyptian art, by 2019 that will be focused on Osiris and the cult of death.
The public will be able to enjoy a new vision at the Young Museum of San Francisco in Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire, which will be opened from September 30th to February 11th, 2018, while at the LACMA will be presented from March 25th to July 15th of next year.
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