Guided tours of the exhibitions

On Satuurday March 11 from 2 to 5pm, N.A.S.A.L. presents guided tours of its exhibitions, open from 12pm:

• Como un tiro, un clavel by the Ecuadorian artist Pablo Andino with curator Natalia de la Rosa
• Olvidemos la modernidad, pero no su estilo with Rivera.

A smoky atmosphere, completely dense, welcomes us. The experience is contrasting. Those who have been there, feel a comfortable and attractive space; if you have just arrived, it will be difficult not to frown at a strange stench, a combination of multiple actions that took place just a few hours before. A circular structure represents a transit passage to an intermediate parallel, between everything and nothingness. It can also be visualized as a ruin containing the remains of an infinite soiree, where an overflowing crowd danced and a collective swagger existed. On the other hand, the absence and emptiness reveal another moment: a place towards an end that seeks to lengthen, since if the night ends and the dawn is surpassed, the arrival towards an abyss is assured.

— Fragment of the text written by Natalia de la Rosa

On May 8, 1923, the impudent voice of Celia Montalván sounded on the radio interpreting the hit La Borrachita, by Tata Nacho. This was the premiere of Mexican radio by El Universal Ilustrado Casa del Radio, for which there were speeches by its founder Raúl Azcárraga Vidaurreta and the director of the newspaper, Carlos Noriega Hope, and a concert from the station studios at Avenida Juárez 62 with stars like Manuel M. Ponce and Montalván herself. Mexican modernity is seen, felt and is present in the unusual technological innovations condemned to be perpetually futuristic, but also in the mess that the post-revolution created, in which morality, decency and normality went out of the window to welcome it - opening the two doors of a cantina - to impudence.

— Fragment of the text written by Aldo Sánchez Ramírez