During these holidays, the Mexico City offers an excellent cultural opportunity with free entry to two must-see venues, the museums Jumex y Soumaya. Both offer contrasting exhibitions that invite you to reflect on art from classical European roots and contemporary critical proposals of Latin America.
He Museo Jumex houses Silhouettes on Weeds, a collective exhibition that brings together the practices of six Latin American artists: Minia Biabiany, Vivian Caccuri, Ana Mendieta, Nohemí Pérez, Vivian Suter and Frieda Toranzo Jaeger. The exhibition, valid until January 5, 2025, explores the relationships between humans, territory and nature.
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The works combine visual poetics with social criticism. Ana Mendieta It fuses the body and the earth in pieces that evoke the connection with the ancestral and the natural. Nohemi Perez presents monumental landscapes worked with charcoal, which reveal the violence exercised over devastated territories. For its part, Vivian Caccuri uses sounds inspired by Amazonia to create an installation that amplifies interactions between organisms and environments.
ANOTHER AESTHETIC OF ART
On the other hand, the Museo Soumaya presents in one of its five available rooms, Room 3, the collection Old European and New Spain Masters, whothat includes works of 13th to 19th century. The room brings together representative pieces from the Flemish, Spanish, German, Italian and French schools, in addition to including outstanding examples of New Spain art.
Among the most notable authors are El GrecoBartolomé Esteban Murillo, Lucas Cranach the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens, who portray religious scenes, allegories and passages of daily life with an unmatched technique. The dialogue between European and New Spain art offers a unique look at the process of cultural exchange during the viceregal period.
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Visit us at the headquarters in Plaza Carso, Casa #GuillermoTovarDeTeresa and the Atrium of San Francisco. pic.twitter.com/KFGBGp8I5p— Museo Soumaya (@ElMuseoSoumaya) December 18, 2024
The exhibition shows how European artistic currents influenced art in Mexico, adapting to the local reality.
The pieces reflect the technical virtuosity of the artists and the convergence of two sensibilities, as Ernst points out. Gombrich in his reflection on European and American art.
While the Museo Soumaya It transports us to a time marked by classical art and its mastery, Silhouettes on Weeds in it Museo Jumex presents a current reflection on Latin America and its territory from female voices.
This duality enriches the visitors’ experience by combine history, social criticism and contemporary aesthetics.
Visit the exhibition ‘Silhouettes over weeds’ at the #MuseoJumexan exhibition in which six Latin American artists invite us to reflect on how to inhabit the body and the territory, through different circumstances and geographies. We are waiting for you!
Photos: Ramiro Chaves pic.twitter.com/ODcocrPCYI
— Jumex Foundation (@FundacionJumex) December 11, 2024
Both museums are located in Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 303in the Polanco area. The Jumex Museum is open from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and the Soumaya Museum is open from 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., Monday to Sunday.
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