The Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo presents a museum essay no. 3 (Means of exchange), as part of the series of presentations, by way of essays, from the museum's collection.
The museum essay no. 3 (Means of exchange) is a speculative scenario that proposes a collection of Russian graphic work, made during the eighties and early nineties by artists associated with the Central House of the Artist in Moscow, in response to the imminent fall of the Union Soviet.
The strategy of the exhibition is to implement the series of prints as an artifact that articulates relationships between various works in the museum's collection. This essay is a possible outcome of the tension between political positions or gestures and a biographical situation. In the same way, he starts from the reproducibility of the engraving to think about the materiality of various plastic supports as a political arena.
In 1990, Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991) made a trip to Moscow and Leningrad for an exhibition of his work, curated by Raquel Tibol. Having sold all the copies of the catalog of that sample, he found a significant amount of rubles that, given the unstable political situation of the then USSR, it was impossible to change to another currency or spend during such a short stay in that country. The curator suggested buying a Russian chart folder in order to have the money in some way. Over the years and after several investigations carried out, little conclusive data has been found on the recorders and their trajectories.
This is how these pieces are suspended in a monetary transaction, which served as a solution to a personal predicament of the painter and collector. The folder then exists in a latent tension that involves aesthetic, biographical and political aspects, pointing out other senses in which the Tamayo Museum collection can be read.
This third museum essay includes 50 works of graphics, sculpture and painting by artists such as Bill Brandt, Haris Epaminonda, Rufino Tamayo, John Chamberlain, Gunther Gerzso, Jan Hendrix, among others, who dialogue with the Russian graphics portfolio of which they are included 13 more pieces.
https://edify.mx/ensayo-museografico-num-3-medios-de-cambio/
https://www.museotamayo.org/exposiciones/ensayo-museografico-num-3-medios-de-cambio
https://media.contemporaryartlibrary.org/store/doc/19520/docfile/original-fbdf1d6b85d797a2096cba5cdb33e88e.pdf
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