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 The Aztec
and Maya revival style refers to a resurgence of Pre-Columbian motifs
and patterns in Mexico's modern arts. In the late 19th century, Mexico
began to embrace its Pre-Columbian past and indigenous roots. Mexico
developed a new style of art by appropriating the iconography of many
of its Pre-Columbian ancestral groups, including but not limited to the
Aztec and Maya cultures. The Aztec and Maya Revival
exhibition illustrates this fusion of Pre-Columbian visual
patterns with modern Mexican material culture.
The
main gallery features revival decorative art such as furniture,
jewelry, ceramics, paper, books, and textiles, as well as authentic
Pre-Columbian artifacts. Fine art works include paintings by Roberto
Montenegro and Miguel Covarrubias, and sculptures by Miguel Noreña and
Luis Ortiz Monasterio. The main gallery also provides a brief history
of the revival style through photography and documentary films. For
school tours, please contact Education Coordinator, Lacey Richter, at
education@mexic-artemuseum.org
or 512-480-9373 x24. A printed gallery guide is available for students
and families.
In the back gallery, 1950’s Mexican
horror films from the Aztec Mummy Collection will be showing in the
Museum’s recreation of the Aztec Theater. The Museum Store will also
carry special merchandise such as books on Pre-Columbian culture and
the revival style and a Quetzalcoatl eco-friendly
bag.
The Aztec and Maya Revival
exhibition was developed in collaboration with graduate art history
research assistant Claudia Zapata through the College of Fine Arts from
The University of Texas at Austin. The items in the exhibition are on
loan from The University of Texas and private collections. The
exhibition is sponsored in part by the City of Austin, Texas Commission
on the Arts, Memnosyne Foundation, The University of Texas at Austin,
and others. For more information, please contact Mexic-Arte Museum’s
Public Relations Director, Alexandra M. Landeros at 512-480-9373 x25 or
pr@mexic-artemuseum.org.
 
Click here to view the Aztec and Maya Revival Gallery Guide
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 | La Momia Azteca
(Attack of the Aztec Mummy)
In
Spanish with English Subtitles, Black and White,
1957
An experiment in hypnosis and past lives leads
Dr. Alameda, a
scientist, to search for proof of his theory that people can be
regressed to past lives. Dr. Alameda discovers that his fiancée, Flora,
is the reincarnation of an Aztec maiden, who was killed and entombed
for having an affair with the warrior Popoca. Flora now leads Dr.
Almada’s exploration party to the maiden’s skeletal remains buried at
the entrance to a hidden chamber in an Aztec tomb. There they awaken
the wrath of Popoca, the Aztec
Mummy.
|  | La Maldición de la Momia Azteca
(The Curse of the Aztec Mummy)
In Spanish
with English Subtitles and English Language Dubbed version, Black and
White, 1957
Arch-criminal Dr. Krupp, alias the Bat,
escapes from the police and
plots the theft of an entombed treasure, guarded by the mummified
warrior, Popoca. Dr. Alameda’s fiancée, Flora, whom Krupp believes to
be Popoca’s beloved princess incarnate, is abducted by the Bat. At the
pyramid in which the treasure is hoarded Dr. Alameda and The Angel are
recaptured by the Bat’s henchman. With Flora hostage, The Bat coerces
Dr. Alameda into deciphering the hieroglyphics, which are the key to
the
treasure.
|  | La Momia Azteca contra el Robot
Humano (The Robot vs. The Aztec
Mummy)
In Spanish with English Subtitles and English
Language Dubbed Version, Black and White, 1958
Dr.
Krupp, a mad scientist, creates a robot with a human brain in order
to steal a valuable Aztec treasure from tomb guarded by a centuries-old
living mummy, Popoca. The robot is equipped with radium, used to
destroy living tissue, which should mean that Dr. Krupp finally defeat
the dreaded mummy, but the centuries-old curse proves to be too
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Mexic-Arte Museum invites you to enjoy a collection of limited edition serigraph prints from the Serie Project. The prints complement the Aztec and Maya Revival exhibition at Mexic-Arte Museum, and will be on exhibition at Manuel's Micro-Gallery through September 4, 2008.
Manuel's Downtown Restaurant
310 Congress Avenue
Austin, TX 78701
(512) 472-7555
Serie Project, Inc. is a non-profit Latino arts organization that produces, promotes and exhibits serigraph prints created by established and emerging artists. The organization was chartered in 1993 by local artist Sam Coronado, who is also one of the co-founders of Mexic-Arte Museum. The Serie Project strives to emphasize the cultural diversity of the visual arts while developing awareness of Latino art and its importance in our communities.
The serigraphs are created in a mentoring environment at Coronado Studio in Austin, Texas. Hand-pulled multi-colored prints are produced and signed by local, national, and international artists. An expert Master Printer is available for each participant to assist and guide in the production of their editions. Prices start at $250 per serigraph when new prints are readily available. The value of each unframed print increases as the limited quantities are purchased by collectors and others who appreciate fine art originals. The last print of a small edition is more expensive because it is the final one available.
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| Mauro H. Garza, Corazon de Azteca, 21.75" x 16", Serie 7, 1999-2000
| Lori LeJeune, The Watcher,
22" x 16", Serie 3, 1995-1996
| Pepe Coronado, La Plaza del Mural, 28" x 15", Serie 3, 1995-1996 |
See these prints and four others at Manuel's Micro-Gallery. If you are interested in purchasing one of these prints, please contact the Mexic-Arte Museum Store at (512) 480-9373 or store@mexic-artemuseum.org.
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Centro Cultural
Vito Alessio Robles
Saltillo, Coahuila,
Mexico
Organized by Mexic-Arte Museum in collaboration
with the Austin Saltillo Sister City Association, the exhibition
features artists representing Austin and several cities in Texas. The
desire to showcase miniatures of these diverse and gifted artists’
works further demonstrates and compliments the concept and dynamic of
scale within visual art. As one views each piece, an up-close vantage
point is required in order to fully examine and absorb detail and form.
It is with this objective, of getting up-close and personal to the art
pieces, the Museum invites audiences to step outside the confines of
one’s own personal box or parameters, and into a world of beauty and
mystery of miniature art.
Artists:
Miguel Aragon
Federico Archuleta
Ricky
Armendariz
Chuy Benitez
Candace
Briceño
Janet Brooks
Carmen Canann
Robert
Cardenas
Pilar Castrejon
Sam Coronado
Neil
Cronk
Liliana Garcia–Roig
Kimberly Garza
Campbell
Linda Genet
Carlos G.
Gomez
Rosemary Healy Gonzalez
Tita
Griesbach
Luis
Gutiérrez
| Hector Hernandez
Leticia Huerta
Gerald
Lopez
Jacqueline May
Roberto Munguia
Sylvia
Orozco
Angel Quesada
Lacey Richter
Jose L.
Rodríguez
Tony Romano
Alonso Rey-Sanchez
Joe
Sosa
Ishmael Soto
Paula Stephen-Cocke
Pablo
Taboada
Benjamin Varela
Regina
Vater
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The Box Contemporary Museum
of
Art
The Huge & the
Small
La Caja Museo Contemporáneo de Arte / The Box
Contemporary Museum of Art, curated by Martha Papadimitriou, is a museum inside a
museum.
Featuring prominent contemporary artists from Mexico, La
Caja is made up of the Huge and the Small:
a miniature contemporary
museum and “regular” size paintings and sculptures displayed in a
traditional
museum gallery setting. In conjunction with La
Caja, miniature works of art by Texas
artists will be on exhibition in the Latino Art Wing through April 13
and will
be auctioned at Taste of Mexico on April 18.
The
Small
 A
fascinating miniature museum contains miniature art works created
between 2001 and 2007 by twenty-four prominent Mexican contemporary
artists for this project. The pieces in La Caja / The
Box are not
representations – they are autonomous, original artworks. The mini
museum invokes the sensation of “entering” a real museum rather than
standing in front of a display. La Caja / The Box
touches human
attributes: the curiosity for small beautiful things and the need to
approach and dominate an object. Because of its size, the viewer can
stand, sit on a bench, or sit on the floor to gaze at the artwork
depending on the installation. This transforms a once solemn attitude
into a playful spirit, and it absorbs the viewer’s
attention.
The
Huge
 Exhibited
in the museum gallery are twenty-one
“regular” size works of art by many of the same artists. These works,
created between 1999 and 2007, are exhibited on the walls and floor in
a traditional setting. These are also self-sustained and
self-conclusive works of art. Audiences view and experience these
different works in a larger environment and question their perception
of the art objects and their relationship to the art objects. Art
historian, Luis Carlos Emerich writes, “La Caja Museo
Contemporáneo de
Arte / The Box Contemporary Museum of Art by Martha
Papadimitriou is a
novelty at a time when nothing is considered
such.”
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Presented
in conjunction with the Mexican Center of the Institute
of Latin American
Art and the
Harrington Fellows Program at the UniversityTexas – Austin,
the exhibition features retablos from the collection of Jorge Durand
(Universidad de Guadalajara,
Mexico)
and research partner Douglas Massey (Princeton
University). The
retablos
in the exhibition are small, religious images painted by Mexican
immigrants to
thank God, the Virgin Mary, and the Saints for a miracle
of bestowed upon them
during life’s trials, such as illness, an accident, or the dangerous
journey
across the border into the United States. Durand and Massey’s book
Miracles on the Border features many of the
retablos in the
exhibition and can be purchased at the Mexic-Arte Museum Store for
$27.95.
Originating
from the Latin word retro-tabula, “behind the altar,” retablos first
referred
to paintings and sculpture placed behind the altars of European
Catholic
churches in the early Middle Ages.
Retablo painting gradually emerged as a genre in
Mexico at the
beginning of the 17th century as a unique fusion of European and
American
traditions. With the introduction of inexpensive tinplate in the
mid-19th
century, many more people could afford to have retablos made. Today,
retablos
are a thriving popular art form that has influenced some of
Mexico’s
leading
artists.
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Click here to view the YLA 12 video.
Texas A & M University – Corpus
Christi
6300 Ocean Drive
361-825-2317 (or
2386)
Curated by:
Angel
Quesada, Austin
Featuring artwork
by:
Gerald Lopez, Corpus Christi
Jesus De La Rosa, McAllen
Chuy Benitez, Houston
Anna Pilhoefer, El Paso
Enrique Martinez, San Antonio
Lucilla Flores,
Austin Traveling
from Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin to Texas A & M University in
Corpus Christi, this 12th installment of the Museum’s popular
Young Latino Artists (YLA #12) series focuses on the
theme Embracing Chaos. According to curator Quesada,
the exhibition “shows the behavior of chaotic systems which appear to
be at random because of an exponential growth of errors in the initial
conditions of the work.” This early period in an artist’s career is
often unrefined but not untrained, unversed but not unskilled. It is
during this period where you will find young artists “embracing chaos”
and searching for their personal style. Click here to download the YLA 12 Catalog |
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