Magnificent Mexico: 20th Century Modern Masterworks
Presented by CommUNITY en Acción
The El Paso Museum of Art is thrilled to bring Magnificent Mexico: 20th Century Modern Masterworks presented by CommUNITY en Acción. The program contains three masters` exhibitions: Magnitud Mexicana: Visionsof Art; Dibujos Divinos: 20th Century Drawings from the National Museum of Art – MUNAL, México, and Diego Rivera and the Cubist Vision from the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, México. The exhibitions open on January 28, 2012.
These three exhibitions from Mexico City represent the largest gathering of Modern Mexican Masters ever experienced in El Paso, with 91 original works of art in painting and drawing by Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Rufino Tamayo, among 47 others.
Magnitud Mexicana: Visions of Art highlights creations by almost thirty different Mexican artists of the past century, on special loan from four institutions and one private collection in Mexico. Of varied theme, mood, and technique, these forty-plus works include easel paintings by the great Muralists Orozco and Siqueiros, political prints by the leading satirist José Guadalupe Posada and others, lyrical visions and powerful figures by painters such as María Izquierdo, Rufino Tamayo, and Gilberto Aceves Navarro, as well as more abstract and contemporary pieces by Mario Rangel Faz, Helen Escobedo and other masters. Among the prestigious lenders to this exhibition are the following institutions in Mexico City: Museo Nacional de Arte, Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, Museo Nacional de la Estampa, and Centro Nacional de Conservación y Registro del Patrimonio Artístico Mueble.
from the Museo Nacional de Arte - MUNAL, México, D.F.
January 28 - May 27, 2012
Woody and Gayle Hunt Family Gallery
From an annual review of project achievements of the Museo Nacional de Arte – MUNAL in México in 2010, this exhibition aims to circulate the Mexican art form of creative drawing within the medium in context of post-revolutionary art. Another objective met by this exhibition is to establish contact with the American public as part of the MUNAL’s mission to reaffirm the Mexican national identity through the arts. The exhibition spans the twentieth century from c. 1900 to 1945 in charcoal and watercolor. The earliest works are from c. 1900, represented by a stunning watercolor portrait of a woman by Alfredo Ramos Martínez, who is considered by many to be the father of Mexican Modernism and a 1909 charcoal drawing of a Warrior by Saturnino Herrán, the first Mexican artist to envision the concept of a totally Mexican art and who paved the foundation for the development of the Mexican muralist movement twenty years before Los Tres Grandes – Siqueiros, Orozco and Rivera. Other works by Roberto Montenegro and Antonio Fabres predate the rise of Modernism in Mexico, while others featured in the exhibition include the more celebrated and recognized, Modernists, Dr. Atl (Gerardo Murillo), José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and Julio Castellanos. The exhibition made its debut in 2010 in Paris and is being exhibited for the first time in United States at the El Paso Museum of Art.
Fermín Revueltas (Mexican, 1903 – 1935)
El café de cinco centavos, 1930
Watercolor on paper, 13.38” x 10.63”
Gift of Blanca Vemeersch de Maples
Museo Nacional de Arte, México – MUNAL
CONACULTA – INBA
Diego Rivera and the Cubist Vision from the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, México, D.F.
January 28 - May 27, 2012
Peter and Margaret de Wetter Gallery
Emphasizing Rivera`s distinctive approach to synthetic cubism, this exhibition will present 8 portrait paintings by Diego Rivera from the first quarter of the 20th Century. These extraordinary compositions of vivid colors and tactile surfaces demonstrate the artist`s engagement with themes of identity and place during a time of profound social and political upheaval in both Europe and México. The show explores the evocative links developed between Diego Rivera and objects, people, and places, often including specifically Mexican motifs or references to the experiences and people Rivera had encountered at his time in Paris, Madrid, Mallorca, and Toledo. Together, these paintings not only represent the artist`s finest cubist work, but they also offer meditations on self-identity and nationalism. The exhibition is curated by Christian Gerstheimer of the El Paso Museum of Art.
Admission
$10
for non member adults age 13 and up
$5
for Museum members age 13 and up
FREE
for children age 12 and under
FREE
for Active Military Personnel and their Families with ID
Hal Marcus (American, 1951 - ) Four Seasons of El Paso: Fall, 1995
Acrylic on canvas
Gift of Richard and Virginia Harshman
El Paso Museum of Art Collection
Hal Marcus (American, 1951 - ) Four Seasons of El Paso: Spring, 1995
Acrylic on canvas
Gift of Richard and Virginia Harshman
El Paso Museum of Art Collection
The El Paso Museum of Art will exhibit the 1995 artwork titled Four Seasons of El Paso by Hal Marcus in honor of his receiving the Diabetes Person of Vision Award from the El Paso Diabetes Association which will be awarded at the El Paso Museum of Art on February 11, 2012.
The vibrant colors of this Fauve-inspired, four-panel, acrylic on canvas depict the artist’s neighborhood in four seasons from four directions at four different times of the day. Using a similar composition, each panel is anchored by the green spire of the Saint Patrick’s Cathedral and the converging lines of a central street leading to a distant vanishing point near the mountainous horizon.
The El Paso native Marcus has worked as an independent artist since 1990, has mentored many artists while maintaining the Hal Marcus Gallery from 2000 to 2010, and has also generously donated artwork from his personal collection to the El Paso Museum of Art by artists such as: Manuel Acosta, Kate Krause Ball and Berla Emeree.
Anonymous(Mexican, 19th Century)
Our Lady of Refuge of Sinners(mid 19th C)
oil on tin,10 x 7”, 18 x 14 5/8” framed
El Paso Museum of Art,
Gift of Dr. Steven McKnight
in honor of Frank & Sara McKnight
2007.5.48
Our Lady of Refuge of Sinners
December 4, 2011 – April 8, 2012
Roderick Gallery: Retablo Niche
As part of EPMA`s dedication to an ongoing rotation of the retablos in the collection, this exhibition explores images of Our Lady of Refuge of Sinners from 19th century Mexico. The image of Our Lady of Refuge (or La Refugiana) was introduced to New Spain the early 18th century by Jesuit missionaries and was based on an Italian altar-painting. The subject soon became highly popular throughout New Spain, especially in Zacatecas, where a representative copy existed and because of the endearing image of mother and child. As with similar popular subjects, such as the Virgen de Guadalupe or the Holy Child of Atocha, numerous variations of the image in terms of color, composition and iconography were made by anonymous artists of varying talent. However, whether for public or private devotion each is demonstrative of the important role of religious icons in everyday life in 19th century Mexico.
Working the Line: Photographs by David Taylor
October 2, 2011 – March 18, 2012
Gateway Gallery
David Taylor Drop-off Spot and Border Fence,
Sonora, 2009
Archival Inkjet Print
Courtesy of the artist
For the last four years David Taylor has been photographing along the U.S.-Mexico border in an effort to document the 276 obelisks that mark the international boundary between El Paso/Juarez and Tijuana/San Diego. This exhibition will feature selections from Taylor’s series of hundreds of monument images, as well as, his other photographs documenting the landscape of the border and people he encountered. Taylor addresses the border as both a factual location defined scientifically by coordinates and as a transitional space with shifting significance and meaning over time. In the process of his work the artist gained extensive access to the Border Patrol at a time of dramatic change. In part, his work depicts the borderland as a region where guns, governments, dogs, Border Patrol agents, drug smugglers, and illegal immigrants collide. Overall Taylor has created a document that is both enlightening and alarming delivered in a visually enticing format.
In 2008, Taylor was awarded a Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to support his project. The book Working the Line with essays by Hannah Frieser and Luis Alberto Urrea was published by Radius Books in 2010 and will be available for purchase in the Museum Store.
Margarita Cabrera
August 28 – August 4, 2013
Patricia and Jonathan Rogers Grand Lobby
Margarita Cabrera (American, 1973 - ) Arbol de la Vida: John Deere Model 790, 2007
Ceramic, slip paint and steel hardware
Courtesy of the artist
Margarita Cabrera
For the next two years, from August 2011 until August 2013, the El Paso Museum of Art will feature eleven artworks from the last ten years by the Monterrey, Mexico born artist Margarita Cabrera. Cabrera first became known for her soft-sculptures of commercial products such as coffeemakers and blenders manufactured at US-owned maquiladoras in Mexico to serve as reminders of the labor involved. In time Cabrera’s concern for the role of laborers who build American products outside the United States outgrew her interest in the objects themselves, and she began to organize projects that involved the work of artisans from immigrant communities. Cabrera’s Arbol de la Vida John Deere Model 790 is the result of a project involving the creation of a life-size replica of a John Deere tractor in clay, the "tree of life" for many workers in the agricultural community. Cabrera`s cross-cultural perspective allows her artistic practice to involve the political, social and emotional aspects of two distinct, yet closely connected cultures. Cabrera lives and works in El Paso.
Margarita Cabrera – Biography
Margarita Cabrera was born in 1973 in Monterrey, Mexico. She lived in Mexico City for ten years and then immigrated to the U.S. with her family. She received an MFA from Hunter College in New York, NY. Cabrera currently lives and works in El Paso, TX. Her most recent exhibitions include a solo show entitled Pulso y Martillo at UC Riverside Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, CA, during which she debuted two performance works. Her work was also included in New Image Sculpture at the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX and the Trans/Action at Guadalupe Cultural Art Center, San Antonio, TX. Her work has been included in Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX; El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY; Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID and San Jose Museum of Art, CA. In 2008 she was a resident artist at ArtPace, San Antonio, TX. Cabrera is the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant and was a finalist for the Texas Prize in 2007. Cabrera is represented by Walter Maciel Gallery in Los Angeles, CA.
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