01 de Feb 1993 - 30 de Apr 1993
The Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, through the National Insitute of Fine Arts (INBA) presented in the Museo Nacional de Arte a selection of the most representative artworks of Hermenegildo Bustos 1832-1907. The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey joined this effort. The fact of delving into the pictorial production of Bustos made clear that it was necessary to place the artist in his context: the little town of Purísima del Rincón, which is located near León, Guanajuato. Back then it was inhabited by a mixed-race population and this town was were Bustos unfolded in his social character of a local painter.
Hermenegildo Bustos, in a small artistic world, set the realism of human content as the characteristic norm of his pictorial language. Undoubtedly, the Hermenegildo Bustos 1830-1907 exhibition catalog contributed to the dissemination of lesser-known works and delved into aspects of theoretical approach, which allow establishing the stylistic and conceptual links that join his portraiture with the rest of his painting. With the purpose of demonstrating the evolutionist trajectory of the painter, the group was organized into thematic sections: portraits, ex-votos, devotional images, still lifes and physical phenomena. In parallel each of the pieces allowed the viewer to contemplate in isolation. This exhibition delighted the visitor during February, March, and April of 1993, with his genuine painting that he executed with great love and acute sense of observation for the people, objects, and events of his land.