01 de Nov 1998 - 31 de May 1999
The exhibition El cuerpo aludido. Anatomías y construcciones. México, siglos XVI.XX had a double purpose. On one hand, to show how the body in the plastic arts could constitute itself as an axis and vehicle for the existential and identity reflection for the human being. On the other, to make evident the particular characteristics that take the figurative process in Mexico, since the arrival of the Spaniards till nowadays. 200 artworks were exhibited, among which paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings, film material, installation, and art-object.
The exhibition invited to the reflection on the different questions that men have placed on its own corporeality. Said questions were evident in the plastic images gathered throughout the 7 thematic sections that formed this exhibition, and that concluded with mirrors in which the visitors confronted their own bodies.