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Obsidian Mirror-Travels: Refracting Ancient Mexican Art and Archaeology
The J. Paul Getty Trust, The Getty Research Institute
November 16, 2010 - March 16, 2011
Los Angeles, California, USA
This exhibition explores representations of Mexican archaeological objects and sites made from the Colonial era to the present. Featuring images of ancient Maya and Aztec ruins by archaeologist explorers such as John Lloyd Stephens, Desiré Charnay, and Augustus and Alice Le Plongeon, the exhibition showcases depictions of the Aztec Calendar Stone and other Mexican antiquities as well as panoramic visions of Mexico—all in the context of the Spanish conquest, the 19th-century French intervention in Mexico, and the lengthy presidency of Porfirio Díaz (1876–1910). Some of the works exhibited are accurate, while others are fanciful; each portrays a distinct vision of Mexico.
Please, visit the official website:
/http://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions/
For further inquiries, please contact:
The Getty Research Institute
1200 Getty Center Drive
Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
USA
Tel: +1 - 310 - 440-7335
E-mail: griweb@getty.edu
Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
September 26, 2010 - January 9, 2011
Los Angeles, California, USA
Olmec civilization, which began sometime around 1400 BC, was centered in the Gulf Coast states of Veracruz and Tabasco. Olmec architects and artists produced the earliest monumental structures and sculptures in Mexico, including enormous basalt portrait heads—weighing up to twenty-four tons—of their rulers. This exhibition will be the first presentation on the West Coast of the colossal works and precious small-scale sculptures produced by Mexico's earliest civilization. The exhibition is co-organized by Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, LACMA, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
(Source. Website of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
Please, visit the official website:
http://www.lacma.org/art/ExhibOlmec.aspx
For further inquiries, please contact:
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90036
USA
Tel: +1-323-857-6000
E-mail: publicinfo@lacma.org
Teotihuacan – Mexico’s Mysterious Pyramid City
Teotihuacan – Mexikos geheimnisvolle Pyramidenstadt
Martin-Gropius-Bau
July 1 - October 10, 2010
Berlin, Germany
“Teotihuacan – Mexico’s Mysterious Pyramid City” is the name of an exhibition to be presented by the Martin-Gropius-Bau from 1 July to 10 October 2010. More than 450 outstanding objects giving a comprehensive insight into the art, everyday life and religion of this enigmatic culture will be on view in Europe for the first time. They include specimens of monumental architecture, filigree vessels and figures, costly stone carvings, masks, statues of gods and representations of animals as well as examples of highly symbolic murals which have retained their brilliant colours since their creation some 2,000 years ago. Permission has been given for the first (and probably the last) time for the 15 large-format fragments of murals to be sent abroad. Numerous exhibits were only discovered in the latest excavations.
Treasures from leading Mexican museums have been brought together for this exhibition. Most of the exhibits come from the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City and the two museums in Teotihuacan itself. In addition, the Anahuacalli Museum – built by Diego Rivera for his collection of pre-Spanish sculptures – has for the first time lent valuable items.
The exhibition is divided into nine sections. The first item to welcome the visitor is the Great Jaguar of Xalla, one of the more recent finds from a palace complex and a characteristic example of decorative monumental architecture. An introduction to the development of the city and its archaeological history is followed by a section on architecture and town planning as represented by sculptures, friezes and murals. The social themes of politics, hierarchies, economy, war and commerce are represented by a multitude of objects, including stone sculptures, clay vessels and jade jewellery. Obsidian, for example, was the material from which weapons were made, Teotihuacan being a great manufactory of weapons. There is a spectacular reconstruction of a tomb found under the Pyramid of the Moon in the course of an excavation campaign in 1998-2004. Original objects are shown in glass cases. A special category may be seen in the “innkeeper figures”, which house inside them tiny, elaborately shaped figurines arranged as in a seedling box. Religion, gods and rituals, urban and social life, art, crafts and workshops as well as cultural exchange are further themes of this unique show, which displays a wealth of new findings.
(Source: Website of the Martin-Gropius-Bau)
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http://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/en/aktuell/festivals/11_gropiusbau/mgb_04_programm/mgb_04_kommende_ausstellungen/mgb_04_komm_Ausstell_ProgrammlisteDetailSeite_14082.php
For further inquiries, please contact:
Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin
Niederkirchnerstraße 7 | Corner Stresemannstr. 110
D-10963 Berlin
GERMANY
Tel: +49 (0)30 254 86-0
Fax: +49 (0)30 254 86-107
E-mail: post@gropiusbau.de
URL: www.gropiusbau.de
