24 de Nov 2009 - 07 de Feb 2010
When the literary and artistic modernism spread throughout Mexico during the firsts decades of the 20th century, Alfonso Reyes joined the magazine Savia Moderna and the Revista Moderna de México, once he arrived at the capital of the country from Nuevo León. It was in those publications that his firsts poems appeared and in the Revista Moderna appeared his essay dedicated to Julio Ruelas (1908). The latter was one of his weekly articles about plastic arts that, even though years later he considered discreet was praised by Justino Fernández in Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de México. The exhibition Alfonso Reyes y los territorios del arte was prepared to commemorate the 120th anniversary of his birthday and the 50th anniversary of his death, through a project in which art, literature and the cinema were linked under the author’s voice in a detailed literary and aesthetical exercise to open new lines of research and appreciation of plastic arts in the artworks of Alfonso Reyes.