Exhibitions of the creations of two Uruguayan artists are inaugurated and are now on exhibit at the Casa Diego Rivera Museum Guanajuato/Gto News
Exhibitions of the creations of two Uruguayan artists are inaugurated and are now on exhibit at the Casa Diego Rivera Museum
Guanajuato/Gto News
The State Institute of Culture and the Embassy of Uruguay in Mexico worked together during the assembly of the works that the Casa Diego Rivera Museum will house, starting today, in the Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo halls.
Adriana Camarena de Obeso, head of the State Institute of Culture; Santiago Wins Arnabal, Ambassador of Uruguay to Mexico; Walter Cruz, exhibiting artist; Juan Carlos Jimenez, curator of the exhibition; and Arturo Lopez Rodriguez, Director of Museums and Visual Arts of the IEC, inaugurated both exhibits before a large audience made up of authorities, cultural protagonists of the city and the general public.
Adriana Camarena de Obeso noted that the opening of Guanajuato to the world has always been a goal of the governor of Guanajuato Diego Sinhue Rodriguez Vallejo, so welcoming Uruguay to Guanajuato confirms the two years of artistic and cultural relationship that have been consolidated since 2022 through the International Cervantino Festival.
Santiago Wins Arnbal, Uruguay’s Ambassador to Mexico, noted the importance of decentralizing art to help the culture of other countries reach everywhere and with it, strengthen the bond between nations.
Petrona Viera’s work comes after visiting the National Gallery of Santo Domingo, the National Museum of Fine Arts of Chile, the Museum of the Arts of America in Washington DC, the National Museum of Art of Mexico, and finally the Casa Diego Rivera Museum in Guanajuato.
“Petrona Viera, an endless creation”, is located in the Diego Rivera Room, and consists of a selection of 26 works that are just a sample of the vast collection that the author produced throughout her life and that stands out for its thematic trajectory with various techniques among which you can see oil paintings, graphite, watercolors and engravings with large planes of color including scenes related to childhood, landscape and the nude (unusual works for women of her time).
Viera became deaf at an early age, which defines her, this circumstance did contribute to the refinement of other senses and the acquisition of a sensitivity and deeper perspective that allowed her to dialogue with herself, being precisely the reflection of that different vision of the world: chromatic, soft, inspiring and austere reflected in her works, her best legacy and the reason why this tribute is paid to her today.
Under the shelter of the Frida Kahlo Room, is the multidisciplinary exhibit “Walter Cruz. Fifth Dimension” with 16 works created expressly for this occasion and that are inspired by the Fourth Dimension studied by Diego Rivera in which he addressed research on the x rays and the transparency of objects relating them to new mathematical theorems.
Therefore, in Fifth Dimension, Cruz tries to capture the cosmos, the smallness and greatness of existence, the fragments of forms, ideas and tactile experience, at the same time that he takes advantage of his own experiences to build and achieve in a glance and capture all the possibilities of the same figure to discover new realities through everyday life.
For the artist, this experience meant an opportunity to address new languages of expression. His proposal includes music, design, installation, fashion and painting. The textile part is dedicated to Petrona Viera and he hopes that his proposal is an echo of each of the lives that have inhabited the Casa Diego Rivera Museum throughout its existence.
“Petrona Viera: an endless creation” and “Walter Cruz. Fifth Dimension” will remain open to the public until September 15, at the Casa Diego Rivera Museum (Positos 47, Guanajuato).
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