El Paso Museum of Art
Lectures
The City of El Paso Department of
Planning and Economic Development in partnership with
TexasTech College of Architecture and the
El Paso Museum of Art, Museums and Cultural Affairs Department
presents
Lecture Series 2011-2012
We are proud to present our inaugural 2011-2012 Architectural Design Lecture Series. This year`s community lecture series will bring some of the strongest campus building designers to El Paso, some of them recognized with national and international awards for their excellent work, and some of them emerging architects who are establishing innovative practices and already gaining international attention. Our lectures were made possible with the generous support of local firms, and with partnerships with the El Paso Museum of Art and the City of El Paso`s Department of Planning and Economic Development. We are fortunate to have such strong support in the community!
February 3, 2012 – 6:30 PM
LEERS WEINZAPFEL
El Paso Art Museum Energy Auditorium
In 1982, Andrea Leers and Jane Weinzapfel formed their distinguished partnership. Leers completed her Master’s of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania when the school was under the direction of Louis Kahn. When Leers Weinzapfel Associates was awarded the AIA Firm Award in 2007, the highest honor the AIA bestows on a firm that has consistently produced distinguished architecture for at least 10 years, the organization was also awarding the first woman owners of a practice to receive this prestigious award. Building extensively throughout the United States, including on the University of Pennsylvania, M.I.T., and Harvard University campuses, their work is distinguished by a bold, refined presence that brings a positive impact to the public realm. Leers teaches at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
February 24, 2012 – 6:30 PM
DEREK DELLEKAMP
El Paso Art Museum Energy Auditorium
March 23, 2012 – 6:30 PM
TATIANA BILBAO
El Paso Art Museum Energy Auditorium
April 5, 2012 – 6:30 PM
MONICA PONCE DE LEON
El Paso Art Museum Energy Auditorium
April 12, 2012 – 6:30 PM
MALCOLM HOLZMAN
This lecture will be held at the Foundation Room of the El Paso Community Foundation, 331 North Oregon Street.
May 3, 2012 – 6:30 PM
MICHAEL MEREDITH
El Paso Art Museum Energy Auditorium
Zip Tour of Magnitud Mexicana: Visions of Art from Mexican Collections
by Patrick Shaw Cable, Senior Curator
12:15 p.m., Wednesday, February 8, 2012
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.
Zip Tour of Diego Rivera and the Cubist Vision
by Christian Gerstheimer, Curator
12:15 p.m., Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Emphasizing Rivera`s distinctive approach to synthetic cubism, this exhibition will present 7 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. These paintings represent the artist`s finest Cubist work, and offer meditations on self-identity and nationalism. The exhibition is curated by Christian Gerstheimer of the El Paso Museum of Art.
Diego Rivera’s Cubist Paintings and their Legacy for Contemporary Art
Dr. David L. Craven
2:00 p.m., Sunday, March 18, 2012
El Paso Energy Auditorium, Free
Between 1913 and 1917, Diego Rivera produced over 300 Cubist paintings. Dr. Craven will address the distinctiveness of Rivera’s contribution to Cubism, as well as the enduring legacy of his commanding paintings. The presentation will feature works as seen in the exhibition, Diego Rivera and the Cubist Vision, on view through May 27.
David Craven is Distinguished Professor of Art History at the University of New Mexico, where he has taught since 1993. Dr. Craven received a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he wrote his dissertation under Donald Kuspit, a student of German philosopher Theodor Adorno. Dr. Craven’s published books and catalogs include: Art & Revolution in Latin America, 1910-1990, Abstract Expressionism as Cultural Critique, Art in the New Nicaragua, and Diego Rivera as Epic Modernist among others.
Zip Tour of Dibujos Divinos: 20th Century Drawings from the
Museo Nacional de Arte – MUNAL, Mexico City
by Christian Gerstheimer, Curator
12:15 p.m., Wednesday, April 11, 2012
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.
Cafés, Technologies, and the Mexican Vanguardia in the 1920s
Lynda Klich, Ph.D.
6:00 p.m., Thursday, April 12, 2012
El Paso Energy Auditorium, Free
In the 1920s, young Mexican writers and artists joined together in projects that sought to convey both their optimism for the new post-Revolutionary period and their differences with official projects like muralism. This talk will examine the art created by one such group, the estridentistas, which included the artists Ramón Alva de la Canal and Fermín Revueltas, whose works are included in the exhibition Dibujos Divinos: 20th Century Drawings from the Museo Nacional de Arte – MUNAL, Mexico City.
Lynda Klich is Distinguished Lecturer in the Art Department and Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College of the City University of New York. She received her Ph.D. in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. She specializes in modern Latin American art and is currently preparing a book manuscript on estridentismo, a vanguard art and literary movement active in Mexico during the 1920s. She is curator of the Leonard A. Lauder Postcard collection, and is co-curating an exhibition of the collection, to open at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in October 2012.
Gesture, Style and Function in Modern Mexican Drawing, 1900-1950
Dr. Karen Cordero Reiman
6:00 p.m., Thursday, May 24, 2012
El Paso Energy Auditorium, Free
In the years following the Mexican Revolution, artists proposed and explored diverse strategies for the construction of a modern Mexican art. Dr. Cordero Reiman will analyze and contextualize the works of art dating between 1900 and 1950 included in Dibujos Divinos: 20th Century Drawings from the Museo Nacional de Arte – MUNAL, Mexico City and their relationship to the dynamic artistic, social and political milieu that surrounded the Mexican Revolution and its aftermath.
Karen Cordero is a U.S. born art historian who has lived and worked in Mexico since 1982, and is a professor of Art History at the Universidad Iberoamericana and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Dr. Cordero is the author of numerous publications on twentieth and twenty-first century Mexican art, and has had a continuous participation in museums as curator, advisor and researcher. Recent curatorial projects include Afecto diverso. Géneros en flujo (Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, 2010) and curatorial coordinator of Mujeres ¿y qué más?: reactivando el archivo Ana Victoria Jiménez, exhibiting in various locations through 2011.
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