Gesture, Style and Function in Modern Mexican Drawing, 1900-1950
Dr. Karen Cordero Reiman
6:00 p.m., Thursday, May 24, 2012
El Paso Energy Auditorium, Free
In the years following the Mexican Revolution, artists proposed and explored diverse strategies for the construction of a modern Mexican art. Dr. Cordero Reiman will analyze and contextualize the works of art dating between 1900 and 1950 included in Dibujos Divinos: 20th Century Drawings from the Museo Nacional de Arte – MUNAL, Mexico City and their relationship to the dynamic artistic, social and political milieu that surrounded the Mexican Revolution and its aftermath.
Karen Cordero is a U.S. born art historian who has lived and worked in Mexico since 1982, and is a professor of Art History at the Universidad Iberoamericana and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Dr. Cordero is the author of numerous publications on twentieth and twenty-first century Mexican art, and has had a continuous participation in museums as curator, advisor and researcher. Recent curatorial projects include Afecto diverso. Géneros en flujo (Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, 2010) and curatorial coordinator of Mujeres ¿y qué más?: reactivando el archivo Ana Victoria Jiménez, exhibiting in various locations through 2011.
This event is co-sponsored by
El Consulado General de Mexico en El Paso, Texas
