Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 303
Mexico City 11529
Mexico
Dream of Solentiname
March 15–May 6, 2018
Level 1 gallery
In 1965, a spiritual, political, and artistic movement emerged in an archipelago in the south of Nicaragua: Solentiname. Ernesto Cardenal, a leading poet and priest, established this community in its remote location on Lake Nicaragua. The exhibition Dream of Solentiname looks at this key moment in the relationship between aesthetics and politics in Central America as well as its impact on artists working in New York City during the 1980s as the Contra War against the new Sandinista government was underway.
Exhibition organized by Pablo León de la Barra, with Nicola Lees and Ellesse Bartosik. Coordinated at Museo Jumex by Gabriel Villalobos, Curatorial Assistant.
Rogério Duarte. Marginália 1
March 15–April 29, 2018
Level -1 gallery
Marginália 1 presents the work of the late Rogério Duarte (1939-2016), one of the key figures of the Tropicália movement in Brazil. Lesser known than some of his contemporaries, Duarte was a poet, intellectual, music composer, graphic designer, and activist. He was behind some of the most emblematic album covers, film posters, and happenings of the time, but he was also engaged in political resistance and purposefully remained at the margins of cultural production.
Guest-curated by Manuel Raeder and Mariana Castillo Deball. Coordinated by Catalina Lozano, Associate Curator, Museo Jumex.
Memories of Underdevelopment: Art and the Decolonial Turn in Latin America, 1960-1985
March 21–September 9, 2018
Level 2 gallery
Memories of Underdevelopment examines a major paradigm shift in culture and the visual arts, characterized by the articulation of a counter-narrative to the rhetoric of developmentalism that resulted in early instances of decolonial thought in the artistic practices produced in the region between the early 1960s and the mid-1980s.
During this period intellectuals and artists throughout the region echoed the critiques coming from the field of political economy, questioning imposed cultural and aesthetic models, marking a critical distance from the canon and formal vocabulary of the modern, reclaiming local forms of knowledge as well as popular and vernacular expressions, and recognizing the value of cultural manifestations born out of conditions of material poverty.
Organized by Julieta González, Artistic Director, Museo Jumex, with the collaboration at MCASD of Sharon Lerner, Kathryn Kanjo, Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, Anthony Graham, and Jenna Jacobs.
Coordinated at Museo Jumex, by Maria Emilia Fernández, Curatorial Assistant.
Memories of Underdevelopment: Art and the Decolonial Turn in Latin America, 1960-1985 is co-organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and Museo Jumex, and Museo de Arte de Lima. Lead support was provided through grants from the Getty Foundation. Additional support provided through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. This project has received generous underwriting support from Maryanne and Irwin Pfister and the LLWW Foundation.
Franz Erhard Walther. Objects, To Use
May 12–September 30, 2018
Level 3 gallery
Franz Erhard Walther’s first major exhibition in Mexico and Latin America will focus on his continued exploration of body, space and time as materials, sculpted into instruments to be read by the body and completed by the spectator’s imagination. A selection of his early drawings, collages and paintings that evidence an interest in process and material, as well as examples of his first formal pursuits, will be included to show the artist’s evolution towards an object-body-space approach.
Organized by Julieta González, Artistic Director, and María Emilia Fernández, Curatorial Assistant.
Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc. Concerning Solitude
May 12–June 24, 2018
Level -1 gallery
Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc revisits the history of the Cuban-published, international magazine Tricontinental that sought to bring together in solidarity a myriad of political and social movements across the Third World in the 1960s; from liberation struggles in Africa, to revolutionary organizations in Latin America and Asia, all under the umbrella of the Cuban Revolution. Abonnenc shows, through an animated film essay, the evolution and downfall of these movements in the 1980s.
Exhibition organized by Catalina Lozano, Associate Curator, and Gabriel Villalobos, Curatorial Assistant, Museo Jumex.
Pasajeros 03: John Cage
July 5–August 19, 2018
Level -1 gallery
The “Pasajeros” series consists of biographical and documentary-style micro-exhibitions focused on historical figures from abroad who have passed through Mexico and influenced the development of artistic discourse in the country.
The third edition of this series focuses on American composer and theorist John Cage (1912–92); specifically, his visits to Mexico in 1968 and 1976, and the impact of his work and ideas on the local artistic community during that period.
Exhibition organized by Gabriel Villalobos, Curatorial Assistant, Museo Jumex.
Agora: A Blueprint for Utopia
Agora: A Blueprint for Utopia is an ongoing program of commissions for the Museo Jumex plaza exploring notions of public space through engagement, participation and collaboration. The projects address alternative means of designing, activating, and using public spaces and the permanent and transient communities that move through, and form around them.
Paul Ramírez Jonas. Public Trust
March 3–18, 2018
Plaza
Public Trust by Paul Ramírez Jonas is a collaborative artwork in the public space. It is part of Agora: A Blueprint for Utopia, a program of commissions for the Museum’s public plaza.
Public Trust seeks to examine the value we grant to our words through the promises we make to each other and to ourselves. During two weeks at Museo Jumex, Public Trust will ask the museum’s visitors to make a promise which will be recorded in a drawing that they can keep.
Project organized by Julieta González, Artistic Director, Catalina Lozano, Associate Curator, Museo Jumex.
Fritz Haeg & Nils Norman: Proposals for a Plaza
April 7–September 30, 2018
Plaza
In a temporary redesign of the Museo Jumex Plaza, Haeg & Norman draw on the variety of formal and vernacular spaces present in the metropolis including seating, awnings, play structures and planting, to create a sculptural survey of park spaces in Mexico City. A collaboration between two artists working with art, architecture and education, the project employs ideas derived from the 1977 book A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction, a manual that binds together approaches spatial design on the macroscopic scale of town planning to the intimate spaces of the everyday.
Project organized by Julieta González, Artistic Director, Kit Hammonds, Curator, and Ixel Rion, Curatorial Assistant, Museo Jumex.
