Obsidian Mirror Travels Refracting Ancient Mexican Art and Archaeology Dãƒâ©sirãƒâ© Charnay
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The Getty Enquiry Institute presents images of Pre-Columbian objects, ruins and Manuscripts. Obsidian Mirror-Travels: Refracting Ancient Mexican Art and Archæology at the Getty Research Plant, Getty Eye from Nov 16, 2010 "" March 27, 2011
Jubilant the bicentennial of Mexican independence and the centennial of the Mexican Revolution, Obsidian Mirror-Travels: Refracting Ancient Mexican Art and Archaeology will exist on view at the Getty Research Found from Nov 16, 2010 through March 27, 2011.
The exhibition presents highlights from the GRI"™s strong collection of visual materials that explore representations of Mexican archaeological objects and sites from the Colonial era to the present. Through objects created over the past 500 years, the exhibition investigates historical dialogues among explorers, archaeologists and artists, and examines how Mexican antiquities have been viewed by the world and by the people of Mexico.
The exhibition of more than 70 objects features images of ancient Maya and Aztec ruins by archeologist-explorers such equally John Lloyd Stephens and Désiré Charnay, and depictions of the Aztec Calendar Stone and other Mexican antiquities. These images date from the Spanish conquest (1521) through the 19th-century French intervention in Mexico, and the lengthy presidency of Porfirio DÃaz (1876-1910).
Obsidian Mirror-Travels showcases images of Pre-Columbian objects, ruins, and manuscripts, including maps tracing Hernán Cortés"™ route to Tenochtitlan and views of the ruins of Palenque, Chichénorthward Itzá, and Mitla. The papers and photographs of Alice and Augustus Le Plongeon document Maya monuments and ruins in Yucatán. A facsimile of the Codex Boturini maps the progress of the Aztecs across space and fourth dimension by using footprints that connect the episodes of their migration. Illustrated albums with scenes of United mexican states, assembled by French officers during the Maximilian Empire, were created every bit travel souvenirs.
The exhibition also presents contemporary objects, including Einar and Jamex de la Torre"™s mixed media Eastern Medicine, 2008, and Guillermo Gòmez-Peña and Enrique Chagoya"™south Codex Espangliensis: From Columbus to the Border Patrol, 2001.
The exhibition championship, Obsidian Mirror-Travels, refers to an influential essay by the artist Robert Smithson (American, 1938-1973), published in Artforum International in September, 1969. Smithson traveled to Mexico to retrace the 1839-1842 expeditions fabricated by Stephens and the artist Frederick Catherwood. Visiting many of the same Maya ruins every bit Stephens and Catherwood – Palenque and Uxmal, amidst others – Smithson created a series of installations he called "mirror displacements" that he photographed and published in his essay. Smithson"™s work, Yucatan Mirror Displacements, consisting of nine chromogenic prints, is on loan to the exhibition from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
"Smithson"™s work explores notions of reflection and refraction, conjuring the ways that Aztec and other Pre-Columbian rulers used semi-opaque obsidian mirrors equally objects of power and divination," said Beth Guynn, senior collections cataloguer for the Getty Research Establish and exhibition co-curator. "Obsidian mirrors were seen equally a threshold betwixt the earthly world and the realm of the gods. In much the same manner, the objects in this exhibition stand on their own as individual artworks and illuminate their times and their subjects."
Obsidian mirrors are an apt metaphor for images of Mexican antiquities: they reverberate the viewer besides equally the object. A fifteenth century Aztec Obsidian mirror, on loan from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is the starting point for this exhibition, which is divided into seven sections that explore historical periods, conceptual ideas, and case studies of the Aztec Calendar Stone and Mexican codices. The final piece in the exhibition is Objects divers provenant de Ixlan (Various Objects from Ixlán), a photo of a suitcase total of artifacts documenting the collections of Auguste Génin, a poet and Mexican cultural historian, which is seen equally a metaphor for both the literal and figurative transportability of Mexican culture and objects through time and space.
"Some of the works are accurate, while others are completely fanciful; each portrays a distinct vision of Mexico," says Khristaan D. Villela, exhibition co-curator and Inquiry Boyfriend, University of New United mexican states.
Obsidian Mirror-Travels is part of Los Angeles"™ citywide celebration of the bicentennial of Mexico"™s independence and the centennial of the Mexican Revolution.
RELATED EVENTS
All events are gratuitous, unless otherwise noted. Seating reservations are required. For reservations and information, please call (310) 440-7300 or visit www.getty.edu.
Form: Visions of Mexico
A two-role adult education grade explores Mexican art, history and culture through a survey of the Los Angeles County Museum of Fine art"™s drove of ancient, colonial and modern objects, and representations of archaeological objects and sites that are part of the Getty Research Institute"™s collections and the Obsidian Mirror-Travels exhibition. Session I meets at LACMA. Session Two meets at the GRI at the Getty Center. Course fee is $20 per session and is open up to the showtime 30 participants.
Session I: Sabbatum, December four, 2010, 10:30 a.m.""12:30 p.yard., LACMA
Session Ii: Sat, December eleven, 2010, x:30 a.k.""12:30 p.thousand., Getty Enquiry Establish
Artists"™ Talks: Einar and Jamex de la Torre
Join artists Einar and Jamex de la Torre, who volition discuss their monumental mixed media sculptures and installations, and how their Mexican-American bi-cultural experiences inform their piece of work. The brothers, who alive in San Diego and have a home and studio in United mexican states, combine blown glass, cast resin, video, and dollar-store treasures to create a style uniquely defined as "Border Baroque."
Sabbatum, January 22, 2011, 7:00 p.1000. Museum Lecture Hall
Artists"™ Talks: Jesse Lerner
Los Angeles-based documentary filmmaker and writer Jesse Lerner, whose films have been shown at the Sundance Film Festival, the Museum of Mod Art and the Guggenheim Museum, will hash out the persistence of ancient Mexican visual culture in the mod imagination and as a theme that runs through his work.
Sunday, Jan 23, 2011, 3:00 p.thou. Museum Lecture Hall
RELATED PUBLICATIONS
The Aztec Calendar Stone, edited past Khristaan D. Villela and Mary Ellen Miller, The Getty
Research Found, 2010. $49.
The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire, John Pohl, with an essay past Claire L. Lyons. J. Paul Getty Museum, 2010. $25.
Yucatádue north through Her Optics: Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, Writer and Expeditionary Lensman, Lawrence Gustave Desmond, with a forwards by Claire L. Lyons. University of New United mexican states Press, 2009. $45.
Visiting the Getty Middle
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Report by Pauline Adamek
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