Reflection on Landscape at Mexico’s Museum of the Fine Arts Palace

Mexico’s Museum of the Fine Arts Palace suggests Panoramica. Paisajes 2013-1969, April 25 – July 7.

Word “landscape” stands for a terrain area, the representation of a place in any graphic mean, and one of the oldest and most traditional genres of art history.

This international and multidisciplinary display proposes, based on certain archetypes related to landscapes, to corroborate the ups and downs brought about by the genre. Just like the random materials that feed it (mythologies, cosmogonies, philosophy, visual culture of canon or a piece of junk), the motion of landscapes remains in creative processes from all latitudes and will continue to challenge our imagination. The beginning of this exploration takes 1969 as starting point, a date that meets the first expedition of mankind to the moon. It was undoubtedly an event that entailed other possibilities in terms of the conformation and quality of elements defining this genre.

The curatorship was carried out by Sylvia Navarrete and Itzel Vargas Plata and brings together 109 artworks, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, graphic, photography, in situ works, installation and video. It gathers 73 artists that have explored this matter over the past four decades.

The selection of works groups five themes: Seasons, Water air, Evasion, Sceneries and Tree. It’s important to underline that this exhibition will be introducing works and creators in that country.

Panoramica. Paisajes 2013-1969goes beyond a conventional landscape show and goes deeper into the endless formal and discursive possibilities of the genre. Quoting the curators: “With this exhibition, the Museum of Fine Arts Palace tries to reflect on the concept of landscape and its infinitely symbolic, metaphoric, allegoric, documental, social and aesthetic elements”.

Included artists are: Abraham Cruzvillegas, Andy Warhol, Bill Viola, Felix Gonzalez Torres (Cuba), Liliana Porter, Olafur Eliasson, Alex Dorfsman, Alfonso Mena Pacheco, Amador Lugo Guadarrama, Andreas Gursky, Angela Gurria, Anna Bjerger, Anthony Goicolea, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Boris Viskin, Calixto Ramirez, Chris Ofili (Trinidad & Tobago), Damian Ortega, Daniela Edburg, Edward Burtynsky, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Eric Perez, Enrique Metinides, Erinç Seymen, Fernanda Brunet, Fernando Aceves Humana, Francisco Castro Leñero, Francisco Toledo, Gabriel Figueroa, Gilberto Esparza, Graciela Iturbide, Gregory Crewdson, Gunther Gerzso, Hiroshi Okada, Hiroshi Sugimoto,?Hrair Sarkissian, Ishmael Randall-Weeks, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Jorge Mendez Blake, Jose Arnaud, Julio Galan, Luis Gal, Marcela Armas, Marcos Castro, Margherita Spillutini, Maria Jose de la Macorra, Mario Garcia Torres, Mauro Giaconi, Miguel Calderon, Miguel Castro Leñero, Nigel Cooke, Pablo Lopez Luz, Peter Doig (Trinidad & Tobago), Phil Kelly, Ramiro Chaves, Rineke Dijkstra, Roberto Turnbull, ?Roni Horn,?Rufino Tamayo, Sofía Taboas, Stephen Shore, Tacita Dean, Taka Fernandez, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth, Verne Dawson, Vicente Rojo, Vija Celmins, William Eggleston, William Kentridge, Wu Chi-Tsung, Yishai Jusidman, Yoshihiko Ueda.

Source: Press release