De lo verdadero a lo imaginado: Rastros Mexicanos From the Real to the Imagined: Mexican Traces
November 26, 2008 - February 8, 2009
Rufino Tamayo (b. Oaxaca, Mexico, 1899 - d. Mexico City, 1991) Moon Dog, 1972
from The Mexican Masters Suite
Lithograph on paper, 22 1/2 x 29 3/4 inches
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Stanley Glickman
1991.011.003.004
De lo verdadero a lo imaginado: Rastros Mexicanos highlights
the
work of
Mexican and Mexican-American artists through selections culled from the
UAMA permanent collections. Diverse and distinctive, the works range in
style and subject, from social realism to magical fantasy to colorful
abstraction.
The word "trace" carries many subtle connotations: as a noun, it
suggests a track, a mark of passage, evidence of activity,
thought or feeling; as a verb, it implies reproduction -- through
sketching, say, or reiteration -- and the inclination to follow closely.
The 21 featured artists -- ranging from renowned 20th-century masters to
acclaimed contemporary talents -- demonstrate inclinations and interests
traced from the pre-Columbian period to the present, complicated and
transformed by context, art historical influence, and individual style.
The works on view suggest the vital importance of the human figure,
anthropomorphic and zoomorphic depictions, and fantastical symbolism, as
well as thematic emphases on daily life, indigenous culture, social and
political realities, myth and fantasy, that mark continuity through the
course of Mexican art.
Artists: Alfredo Castañeda, Enrique Chagoya, Alejandro Colunga,
José
Luis Cuevas, Rudy Fernandez, Gunther Gerzso, Maximino Javier, Luis
Jimenez, Alfredo Ramos Martinez, Alfonso Mario Medina, Leopoldo
Méndez,
José Clemente Orozco, José Guadalupe Posada, Diego Rivera,
Gustavo
Ramos
Rivera, Artemio Rodriguez, Cecilio Sanchez, David Alfaro Siqueiros,
Rufino Tamayo, Nahum B. Zenil, and Francisco Zúñiga.
Curated by Lisa Fischman, Chief Curator, UAMA
Educational Programs:
Thursday, January 22nd, 4pm
Lecture about the influence of Pre-Columbian art on contemporary
Mexican art by Dr. Stacie
Widdifield, UA School
of Art
