The starting point of museographic essay No. 2 is a working panel from the architect Félix Candela (1910-1997) with plans and equations of some of his most important projects. Stemming from architecture, this exhibition aims to generate a dialogue between modern and contemporary works from the museum’s collection.
The exhibition
The “museographic essays” series seeks to establish new bases to understand and complement the lines that make up the Tamayo Museum collection: modern art and contemporary art, distinguishing two types of practices and attitudes in the artistic production of the last century.
The vast majority of the works we identify as modern art were donated by Rufino Tamayo to the museum with the intention of presenting the work of international artists. Among them are Mark Rothko, René Magritte, Pablo Picasso or Isamu Noguchi, whose practice was based on traditional formats such as painting and sculpture, or drawing.
In the 1990s, the rise of contemporary art was seen both in Mexico and in various parts of the world. Being its mission to support contemporary art, the Tamayo Museum began to incorporate in its collection works that deliberately leave the schemes of modernism, so that artistic thinking involves new aesthetic, pictorial and sculptural explorations.
The starting point of the museographic essay no. 2 is a work panel of Félix Candela (1910-1997) with some of his most relevant projects, which remained for decades and until recently in his study of work in Mexico City. Taking architecture as a reference in the selection of work, mainly modern in the first room, followed by contemporary works in the second room and the central courtyard, it seeks to generate a dialogue between modern and contemporary in the collection, making use of Museum lighting parameters to underline the distinction between one space and another.
Work Selection
Mark Rothko [Untitled (yellow, cherry, orange)], 1947
Oil on canvas Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art Collection, INBA-Conaculta
Mark Rothko [Untitled], 1968
Acrylic on paper mounted on masonite Museo Tamayo Contemporary Art Collection, INBA-Conaculta
Rufino Tamayo [Costa], 1973
Oil on canvas Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art Collection, INBA-Conaculta
Pedro Reyes In collaboration with Jorge Covarrubias [Vertical Park], 2002 – 2006
Mixed media Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art Collection, INBA-Conaculta
Wolfgang Tillmans [Empire (Avalanche)], 2005
C-print Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art Collection, INBA-Conaculta
Simon Starling [Project for Temporary Public Sculpture (Hiroshima)], 2009
Bronze and paper Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art Collection, INBA-Conaculta
Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art
The Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art, also known as the Tamayo Museum or the Rufino Tamayo Museum, is a museum located within the Chapultepec Forest, in Mexico City, Mexico. Honor Rufino Tamayo.
It is a public museum dedicated to presenting international contemporary art exhibitions and its collection of modern and contemporary art in order to enrich the aesthetic experience and foster the critical sense of the spectators. He also researches and disseminates in different formats the works of his collection, as well as the work of Rufino Tamayo.
Founded in 1981, the Tamayo Museum produces innovative exhibitions of the most representative of international contemporary art, its collection of modern and contemporary art, as well as the work of its founder, artist Rufino Tamayo, with the aim of enriching the aesthetic experience and critical sense of the different publics of the museum through research and interpretation of its programming.
The museum’s collection is divided into two sets: the modern fund, gathered mostly by Olga and Rufino Tamayo, and a contemporary fund that emerged in the 1990s and continues to grow, thanks to donations from artists who have already exhibited in the museum. works created ex profeso.
The modern background is striking for the list of great authors represented: Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Francis Bacon, Jean Dubuffet, Fernand Léger, Wifredo Lam, Pierre Soulages, Frank Auerbach, Alexander Calder, Eduardo Chillida, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Josep Guinovart, Barbara Hepworth, Hans Hartung, Willem de Kooning, Roy Lichtenstein, René Magritte, Manolo Millares, Robert Motherwell, Georgia O’Keeffe, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Mark Rothko, Antoni Tàpies, Joaquín Torres García, Victor Vasarely, Andy Warhol …