Museo Nacional de Arte

Exhibitions

El museo del imaginario. Convergencias estéticas de la Colección Blaisten

01 de Nov 2000 - 31 de May 2001

The Colección Andrés Blaisten was conceived from a personal idea regarding the history of plastic arts in Mexico, placing in the selection of the exhibition El museo del imaginario. Convergencias estéticas de la Colección Blaisten the excellence of the realization of each piece.

The artworks that formed the exhibition were selected in terms of aesthetic convergence, a critical discourse that allowed the association of different themes, plastic approaches, and artists that worked in Mexico since the end of the 16th century to the first half of the 20th century. The title it was given was “El museo de lo imaginario”, which obeyed to this premise of analysis and reflection. 50 pieces were exhibited, they played with the iconographic and thematic relations of artworks of different times.