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A Route Towards Abstract Thought
FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL CERVANTINO
This year we presented the exhibition “Transición – Ruptura. Colección FEMSA”. It was part of the 45th edition of the Festival Internacional Cervantino held at Guanajuato; since 2014, we’ve participated annually. The sample –exhibited at the Museo Casa Diego Rivera in Guanajuato until January 2018– contains 34 artworks that establish precedents and major representatives of the Breakaway Generation; it was distinguished by the quest for change in Mexican art during the 1950s.
At the beginning of 2017, we also exhibited “Iberoamérica: Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo. Colección FEMSA” during the 44th edition of the Festival Internacional Cervantino in 2016.
It is the route that led a generation of artists towards abstract thought; it drove them away from the nationalism that had distinguished Mexico’s art during the revolutionary period. It was expressed in the exhibition “Transición – Ruptura. Colección FEMSA” and was presented in the 45th edition of the Festival Internacional Cervantino in Guanajuato; it’s an event that we participate in annually since 2014.
This sample –exhibited at the Museo Casa Diego Rivera and in Alhóndiga de Granaditas’s open space– has collected 34 works of art that illustrate precedents and major representatives of the Breakaway Generation; it was distinguished by the quest for change in Mexican art during the 1950s with creativity, style and each artist’s own means of expression.
The exhibition gathers the distinguished work of key artists such as: Rufino Tamayo, Lilia Carrillo, Mathias Goeritz, Carlos Mérida, Francisco Toledo, Manuel Felguérez, Vicente Rojo, Arnaldo Coen, among others. This selection reflects how, in comparison to other artistic movements, the Breakaway Generation was not unified by aesthetic but by their conception of art. As part of the activities of the festival’s edition, we also played our documentary film “El caos y el orden: Manuel Felguérez y su obra abstracta” at the emblematic Teatro Juárez in Guanajuato.
At the beginning of 2017, we also exhibited “Iberoamérica: Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo. Colección FEMSA” during the 44th edition of the Festival Internacional Cervantino in 2016. This sample gathers 42 works of modern and contemporary Latin American art. They include with special Spanish graphics; it was presented in Museo Casa Diego Rivera and in Alhóndiga de Granaditas’s open space.
FACT SHEET
Location: Guanajuato, Guanajuato, México
Partners: Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno of México, Guanajuato’s State Government, Instituto Estatal de la Cultura of Guanajuato, Festival Internacional Cervantino, Museo Casa Diego Rivera, Teatro Juárez, Coca-Cola FEMSA, OXXO
Duration: October 12th, 2017 – January 14th, 2018