Thanks to the Mexican Atlanteanour country exhibited works of this culture for the first time in the Raleigh Art Museum, North Carolinaa piece that remained there for almost two years and was part of the exhibition Cultures of Peru and Mexico before the Spanish conquestwhich from October 1, 2022 to July 28, 2024, was admired by 477 thousand 215 people.
The atlante is a sculpture of andesite stone, 120 centimeters high by 42 wide and 50 thick, corresponding to the period Late Postclassic (1200-1521 AD), and is part of the collections of the National Museum of Anthropology.
With this loan, the curatorial script of the permanent rooms of a museum from another latitude was enriched, which is in the process of opening to the Mexican public settled far from our country.
Ancient Mesoamerican cultures were not publicly displayed at that time, but rather as a result of a change in attitude, derived from the exhibition 20 Centuries of Mexican Artmounted on the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New Yorkconceived, among others, by Alfonso Caso and Miguel Covarrubias.
“Museums are mirrors of societies, we must be attentive so that people see themselves reflected in their contents. In the 21st century The effervescence begins to value marginalized groups: people of color, women, the community LGBTQ+.
“In 2020 we began the reinstallation work in recognition of the Latino presence.
“The public’s response was positive, because they immediately identified with the sculpture of a Mesoamerican warrior,” said the curator of the exhibition, Angel Gonzalez Lopez.
After almost two years of exhibition outside the country, the piece returned to the National Museum of Anthropology, in the Mexico City.
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