Miguel Kovarubias, a rebellious look and without limits

More than 450 worksbetween Graphics, oils, gouaches, murals, photos E Classical fees to Miguel Kovarubias (1904-1957), which comes from Collections USA And MexicoIt is part of exhibition Miguel Kovarubias. Boundariesand That night was opened in Citibanamex Palace Culture – Itorbide Palace.

It highlights the exhibition of 20 unpublished graphics The artist did it Clarify the book History of the Mexican peopleand to Louis Chavez OrrozcoWhere the characters are from the different stages of The history of Mexico.

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For example, and Genetics from Mexican TlatoanisFray Bartolomé De Las Casas, a class scheme, Miguel Heidalgo, Jose Maria Morelos Pavon, Agustin de Etorbid, Benito Khuraiz and Porferio Diaz, among others.

This group was part of the private group of the general, who died, after which his home was demolished.

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History of the Mexican peopleThey did not see the light.

But a merchant TePito went to the place and stayed for hours in search of some documents between dust, and thus saved these wonderful pieces of rubble; He explained that this truly discovered three years ago, and no one knew him.

Another distinguished section of the sample It is one dedicated to The artist penetrated into the world of Harlem.

We reach this section Harlem Al -NahdaAnd, like the history of art, has been called this period; It is a moment of artistic intellectual reflection in which the Americans of African origin realized their roots and reiterated their identity in modernity.

Then it was Covarrubias Northern ManhattanTo the cabarets, theater and projects, draw and do many graphics. But what we have here is its final results.

For example, these three oils were not detected in Mexico –A semi -inverted black womanand A black woman with a hat and blue dress Y A black woman with a red dress and a pearl necklaceThey come from the Library of Congress, in Washington.

It is great works, evidence of its great field of oil technology, that is, how African Americans recording this emerging modernity and modernity, here we have some examples. “

For its part, Sergio Raul Arooalso CoordinatorThe artist explained that “an exceptional figure has moved with great independence in a world in which they took control of the pressure of nationalism,” so he managed to “not include himself in the Mexican School of Pray.”

He added: “There is a word (determining the Kofarubias) I do not know whether Adriana Williams or Silvia Navaret has used it: he is a crashing artist, and it is exactly the idea of ​​a person who will not accept what is presented, despite the fact that things are placed on the table to display a specific type of art that rejects them.”

the The sample includes oils like Carmen Jonesand floristand Bone; The mural it carries The splendor of the Pacific OceanRead the Kawasawi before Hayceani and his work inspired by Bali.

They evade the loan

The curators explained this There were two groups that did not give work to this exhibitionDespite its importance.

It is about Harry Ransum Center groups at the University of TexasIn Austin, and The American University Bouella (Udlap).

Both groups were visited, and the requests were submitted, but Austin from the beginning rejected the loan because they were not lending. Apparently, after the epidemic, his research body has been reduced and has no administrative ability to provide loans, ”said Candida Fernadies, head of the Banamex Cultural Development.

In the case of UDLAP, the pieces were already approved, but for some legal privacy, last December, they warned us that it was impossible to make the loan. “

Stolen racial mural

One Six mural maps from CovarrubiasWith the title Arts muraland Anna Luna said yesterday: “He stole at some time in 1940, when he closed his exhibition at the National Museum of Natural History … on the New York trip to San Francisco,” he said.

Closing

At the end of the conference, Andres Albou Marquiseand Banamex Social Commitment DirectorHe announced that, as of the first day of May, Candida Fernandez de Calderon The Banamex Cultural Development Directorate, a job, will leave a job since 1992, because the coordinator and cultural meadow decided to retire.

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