01 de Apr 2009 - 31 de Aug 2009
With aim of commemorating the tenth anniversary of the death of the winner of the Nobel Prize of literature, the Museo Nacional de Arte was pleased to present Materia y sentido. El arte mexicano en la mirada de Octavio Paz, an exhibition that sought to bring to the exhibit spaces the approaches, associations, manifestos, analysis, and preferences of Octavio Paz regarding art. The main axis of this exhibition was the texts gathered in the book Los privilegios de la vista (two volumes shown for the first time in 1987), without making aside essential texts like Las peras del olmo (1957), Puertas al campo (1966), and Corriente alterna (1967). Paz wrote, “moved by admiration, curiosity, outrage, complicity, and surprise…”
Materia y sentido sought the realization of the eternal and indissoluble link between the plastic and the literature, a relationship that cast the glance of Octavio Paz in multiple topics.