Pulp Fiction - Reinterpreting the Collection of the Carrillo Gil Art Museum
It is appropriate to briefly describe the nature of pictorial collection of Dr. Alvar Carrillo Gil and his wife Carmen, which was collected over three decades, from 1938 until the late sixties until he was institutionalized in 1973 to open a public museum in the building that the collector built specifically to house it. This passionate businessman, originally from Yucatan and profession pediatrician, was an important and controversial figure in his time. As a friend of Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros, got many of his masterpieces. Diego Rivera collected primarily seven remarkable cubist portraits. Near Fernando Gamboa, excellent selection of work resulted in one of the key stocks to complete the plastic-discursive heritage of national identity, for it held a privileged position in power to the cultural decisions, and traveled with his collection by several continents.
The works of Jos茅 Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Gunther Gerzso and Wolfgang Paalen have been described as masterpieces of the original collection, but also collected works by artists such as Luis Nishizawa, the engravings of the Popular Graphics Workshop and European graphic multiple folders.
Alejandra Olvera reflection concerns the human body and individual subjective violence, internal, spiritual, even deplorable physical damage is a lynching, however, the scores are seen as painful or suffering body, but as a body hurt, that is, ruined and broken everyday and historically. Body, psyche, will and over, assimilated as natural conditions but with a forced and assisted becoming fragmented or mutilated that, they are physical extensions, figures and animations of the social body and the body of life, on which is only regret and resignation . Includes works by Orozco, Gunther Gerzso, Ambra Polidori, Marta Palau and Mieri Sallar猫s.
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It is appropriate to briefly describe the nature of pictorial collection of Dr. Alvar Carrillo Gil and his wife Carmen, which was collected over three decades, from 1938 until the late sixties until he was institutionalized in 1973 to open a public museum in the building that the collector built specifically to house it. This passionate businessman, originally from Yucatan and profession pediatrician, was an important and controversial figure in his time. As a friend of Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros, got many of his masterpieces. Diego Rivera collected primarily seven remarkable cubist portraits. Near Fernando Gamboa, excellent selection of work resulted in one of the key stocks to complete the plastic-discursive heritage of national identity, for it held a privileged position in power to the cultural decisions, and traveled with his collection by several continents.
The works of Jos茅 Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Gunther Gerzso and Wolfgang Paalen have been described as masterpieces of the original collection, but also collected works by artists such as Luis Nishizawa, the engravings of the Popular Graphics Workshop and European graphic multiple folders.
Alejandra Olvera reflection concerns the human body and individual subjective violence, internal, spiritual, even deplorable physical damage is a lynching, however, the scores are seen as painful or suffering body, but as a body hurt, that is, ruined and broken everyday and historically. Body, psyche, will and over, assimilated as natural conditions but with a forced and assisted becoming fragmented or mutilated that, they are physical extensions, figures and animations of the social body and the body of life, on which is only regret and resignation . Includes works by Orozco, Gunther Gerzso, Ambra Polidori, Marta Palau and Mieri Sallar猫s.
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