2022 MUSEO DE ARTE E HISTORIA DE GUANAJUATO
Installation views, Hacer mundos. Un acercamiento para leer la Colección FEMSA
Museo de Arte e Historia de Guanuajato, León, Guanajuato.
October 12.2022 – January 29, 2023
Ellos ya habían aprendido que todo lo que sueñan puede existir, 2018
Cotton fabric, wool fabric, Acrilán woven fabric (acrylic fiber), thread, hand-embroidered cotton, and plastic beads
6 curtains, Variable dimensions
Two woven curtains produced by studio Zarapes Ruelas. Four curtains produced by the wixárika craft masters Lucía Carbajal Aguilar and Marcos García López. Guadalupe, Estado de Zacatecas
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Press release excerpt: “The Museum of Art and History of Guanajuato, presents as part of the International Cervantino Festival in its 50th edition, a selection of the FEMSA Collection through the imaginations proposed by the writer Ursula K. LeGuin —one of the most important science fiction literary creators. important figures of his generation, in whose work he addresses gender and sexuality, as well as political systems—, in her text Hacer mundos.
In it, the author reflects on fantastic imagination and her ability to create worlds from scratch; on the political imagination and how it takes elements of our world and modifies them to create utopias and dystopias; as well as beliefs or what we imagine to be able to live in this world.
The exhibition integrates around 110 works arranged in five chapters: Prologue (Thresholds), Where do you draw the line between imagining and dreaming? Making a new world, Making the world new, and Making this world. Works by Miquel Vilá, María Girona, Claudio Bravo, Santiago Cárdenas, Gabriel Figueroa, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mario Cravo Neto, Nahúm B. Zenil, Aristeo Jiménez, Wilfredo Prieto, Wifredo Lam, Carmen Herrera, Naomi Siegmann, Gloria de Duncan, Fernando Ramos Prida, Juan Soriano, Jacobo Borges, Lucía Maya, Sergio Camporeale, Felipe Mujica, Luis Benedit, Leonora Carrington, Kati Horna, Guillermo Meza Álvarez, Antonio Ruiz “El Corzo”, Agustín Lazo, Joy Laville, Liliana Porter, Alfredo Castañeda, Leonor Fini, Rodolfo Morales, Fernand Pierre, Raquel Forner, María Izquierdo, Circe Irasema, Pedro Friedeberg, Julio Galán, Francisco Toledo, Ángela Gurría, Rafael Gomezbarros, Carlos Amorales, Rubén Gutiérrez, Nemesio Antúnez, Hugo Leonello Níñez, Pablo Rasgado.
There is close collaboration between the FEMSA Foundation Art and Culture team and the Museum of Art and History of Guanajuato. This alliance has made possible the presentation of pieces from the FEMSA Collection in the city of León, Guanajuato over the last ten years.”