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Contemporary Art Tag

Modern/Mother Nature de Gabriela Galván, 2023. Vista de la instalación en Arte Abierto. Foto Silvio Balladares

05 Oct TRANSVERSAL TOURS – VALERIA MATA 🗓 🗺

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TRANSVERSAL TOURS

DISARRANGE THE CHAIN

Transversal tour through Modthern Nature with Valeria Mata

On this visit we will explore how our idea of nature has been a cultural construction, full of imaginaries and hierarchies. We will seek to disorder the “mother-nature” relationship and trace the privileged place we have occupied in the food chain (Who feeds whom? Who studies whom?). Practicing listening, attention and observation as tools, we will open conversations with other worlds beyond the human and together we will offer a poem to the plants that accompany us

The Transversal Tours are visits through the Arte Abierto exhibitions with guests from different areas beyond art, to expand the themes and points of reference from other gazes, perspectives, languages and disciplines.

TRANSVERSAL TOURS
DISARRAGE THE CHAIN
Transversal tour through Modthern Nature with Valeria Mata

THUR.12.OCT.2023
18:00 hrs.
Free admission
Arte Abierto | 2nd floor, Artz Pedregal

VALERIA MATA
She is a social anthropologist. She writes and researches about the intersections between artistic practices and anthropology, the political and cultural dimension of food, and the social imaginaries of travel. She has shared workshops and organized study and exploration groups around these topics. She edited the book Comer relaciona (y confronta) mundos (2021), and has published plagie, copie, manipule, robe, reescriba este libro (2018) and Todo lo que se mueve (2020).

valeriamata.com/
@vaaleriamata

PAISAJES PARALELOS VISITA CUATRO: CASA ESTUDIO MAX CETTO. Con Julián Arroyo Cetto. Arte Abierto | Programa público. Foto: Julián Arroyo Cetto

28 Sep PARALLEL LANDSCAPES VISIT FOUR 🗓 🗺

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PARALLEL LANDSCAPES

VISITS AROUND EL PREDREGAL

CASA ESTUDIO MAX CETTO

With Julián Arroyo Cetto

El Pedregal, a huge territory of harsh nature, splendid, but for thousands of years evaded, uninhabited and even devalued, was the scene of the flourishing of incredible gardens and notable projects of modern Mexican architecture. There, a migrant couple and their family became one of the first settlers of Jardines del Pedregal at the end of the 1940s. In this fourth visit of Parallel Landscapes, we invite you to visit the Max Cetto’s Home – Studio, the first house in Jardines del Pedregal de San Ángel, designed by the German architect Max Cetto, in which he projects a synthesis of modernity, tradition, daring, experience and experimentation with the natural environment.

In the last two decades, the house housed various inhabitants and even institutions seeking to adapt to its time. Currently, it is inhabited by its original family, who also seek its preservation, keeping alive the ideals and precepts of Max Cetto. In this tour led by Julián Arroyo Cetto, architect, grandson of Max Cetto and current inhabitant of the house, you will be able to learn not only the architectural aspects of this project, but also the daily and domestic life that has occurred and created in that house. house in the more than 70 years of its history.

PARALLEL LANDSCAPES
Visits around El Pedregal
VISIT FOUR: CASA ESTUDIO MAX CETTO
With Julián Arroyo Cetto

SAT.07.OCT.2023
12:00 hrs.
Casa Estudio Max Cetto
Pre-register here.
Duration: 60-90 min. each visit.
We recommend wearing comfortable shoes, water and a hat.

Responsible Registration Policy: Your place is very special since space is limited, so we ask you to fill out the registration only if you can attend.
To cancel write to actividades@arteabierto.org

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JULIÁN ARROYO CETTO (Cancún, 1981)
Architect graduated from the Faculty of Architecture, UNAM and professor at Universidad Iberoamericana. He has worked on various public and private projects, committed to the balanced integration of technical, artistic, economic and social aspects. He collaborated in the first projects of the Autoridad del Espacio Público (AEP): “Plaza de la República” and “Madero Pedestrian Corridor.” He was Architectural Coordinator in the La Quebradora Water Park projects and renovation of the Parque Urbano Monumento a la Madre and Jardín del Arte. He collaborated with Nuño, Mac Gregor and de Buen in the design of the Bars and Restaurants Building of the León Fair. He has designed projects for SEDATU, among which the “Jardín de Sombras” and the “Jardín de Agua” (Collaboration with ORU), Centro Cultural Mirador, Plaza Principal and Centro Cultural Pisté, Plaza Sisbichén y Deportivo and Plaza Chelem stand out. Currently, he works in his own office and collaborates in the development of projects with both public and private institutions.

casaestudiomaxcetto.com
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PAISAJES PARALELOS VISITA TRES: RUTA DE LA AMISTAD Proyecto Esculturas Experimentales (PEEX) Luis Javier de la Torre Arte Abierto | Programa público Estación # 7 Hombre de Paz Italia Costantino Nivola (1911 - 1988) Ruta de la Amistad Foto: Guadalupe Salcedo

09 Sep PARALLEL LANDSCAPES VISIT THREE 🗓 🗺

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PARALLEL LANDSCAPES

VISITS AROUND EL PREDREGAL

THE ROUTE OF FRIENDSHIP

With Proyecto Esculturas Experimentales and Luis Javier de la Torre

The Route of Friendship, pdesigned by Mathias Goertiz with the support of Architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, is the largest sculpture corridor in the world. In its 17 km. long, there are 19 stations (sculptures) built in concrete that were made by artists from the five continents. In this way, modern art took to the streets as a path of geometries and colors. At some point, it was completely abandoned for 25 years during which it faced damage from rapid urban growth. Since 1994, the Board of Trustees of The Route of Friendship Ltd. has dedicated itself to saving the Route, with the fundamental idea being a thorough restoration that considers not only the sculptures themselves, but also their surroundings.

This guided tour by Proyecto Escrituras Experimentales aims to explore two key sculptures from The Route of Friendship in Pedregal: SCULPTURE 13. Articulated Wall by Herbert Bayer, Austria, and SCULPTURE 7. Man of Peace, by Constantino Nivola , Italy. We will investigate the layers of time gathered at the site, from the potential of the surrounding ecosystem to the current recovery of the spaces with which the door to the return of nature is opened. Taking body perception as a starting point, we will enter the sites to test the possibilities of experimental writing and create a collective text that will be integrated into the public space. During the visit, we will be accompanied by Luis Javier de la Torre, president of the The Route of Friendship Ltd.

PARALLEL LANDSCAPES
Visits around El Pedregal
VISIT THREE: THE ROUTE OF FRIENDSHIP
Proyecto Escrituras Experimentales
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Luis Javier de la Torre

SAT.23.SEP.2023
12:00 hrs.
The Route of Friendship
Pre-register here.
Duration: 60-90 min. each visit.
We recommend wearing comfortable shoes, water and a hat.

Responsible Registration Policy: Your place is very special since space is limited, so we ask you to fill out the registration only if you can attend.
To cancel write to actividades@arteabierto.org

Enter here to learn more about Arte Abierto’s Parallel Landscapes Program, with upcoming visit dates and places.

PROYECTO ESCRITURAS EXPERIMENTALES (PEEX)
An independent collective of artistic and pedagogical curation, formed in 2020, in Mexico City, by curators, writers, educators and artists Cristina Torres and Christian Fajardo. Their practice takes as its starting points the intersections between contemporary art, critical mediation and experimental writing, to investigate, exhibit and promote the proposals and imagination of artists, educators and writers, women, non-binary people and the LGBT+ community who expand their fields of action from experimentation. In October 2022, they inaugurated a project space to present a curatorial program of exhibitions, workshops and talks in the historic Romita neighborhood of Mexico City, taking as its headquarters the space that for decades housed a printing press’s workshop.

www.escriturasexperimentales.com
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LUIS JAVIER DE LA TORRE
He is currently President of the Board of Trustees for The Route of Friendship Ltd. He has dedicated himself to the field of management and communication, carrying out public relations projects in the advertising field and fund management in the cultural field. In 1992 he began his research around the The Route of Friendship Project, and in 1994 he created, together with Architect Javier Ramírez Campuzano, the The Route of Friendship Ltd., an institution dedicated to rescuing, conserving and disseminating the cultural legacy derived from the Olympic Games in Mexico. At the same time, he creates and directs the De-construction project, and carries out urban ecological recovery initiatives, such as the restoration of the Pedregales.

www.mexico68.org
IG @rutamex68

Arte Abierto Programa Público Modthern Nature Piedras Jardines y Encantamientos Taller con Miguel Cinta Robles Foto Miguel Cinta

25 Aug STONES, GARDENS AND CHARMS 🗓 🗺

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STONES, GARDENS AND CHARMS

Workshop with Miguel Cinta Robles

What do stones do in a garden? Perhaps they are part of a bench, a connecting path, or a dividing wall. What do the stones do in a forest? They can be fragments of a cave, a refuge for critters looking for a moment of privacy or a filter for the water that crosses a river. What do the stones do in the city? They are the fragment of a monument, a projectile in a protest or something that gets stuck in a shoe. Observing stones can help us think about other time scales, in dimensions that go beyond us as individuals. At first glance, a stone may seem like a static object, but its formation and movement have shaped the landscapes we inhabit.

Stones, Gardens and Charms is a reflective workshop to exercise contemplation, a space to question and rethink the garden as a containment and classification mechanism of what we understand by “nature”. We will reflect on the methods we use to observe and how they are reflected in the way we perceive our spaces and gardens. We will carry out some exploration exercises to understand the stones again and build other forms of “classification”, imagining that the stones can also be spells to attract water, be linked to lunar cycles, stories, esotericisms, to learn to observe, all we think, doesn’t seem to move.

This workshop with Miguel Cinta Robles is part of Arte Abierto’s Public Program around our current exhibition Modthern Nature by Gabriela Galván.

STONES, GARDENS AND CHARMS
Workshop with Miguel Cinta Robles

SAT.SEP.02.2023
13:00 hrs.
Workshop for everyone (Adults, teens and kids accompained by an adult)
Duration: 2hrs (13:00 – 15:00)
Pre-register here
Quota limited to 20 people
Arte Abierto | 2nd Floor, Artz Pedregal

MIGUEL CINTA ROBLES
He lives between Oaxaca and Mexico City. He studied at the National University of Arts in Buenos Aires and studied visual arts at ENPEG “La Esmeralda” in Mexico City. His interests focus on building models that merge agriculture and sculpture with pedagogical strategies that enable forms of socialization and learning in connection with the land. He is the founder of “Domingo de cerro” a project dedicated to producing routes, walks, workshops and activations in the mountains of Oaxaca and other states of the republic. Currently, he collaborates in the syntropic reforestation and eco-construction project “Terreno familiar” where he dedicates himself to planting, giving workshops, building earth ovens and investigating, together with his family, models to achieve food sovereignty and live in interdependence within the ecosystems and the community of Tlalixtac de Cabrera.

https://miguelcinta.tumblr.com/
IG @miguelcintarobles

PAISAJES PARALELOS VISITA DOS: RESERVA ECOLÓGICA DEL PEDREGAL DE SAN ÁNGEL (REPSA) Dra Silke Cram Bárbara Foulkes Arte Abierto | Programa público

10 Aug PARALLEL LANDSCAPES VISIT TWO 🗓 🗺

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PARALLEL LANDSCAPES

VISITS AROUND EL PREDREGAL

PEDREGAL DE SAN ÁNGEL ECOLOGICAL RESERVE (REPSA)

With Dr Silke Cram and Bárbara Foulkes

Visit two of Paisajes Paralelos is in the Pedregal de San Ángel Ecological Reserve, UNAM (REPSA), located south of Mexico City, within Ciudad Universitaria. Due to its location and its biodiversity, it is considered an exceptional natural and biocultural heritage, not only within the Mexican context but in the world. The reserve protects the volcanic landscape of El Pedregal, in which the endemic ecosystem of the area develops freely and where the unique relationship between flora and fauna and the rocky terrain left behind by the eruption of the Xitle volcano is visible. This tour, led by Dr. Silke Cram, is an opportunity to learn about the ways of life, particularities and challenges of this biodiverse microcosm within one of the largest cities in the world.

After the visit, artist and choreographer Bárbara Foulkes will invite us to take a tour activating all the senses of our body to observe nature from a kinetic and perceptual perspective, redefining our relationship with the landscape, the territory and its stories. We will walk backwards, we will look with our hands, we will taste the sound and we will cross the lands of lava, breathing the wet scree like our tongues.

PARALLEL LANDSCAPES
Visits around El Pedregal
VISIT TWO: PEDREGAL DE SAN ÁNGEL ECOLOGICAL RESERVE
Dr. Silke Cram
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Bárbara Foulkes

SAT.19.AUG.2023
10:00 hrs.
Pedregal de San Ángel Ecological Reserve
Pre-register here.
Duration: 60-90 min. each visit.
We recommend wearing comfortable shoes, water and a hat.

Responsible Registration Policy: Your place is very special since space is limited, so we ask you to fill out the registration only if you can attend.
To cancel write to actividades@arteabierto.org

Enter here to learn more about Arte Abierto’s Parallel Landscapes Program, with upcoming visit dates and places.

DR SILKE CRAM
She is a biologist and researcher at the UNAM Institute of Geography. She has a degree in Biology, a Master of Science from the UNAM Faculty of Sciences and a PhD in Agronomy from the Hohenheim Agricultural University, Stuttgart, Germany. She is currently Executive Secretary of REPSA and Titular “B” researcher. Her research topics are soil conservation and degradation, pollution from mining and oil activities, and she has recently focused her interest on the importance of soils in cities. She has carried out research projects on conservation and sustainable management of biodiversity, and she is part of a working group that discusses comprehensive risk assessment models. She has participated in several multidisciplinary projects such as: “Geopark Mixteca Alta”, “Evaluation of ecosystem services of urban soils”. She teaches graduate level courses on Soil Degradation and Contamination and undergraduate courses in Earth Sciences and Biology: Soil Restoration, Geoscree Restoration, and Environmental Diagnosis and Risk Assessment.

www.repsa.unam.mx/
IG @repsa_cu

BÁRBARA FOULKES (City of Buenos Aires, 1982)
She is an artist, choreographer and cultural manager. Her work is linked to interdisciplinary, developing exhibition works and art education. Within her practice, the body is the starting point of an expanded investigation. She understands choreography as the relationships established between bodies and ideas and approaches drawing and writing as an extension of the ephemeral, a way of documenting action and turning it into sensitive study material. Her most outstanding pieces are Arrecife co-authored with Colectivo AM, commissioned by MUAC; Fleet, Insist Insist Insist co-authored with Abraham Cruzvillegas; Nine point Eight co-authored with Nuria Armenta, among others. She published Cómo estar 10 horas de pie, with Gato Negro Ediciones 2020. She was a beneficiary artist from EMPAC, Experimental Media and Performing Arts, NY, Tanztage Berlin and Landeshauptstadt Munich Kulturreferat, Germany; Tamayo Museum, among others. Her work has been presented at SAPS, La Tallera, MUAC, Museo Experimental el Eco, The Kitchen Performance Center NY, Redcat, Pacific Standart Time, LA, Teatro Pradillo, Madrid, among other venues. She was selected as a 2019 Performing Artist by La Tempestad magazine. She lives and works in Mexico since 2008.

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10 Aug TRANSVERSAL TOURS – ANTONIO GONZÁLEZ GUZMÁN 🗓 🗺

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SERVE NATURE OR USE NATURE?

Transversal tour through Modthern Nature with Antonio González Guzmán

How is it that human beings have adapted and transformed nature like no other species? How did we go from collecting carrion, fruits and seeds in savannahs, forests and jungles, to producing millions of tons of grains and inputs to feed billions? How is it possible to grow plants in the most unexpected places… like in this art space? The answers connect various aspects of our biology with knowledge and work. In this tour of Modthern Nature, we will reflect on our relationship with nature, considering how humanity has gotten to where it is.

TRANSVERSAL TOURS
SERVE NATURE OR USE NATURE?
Transversal tour through Modthern Nature with Antonio González Guzmán

THUR.17.AUG.2023
18:00 hrs.
Free admission
Arte Abierto | 2nd floor, Artz Pedregal

ANTONIO GONZÁLEZ GUZMÁN
Hydroponic plant grower and inventor. He graduated in Physics from the UNAM Faculty of Sciences, where he taught physics and mathematics for more than 40 years. His deep interest in science and plants led him to a total immersion in hydroponics, which is currently his main activity. He was also the founder of the Hydroponics Workshop at FC UNAM, where he produces, teaches and learns about hydroponics since 2002. He has taught more than 50 courses and workshops in various states of the country and abroad. He was part of the specialists who collaborated in the production of the hydroponic culture for the Modthern Nature exhibition by Gabriela Galván.

Colección Arte Abierto. Julia Carrillo "Ese punto en el espacio", 2021. Foto: Oscar Caballero

07 Aug JULIA CARRILLO

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JULIA CARRILLO

ESE PUNTO EN EL ESPACIO, 2021

Ese punto en el espacio (That Point in Space) (2021) is an optical artifact that shows the capacity of geometry and reflective matter to guide light and build simulated spaces that challenge our gaze. When looking inside the piece, you can observe a game of infinite reflections that, in turn, generate a parallel scenario in relation to our position in real physical space.

Conceived as a light sculpture, the effect it produces is the result of a precise composition in which a series of mirrors are arranged geometrically. The abstraction that is generated represents, for Julia Carrillo, a tribute to The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges in which a point in space contains the four corners of the universe, that is, the Whole.

The art piece was created and commissioned especially for the Luz Instante exhibition that was presented at Arte Abierto in 2021 and which brought together seven works by Carrillo focused on the exploration of light.

JULIA CARRILLO

(Mexico, 1987)

She studied mathematics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She has a master’s degree in Visual Arts from the San Carlos Academy and studied at the New York School of Visual Arts (SVA). She has participated in various solo and group exhibitions in Mexico and abroad. She is currently a researcher at C3 (Center for Complexity Sciences, UNAM) and is a beneficiary of the Young Creators program of the National Fund for Culture and Arts (FONCA).

18 Jul VISITS FOR KIDS 🗓 🗺

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VISITS FOR KIDS

TO PLANT A HOUSE BETWEEN THE ROCKS

Modthern Nature visits for kids

These visits are an invitation for girls and boys to become explorers within the Modthern Nature exhibition by Gabriela Galván. While they walk through this interior garden created by the artist, we will be able to reimagine the relationship of nature with its environment through drawing exercises that combine observation with invention. Talking, listening, smelling and browsing, we will unite ideas in a blog to understand plants as living beings and rocks as their home and its city.

VISITS FOR KIDS
TO PLANT A HOUSE BETWEEN THE ROCKS
Visits for kids through Modthern Nature

ALL SATURDAYS of July and August
TWO SCHEDULES: 13:00 – 17:00 hrs.
Free admission | Limited availability
Aimed at: Girls and boys between 4 and 12 years old together with their adult companions
Visit duration: 45 min.
Arte Abierto | 2nd floor, Artz Pedregal
>> The group will form at the Espacio Arte Abierto Box Office, between 5-10 minutes before.

NOTE
This is a family tour, so girls and boys may not be left alone during the tour at any time and must be accompanied by their mothers, fathers or an adult companion at all times. Some activities and exercises will require your support to be carried out.

17 Jul TRANSVERSAL TOURS– MARIE-NÖELLE GUILBAUD 🗓 🗺

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ARE THERE VOLCANOES BETWEEN THE CITY OR A CITY BETWEEN THE VOLCANOES?

Transversal tour through Modthern Nature with Marie-Noëlle Guilbaud

The south of Mexico City sits on lava flows from the Xitle volcano, which erupted approximately 1,670 years ago. Now, the remains of lava from this volcano have almost disappeared with urban growth, despite this, many remnants still emerge at UNAM, mainly in the Pedregal de San Ángel Ecological Reserve. This lava, which is now a rocky landscape, sustains an ecosystem that is unique in the world. In this tour of the Modthern Nature exhibition, we will talk about the richness of this geoheritage and its relationship with life in our city.

The Transversal Tours are visits through the Arte ABierto exhibitions with guests from different areas beyond art, to expand the themes and points of reference from other gazes, perspectives, languages and disciplines.

TRANSVERSAL TOURS
ARE THERE VOLCANOES BETWEEN THE CITY OR A CITY BETWEEN THE VOLCANOES?
Transversal tour through Modthern Nature with Marie-Noëlle Guilbaud

JUE.27.JUL.2023
18:00 hrs.
Free admission
Arte Abierto | 2nd floor, Artz Pedregal

MARIE-NOËLLE GUILBAUD
Dra. Marie-Noëlle Guilbaud is Head (B) researcher in the Department of Volcanology at the UNAM Institute of Geophysics, which she has been in charge of since August 2021. She obtained her PhD from the Open University (England) in 2006 and joined UNAM in April 2010. Since then, he has developed multiple projects related to monogenetic volcanism in Mexico and its importance for geoheritage and the resilience of populations against geological risks.

15 Jul PARALLEL LANDSCAPES VISIT ONE 🗓 🗺

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PARALLEL LANDSCAPES

VISITS AROUND EL PREDREGAL

ECOLOGIC SPACE OF THE ANAHUACALLI MUSEUM

Guided by the Anahuacalli Museum team.
+ An exercise in experimental drawing by Escrituras vegetales.

To kick off the Parallel Landscapes program, the first visit will be a tour of the Ecologic Space of the Anahuacalli Museum, which is one of the treasures that the Museum houses. In this there are almost 20,000 m2 of endemic vegetation, several water wells, and a sea of volcanic stone from the eruption of the Xitle volcano. This tour helps to understand how the original architecture, projected by Diego Rivera, combines landscape with functionalist architecture and aspects of pre-Hispanic cosmogony; while the architectural expansion serves as a contemporary reinterpretation of the existing buildings and dialogues with the volcanic environment in a game with the rugged topography.

After the visit trough the Ecologic Space of the Anahuacalli Museum, Escrituras vegetales will share Nos habita un mundo vegetal que habitamos, an activity to reflect on the blurred limits of the notion of interior-exterior, and environment-contour, by which architecture has molded us. A collective drawing will be created on the windows and mirrors of the Anahuacalli workshop, taking into account the landscapes that are reflected and intertwined, playing with the borders of the environments that surround us and that shape the Museum in relation to the plant world.

PARALLEL LANDSCAPES
Visits around El Pedregal
VISIT ONE: ECOLOGIC SPACE OF THE ANAHUACALLI MUSEUM
Guided by the Anahuacalli Museum team
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An exercise in experimental drawing by Escrituras vegetales

SAT.22.JUL.2023
12:00 hrs.
Ecologic Space of the Anahuacalli Museum
Pre-register here.
Duration: 60-90 min. each visit.
We recommend wearing comfortable shoes, water and a hat.

Responsible Registration Policy: Your place is very special since space is limited, so we ask you to fill out the registration only if you can attend.
To cancel write to actividades@arteabierto.org

Enter here to learn more about Arte Abierto’s Parallel Landscapes Program, with upcoming visit dates and places.

Museo Anahuacalli
Projected between 1942-1957 and inaugurated in 1967, the Anahuacalli Museum is a house for pre-Hispanic art, designed by the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. Within his search to create a “City of Arts”, he projected the Anahuacalli as a great stage for the development of various artistic expressions in an atmosphere whose architecture represented the search for the Mexican essence.

http://museoanahuacalli.org.mx/
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