Culture: A Visit @ Museo José Luis Cuevas Mexico City

 

(Drivebycuriosity) - Mexico City has a legion of museums, you can see them almost at every corner. Many of them are based on private collections. Last week my wife & I visited the  Museo José Luis Cuevas (museojoseluiscuevas). The institution is located in the Convent of Santa Inés (Agnes of Rome) complex constructed around the year 1600. By the late 1970s, Mexican artist José Luis Cuevas had gathered a large collection of modern artworks by Latin American artists and used it to establish a museum in his name, which is today a foundation (wikipedia). The museum's collection contains many artworks by 19th and 20th century Mexican artists, including by Cuevas himself and his wife artist Bertha Cuevas,

Above you can see  José Luis Cuevas` impressive "La Gigantesca"  in the courtyard patio. The androgynous sculpture was created in 1991 and inspired by a poem by Baudelaire.

Above William Wagner Granizo`s "Hommage to José Luis Cuevas" (1990, mural on ceramics)

Above 2 portraits of the founder couple:  "José Luis Cuevas" by Vlady (1953) & “Retrato de Bertha Cuevas con música” by Jazzamoart (2000)

Above Leonel Góngora´s charming collage "Cuevas por Góngora" (1970, Collage sobre tela, 120 x 100 cm). Apparently a homage to Cuevas.

Above some sculptures by José Pepe Toledo (Guatemala, 1951)



                       Artistic Landscapes

Above and below my favorites, images by Obras de Álvaro Blancarte. The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, which collects some of his work, explains: "For more than six decades, Álvaro Blancarte has been mining the topography of Baja California and defining the artistic landscape of this region. Inspired by the mythologies of the Kumiai culture, the light that shines on the mountains of Tecate, and the idyllic scenery described in Latin American literature, Blancarte experiments with textures, materials, and colors to depict the splendor of the deserts of Baja California. Blancarte uses sands and marble powder mixed with acrylic and enamel paints" (mcasd.org)

To show the idiosyncrasy of Blancarte`s work and techniques a combine each image with a detail shot.

To be continued