31 de Mar 2010 - 20 de Jun 2010
El Éxodo mexicano. Los héroes en la mira del arte was an exhibition that gathered exemplary artworks of great Mexican artists outside their fields. This was done thanks to one of the most original historiographical thesis within the past years. For example, the painting of Juan Diego of the Catedral Metropolitana and the one of Benito Juárez of the collection of the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit of Mexico.
The project explored the possibility that the national heroes could be translated into the figure of a Moses, a guide that leads, by a superior authority, the destiny of its people; it is the result of a thematic approach concerning the most recognized Mexican heroes. The heroes, models of behavior that embodied our values, carried out the ideals of an independent Mexico. The visual representations in which we recognize them, beyond their cultural and ideological significance, also served a series of functional models that highlighted their values.
This exhibition was organized from a group of heroes who shared, in some way, the same identity. Their representations obeyed to the desire of promoting political programs like founding cities, proclaiming laws, eradicating the “evil”, receiving inspiration from heaven, leading the fight, entering triumphant into the city, shaping their image of authority in a portrait, resisting the tyrant or suffering martyrdom and rising as emblems of their ideals.