01 de Nov 1991 - 28 de Feb 1992
The museum proposed to address the academic thinking to inquire in the different searches of modern that Mexican artists undertook at the same time of the process of modernization in Mexico. The result of Modernidad y modernización en el arte mexicano- 1920-1960 was close to the rich debate implied in the different proposals to form a modern plastic in Mexico. The theoretical script and its monographic presentation introduced to the public the dialectical of Mexican art; among which, the collective proposals and individual experimentation, the regional trends and the cosmopolitans, the production of the national envisage and the international aperture, art with political content and the intimate reflection.
In the exhibition’s discourse, the changes that fed the plastic transformation from 1920 to 1950 were left aside. For example, the consolidation of the government, the progressive abandonment of a rural country and the consequences of the economic imperatives of the industrial development; the growth of the population and the capital’s urbanization.
Numerous private collectors and national institutions, as well as foreign, generously contributed, in order to gather approximately 280 paintings, sculptures, graphic artworks, photography, documents and popular arts that were presented from November 1991 to February 1992 as a sign, eco, and testimony of the life of our capital.