In honor of Los Angeles’ city-wide celebration for Mexico’s historic anniversary, Mexico 2010 , honoring 200 years of Independence and 100 years of Revolution, the exhibition reveals the great Mexican muralist, David Alfaro Siqueiros, as an extraordinary landscape painter. This landmark exhibition is the first of its kind to ever be presented. It reveals a little-known facet of Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros. According to Itala Schmelz, Siqueiros was a very unique landscape artist. He was not a naturalist; to the contrary, he painted nature to represent humankind. To him, the relationship between human beings and nature was powerful. The selection of more than 100 works (45 paintings, drawings and prints, 77 photographs and related books, magazines, even 2 cigarette lighters) produced between 1930 and 1973, the year of his death. is organized by Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City in association with the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA). 12 Sep 2010 – 30 Jan 2011. Curated by Itala Schmelz and Alberto Torres.
Exhibition view, Siqueiros Paisajista/Landscape Painter, MoLAA, 2010-11
Photo: Jon Endow