Paint the Revolución

The Revolution of 1910 transformed Mexico. President Porfirio Díaz, who had guided the country over a stable but deeply divided nation for thirty-three years, was removed from office. The next ten years were consumed by a civil war, a popular revolt that became a new regime headed by revolutionary leaders. Likewise, this regime promoted a nationalist cultural revolution that attempted to unify citizens. Mural painting par excellence came to be seen as the art of the Revolution due to its popular character. The title of this exhibition comes from the heading of an article in the magazine New Masses, in which the New York novelist John Dos Passos recognized in the young Mexican muralists a revolutionary program and the incorporation of modern art with the politics of the masses.

This exhibition tells the story of the painters, engravers, sculptors, and photographers whose work was forged thanks to the imagery of the Revolution that determined the decades following national reconstruction. For this exhibition specifically, we collaborated with the teams of the Museum of the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico and the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the production of super high-quality images to create the files with which three interactive installations were subsequently made. The interactive pieces explained relevant details of three representative murals from the muralist movement in Mexico. The opening was in Philadelphia and later the exhibition traveled to Mexico City where we were responsible for setting up the interactive installations.