Sintonías inestables

Museo Marco presents Sintonías inestables: Repensando la contemporaneidad pictórica, a group exhibition including artwork by Ana Segovia, Noé Martínez and Artemio, artists whose statements traverse gender, historical violence and post-colonial themes.

Under the curatorship of Taiyana Pimentel, with the curatorial assistance of Brenda Fernández, the exhibition analyzes the current pictorial practice, proposing an approach based on three visions of different generations, but whose work reflects the challenges faced by artists in the 21st century, and the new possibilities in a medium with such an academic and historical tradition.

In terms of discourse, each of the proposals addresses different issues. Ana Segovia analyzes the performativity of gender as a mise-en-scène, based on the stereotypes represented in cinema and public figures such as soccer players. On the other hand, Martínez focuses on slavery during the time of the conquest, using pre-Hispanic and Novo-Hispanic elements, while Artemio explores the role of blood in society based on paintings by great artists in the history of universal art.

The three artists coincide on the fact that they revisit certain moments or elements of history to rethink their link with the past from their own positions; this was the curatorial vision that brought them together in this exhibition, which seeks to explore the new narratives of pictorial representations, from a more evident connection with the history of art and film, through gestuality and the pre-Columbian tradition.

The exhibition is composed of projects commissioned by MARCO to the artists, except for Sangre de Artemio, which is an institutional collaboration with Museo Amparo, in Puebla, where it was exhibited in August 2023.

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