29/5 2025 – 24/5 2026
The new twelve-drawer display of Mexican prints within the collection display 1939–2021: The End of the Black-and-White Era traces the links between Mexico and Czechoslovakia through various encounters, personalities, exhibitions, and acquisitions during the period of the Cold War (1947–1991). Particularly in the 1950s, the socially engaged, figurative, yet imaginative Mexican art – averse to the abstract art championed by the USA – provided artists in the Eastern bloc, including Czechoslovakia, with a dignified alternative to the Soviet model of Socialist Realism. Moreover, thanks to the 1948 and 1954 exhibitions of prints and the 1956 touring exhibition of Mexican art, many artists in Czechoslovakia had a first-hand knowledge of contemporary Mexican art.
The display presents works on paper by the representative of Mexican muralism, such as Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, José Clemente Orozco, and Pablo O’Higgins, as well as graphic artists associated with the Taller de Gráfica Popular (People's Graphic Workshop), such as Leopoldo Méndez, Francisco Mora, Alfredo Zalce, Luis Arenal, Arturo Garcia Bustos, Mariana Yampolsky, María Luisa Martín, Adolfo Mexiac, Elizabeth Catlett, Ignacio Aguirre, Sarah Jiménez and Andrea Goméz.
The new twelve-drawer display of Mexican prints within the collection display 1939–2021: The End of the Black-and-White Era traces the links between Mexico and Czechoslovakia through various encounters, personalities, exhibitions, and acquisitions during the period of the Cold War (1947–1991). Particularly in the 1950s, the socially engaged, figurative, yet imaginative Mexican art – averse to the abstract art championed by the USA – provided artists in the Eastern bloc, including Czechoslovakia, with a dignified alternative to the Soviet model of Socialist Realism. Moreover, thanks to the 1948 and 1954 exhibitions of prints and the 1956 touring exhibition of Mexican art, many artists in Czechoslovakia had a first-hand knowledge of contemporary Mexican art.
The display presents works on paper by the representative of Mexican muralism, such as Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, José Clemente Orozco, and Pablo O’Higgins, as well as graphic artists associated with the Taller de Gráfica Popular (People's Graphic Workshop), such as Leopoldo Méndez, Francisco Mora, Alfredo Zalce, Luis Arenal, Arturo Garcia Bustos, Mariana Yampolsky, María Luisa Martín, Adolfo Mexiac, Elizabeth Catlett, Ignacio Aguirre, Sarah Jiménez and Andrea Goméz.
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