Traveling with Rufino Tamayo

Mexico City: Uno sin el otro. Fotografías y películas de viaje de Rufino Tamayo / Retrato de su curador (One without the Other. Travel Photographs and Footage by Rufino Tamayo / Portrait of his Curator) is open thru May 5 at the Tamayo Museum.

This is an approach to the heritage of this institution based on the research conducted by Uruguayan artist Alejandro Cesarco (Montevideo, 1975) and the museum curator Juan Carlos Pereda: 320 photographs (in slides) and 19 footage clips of Rufino’s and Olga Tamayo’s trips (1950-1980) to Paris, Athens, New York, Peru, Brazil, Italy, Israel, India, Thailand, Japan, Guatemala and different parts of Mexico.

The exhibition included unpublished works that reveal the artist’s fondness on photography and that, according to experts, gave way in some cases to many of his works that can be seen today on the museum’s walls.

The Approach to Heritage cycle usually showcases artistic and documental materials related to the Tamayo Museum’s history and public, and sends out an invitation to a curator, artist, writer, architect or any other professional to activate his own collection.

The exhibition is all by itself an appraisal of the research study conducted by Pereda who dedicated 25 years of his life to study Tamayo’s work, and of artist Cesarco, editor of the Between Artists book series based on conversations with artists and curators in Argentina, the U.S. and Uruguay.

For more information, visit www.museotamayo.org and www.rufino.mx.