In its reopening, the Tlaxcala Art Museum (MAT) is shown with a new language that accommodates pieces that have defined Mexican art since the 1920s. and in the same way at Proposals from the new generation of Tlaxcala talents, so plurality is what defines this renewed space.
Contemporary art completes in balance the pieces of the greatest exponents of the plastic arts in Mexico exhibited in this enclosure, as are Frida Kahlo, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Tina Modotti, Juan Soriano, Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, José Luis Cuevas, Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, solo to mention a few of the creators that we can find in the MAT.
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The vision that we have of the culture of Tlaxcala is a very contemporary vision that understands the new languages of young Tlaxcala artists; and not only of young people, because there are people who are doing contemporary art in Tlaxcala who are not necessarily young, but who have that open mind, who experiment with languages and who are critical, this is the axis that gives north to the new MAT, according to Antonio Martínez Velázquez, director of the Tlaxcalteca Institute of Culture (ITC).
El MAT welcomes us with a clear example of this duality: a sculpture by the young artist from Tlaxcala Tonatiuh Sánchez Benítez, made with plastic benches that gives a new aesthetic experience to everyday objects, as well as a tapestry by the long-standing textile artist Juan de la Cruz, who through his skill with the threads draws a sorceress.
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As we enter the museum we arrive at the room that houses the works of Frida Kahlo that at the end of the 1920s she gave to her great friend Miguel N. Lira; we find drawings, watercolors, paintings and even the letters that the two artists exchanged. This room also highlights the presence of the pastillita doll, the protagonist of one of the most emblematic works of the Tlaxcala writer and that Frida captured in one of the oil paintings that is precisely in this room called “Portrait of Miguel N. Lira”.
The Fridas room is a permanent room, that was a claim of the Tlaxcala society to have these works already permanently, because our Fridas, despite being Tlaxcalans, always passed it on a trip due to the importance of the works , which are early works that would define the worldwide phenomenon that is Frida and that is why they are so coveted by people who know about Frida, abounded.
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And of the art of the most recognized painter that Mexico has given, we take a leap to the room that presents the exhibition “Oblique Look”, which contains part of the collection acquired or donated to the State of Tlaxcala. At this site we are received by a gummy bear whose ear has already been bitten, it is the acrylic piece called “Gummybear 2”, by the artist Juan Pablo Vidal, which the museum staff tell us has been the protagonist of the visitors’ selfies.
In this collection of Tlaxcala there are also pieces by the Oaxacan Francisco Toledo dating from the mid-eighties, as well as photographs by Pedro Meyer and a sculpture by José Dávila.
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What we did was go back to the collection but give it a new reading and that is very interesting because the truth is that the state heritage is very rich that the Tlaxcalans should know. So we review it and, like any archive, this collection can be read in different ways and we find those dialogues of aesthetic production, detailed the director of ITC.
As part of “Oblique Look” also includes pieces by emerging talents from Tlaxcalas what, in conjunction with pieces by other contemporary creators, “provokes a dialogue about the form, the supports, the materiality, but it is also a conversation between the aesthetic search of the Tlaxcalans and the central creators of the current contemporary scene. ”, Details the curatorial text.
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In such a way that in this room they are gathered pieces by Tlaxcalans such as Emerson Balderas, Héctor Andrés Valencia, Noemí López Carrasco, Alejandro Osorio, Chrystian Romero Jiménez, Rodolfo Suárez Montesinos, Francisco Muñoz, Carol Espíndola and a piece of sound art by Sofía Fuentes, which floods the room.
Already in the expansion area, which until a few years ago housed the SAT offices, he welcomes us the exhibition “Manifests of Mexican Art, 1921-1958” , originally premiered at the Museum of Modern Art and which arrived in Tlaxcala as part of the agreement signed between the ITC and the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature (INBAL).
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It is a sample that brings together around 100 pieces including paintings, drawings, engravings, photographs, sculptures, documents and books that show a panorama of the plastic and editorial production of artistic groups in our country in the years near the end of the Mexican Revolution.
Another of the new spaces in the MAT is the immersive room, equipped with large-format screens that literally envelop the viewer in a visual and sound way and that it will be ready for the projects of video art of the art schools of the state and the country, and in this way make room for new artistic languages, according to the director of the ITC.
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And for visitors who want to take a souvenir, You will find talavera crafts, clay, jewelry and Tlaxcala textiles among other pieces.
That is how the Tlaxcala Art Museum opens again to the public with renewed airs and new artistic languages to nurture the Tlaxcala cultural scene.
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