Surrealismo. Ojos de México

Exposición / Throckmorton Fine Art / 145 East 57th Street, 3rd Floor / Nueva York, New York, Estados Unidos
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Cuándo:
21 sep de 2017 - 02 dic de 2017

Inauguración:
21 sep de 2017

Organizada por:
Throckmorton Fine Art

Artistas participantes:
Flor Garduño, Graciela Iturbide, Héctor García, Katalin Deutsch - Kati Horna, Lola Álvarez Bravo, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Rosemonde Cowan Ruelas - Rosa Covarrubias, Tina Modotti

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Fotografía  Fotografía en New York 

       

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Descripción de la Exposición

Throckmorton Fine Art is pleased to announce the exhibit, Surrealismo, Ojos de México/Surrealism, Eyes of Mexico featuring orty photographs by celebrated artists-foreign and national-which demonstrate the enduring influence of Surrealism on photography in Mexico. The photographers whose work we will show include Rosa Covarrubias, Tina Modotti, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Lola Álvarez Bravo, Kati Horna, Héctor García, Graciela Iturbide, and Flor Garduño. Each expressed a distinctive point of view dealing with often irrational and unexpected life experiences. Surrealism emerged as a style from the ashes of World War I, Mexican artists sometimes resisted being labeled Surrealists. At a time when European artists and intellectuals, especially poets, turned against the “high culture” of the Europe that had spawned the horrors of the senseless war in which millions lost their lives, some artists viewed Surrealism as a mechanism for celebrating the mysteries of the subconscious, of dreams, of sexual desire and fantasy, and of strange juxtapositions (of the kind so common in dreams). Surrealism was not an art movement of protest, but instead one that explored the irrational, the unexpected in life. The great French poet, André Breton, came to Mexico in 1938, met with artists, and proclaimed, “Mexico tends to bea Surrealist place par excellence.” In 1939, Breton asked Mexico’s greatest photographer, Manual Álvarez Bravo, to provide a cover photograph for the catalogue of the International Surrealist Exhibition. The image offered, of a woman nude except for bandages, lying on a blanket next to star cacti, is surely the most iconic image in Latin American photography. While Manuel Álvarez Bravo, like other artists in Mexico, resisted being identified as a “Surrealist,” the impact of Surrealism on him and his contemporaries, even before the arrival of Breton, is significant. Mexican artists in the 1930s and the 1940s were familiar with what European artists were pursuing. Foreign artists attracting attention in Mexico included Pablo Picasso, Hans Arp, Giorgio de Chirico, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray. Moreover, the Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel, a collaborator of Salvador Dalí, resided in Mexico from 1946-1961, and he, too, befriended many Mexican photographers, including Héctor García. Some of the photographs exhibited reveal the more playful side of Surrealism. Examples include the photographs of Rosa Covarrubias that are decidedly influenced by the work of Man Ray. There are also images by Tina Modotti that are irreverent and playful. Most of the images in the exhibit, though, have a serious and unifying subject-Mexico and its people. Surrealism provides a lens for viewing a country with many contrasts, with juxtapositions that are unexpected, ironic, sad, humorous, frustrating, and hopeful. There is the contrast of ancient civilizations and frenzied modernity. There are the poor and, side-by-side, the wealthy. There is the indigenous and there is the foreign. In this setting, even what is supposed to be photojournalism so often has at least a tinge, intended or not, of Surrealism. This exhibit offers an arresting overview of modern Mexican photography. A catalogue accompanies the exhibit.

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