Eduardo Matta, Edulis, 1942
By Cultural Forum Guanajuato
The Museum of Art and History of Guanajuato is located in Leon and currently hosts the exhibit “Making Worlds,” a part of the FEMSA (Fomento Económico Mexicano or Mexican Economic Development company) collection. The exhibit is divided into five themes: “Prologue: Thresholds”; “Where is the Line between Imagining and Dreaming?”; “Making a New World”; “ReMaking the World”; and “Making this World”—the Utopias. It is a unique approach, conceived in 1977 with more than 1,200 works that illustrate the evolution, plurality, and richness of artistic production in Latin America during the 20th and 21st centuries.
Curated by José Alberto Días Suárez, “Making Worlds” has 110 artworks, with pieces by some of the most renowned Latin American artists of our time: Miquel Vilá, María Girona, Claudio Bravo, Santiago Cárdenas, Gabriel Figueroa, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mario Cravo Nieto, Nahúm B. Zenil, Aristeo Jiménez, Wilfredo Prieto, Wifredo Lam, Carmen Herrera, Naomi Siegmann, Gloria de Duncan, Fernando Ramos Prida, Juan Soriano, Jacobo Borges, Lucía Maya, Sergio Camporeale, Felipe Mujica, Luis Benedit, Leonora Carrington, Kati Horna, Guillermo Meza Álvarez, Antonio Ruiz “El Corzo”, Agustín Lazo, Joy Laville, Liliana Porter, Alfredo Castañeda, Leonor Fini, Rodolfo Morales, Fernand Pierre, Raquel Forner, María Izquierdo, Circe Irasema, Pedro Friedeberg, Julio Galán, Francisco Toledo, Ángela Gurría, Rafael Gomezbarros, Carlos Amorales, Rubén Gutiérrez, Nemesio Antúnez, Hugo Leonello Níñez, Pablo Rasgado.
This exhibition will be open until January 29th.
