El loco Pallares: un futurista en México

As part of the Derivas de Arte y Arquitectura program, Arte Abierto presents the talk El loco Pallares: A Futurist in Mexico by Elisa Drago Quaglia.

The drama of modernity at the beginning of the 20th century was a breeding ground for ideas and new visions for a world in constant transformation. The age of machines and the emergence of modern cities continue to fascinate us even today, a hundred years later, because of the rich creative process in which the planet was immersed. For a humanity facing a promising future, a new aesthetic, emotional, cultural, artistic, and architectural consciousness had to be invented. In this context of a new total art, the figure of Alfonso Pallares emerges, a character who was, perhaps, too modern even for the moderns. With a kinesthetic understanding of the world, out of step with his time and parallel to the violence of Italian Futurism, Pallares sought to give shape to his concerns and tried to express them in our country, in a society culturally and architecturally rooted in conservative nineteenth-century values. Unable to understand him, they branded him crazy.

–Arte Abierto