Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 303
Mexico City 11529
Mexico
Lina Bo Bardi: Habitat
January 30-May 10, 2020
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Lina Bo Bardi: Habitat addresses the life, work, and legacy of the Italo-Brazilian architect, designer, curator, museum director, writer, editor, and set designer. Bo Bardi is best known internationally for the design of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (1968) and SESC Pompéia (1982), a leisure center for workers. These and other projects modified the canon of modern architecture in Brazil as well as the educational role of the museum. Through drawings, photos and original furniture designs, the exhibition presents an overview of Bo Bardi’s practice in which modernist ideas were informed by popular and vernacular culture from Latin America.
Curated by Julieta González, independent curator and researcher; José Esparza Chong Cuy, Executive Director and Chief Curator at Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York; and Tomás Toledo, Chief Curator at MASP.
Coordinated at Museo Jumex by Cindy Peña, Curatorial Assistant.
Michael Lin: Mariposa B1-09
February 4-June 28, 2020
Plaza
A temporary commission for Museo Jumex, Michael Lin’s Mariposa B1-09 is a hand-painted floor extending in excess of 1300 square meters across the museum’s plaza and through the building’s ground floor. The work is based on a traditional tablecloth design found in Mexico that echoes similar textiles from the artist’s native Taiwan. The painting acts as a physical and metaphorical stage on which the interplay of popular cultural with art and its institutions are displayed.
The exhibition is organized by Kit Hammonds, Chief Curator, and María Emilia Fernández, Curatorial Assistant, Museo Jumex.
Clara Porset: Design and Thinking
February 28-May 30, 2020
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Expanding on her renowned reputation as a practitioner and promoter of design, this exhibition reveals a previously-unseen side of the designer Clara Porset (Matanzas, Cuba 1895-Mexico City, 1981)—her work as a thinker. Based on her published and unpublished texts, this show will explore her ideas on design, living and modernity.
The display includes plans, photographs, miniatures, objects, and furniture sourced from private collections in Mexico, and documents from the Archivo Clara Porset in the Centro de Investigaciones de Diseño Industrial at the Facultad de Arquitectura de la UNAM, which houses her archives.
Exhibition organized by Ana Elena Mallet, independent curator.
Coordinated at Museo Jumex by Adriana Kuri Alamillo, Curatorial Assistant.
Gego
April 30-August 30, 2020
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This survey of the work of Gego [Gertrude Goldschmidt] (1912-1994), one of the most important postwar artists in Latin America, charts her interdisciplinary artistic production through different fields: architecture, design, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, fabric, site-specific installations, spatial interventions, public art and pedagogy. The exhibition includes works in a variety of media from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s and is a substantial survey of the artist’s practice.
Gego is organized by Pablo Léon de La Barra, Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art, Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP); Julieta González, independent curator and researcher, and Tanya Barson, Chief Curator of the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA).
Coordinated at Museo Jumex by Cindy Peña, Curatorial Assistant.
