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For Mexicans, few designs are as recognizable and appreciated as that visual created for the 1968 Mexico Olympics by the artist Eduardo Terrazas. A novel, pop art image that, over the years, has earned a special place in the history of Mexican design. Learn more about this piece and many others in the retrospective Multiple Equilibrium. Eduardo Terrazas. Works and projects at the Museum of the Palace of Fine Arts until October 8, 2023.
The exhibition contains a contemporary language and the living roots of the cultures of Mexico. It is an exhibition conceived as a retrospective of the artist that shows creations focused on social problems’ analysis and investigation.
After 51 years, the teacher Eduardo Terrazas returns to the Palacio de Bellas Artes with a retrospective exhibition of all those years and what has happened in his infinite and generous gaze. Multiple Balance presents extraordinary pieces in which the architect Eduardo Terrazas shares his Wixárika roots, which he has never forgotten.
The speaker stated that throughout his life, he has always strived to integrate the local Mexican tradition with modernity and the global; «because we need that vision that unites the whole world.» For the artist, it is essential to understand now that dimension of what we are and what we have and put it in contact and union with others and the others who are in front of us: all countries and all regions through art.
The speaker stated that throughout his life, he has always strived to integrate the local Mexican tradition with modernity and the global; «because we need that vision that unites the whole world.» For the artist, it is essential to understand now that dimension of what we are and what we have and put it in contact and union with others and the others who are in front of us: all countries and all regions through art.
The exhibition brings together 144 pieces, 10 of them unpublished. It is segmented into four nuclei that allow a chronological and thematic journey through the artist’s work, including works from the late sixties to date, thus showing the activity constant of this artist.
Multiple Balance. Eduardo Terrazas. Works & Projects (1968-2023) will be open to the public from June 8 to October 8, 2023, from Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The exhibition is sponsored by the Jenkins Foundation, as is the accompanying catalog.
Multiple Balance. Eduardo Terrazas. Works & Projects (1968-2023) will be open to the public from June 8 to October 8, 2023, from Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The exhibition is sponsored by the Jenkins Foundation, as is the accompanying catalog.
See more information at the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes.
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Statement, Alan González S.
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