16 de Mar 2016 - 11 de Feb 2017
The National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA), through the Museo Nacional de Arte, honors the family Maples Arce Vermeersch who donated important pieces in 1985, 1992 and 2015. Among these pieces, there are oils, watercolors, drawings, gouaches, plates, impressions, photographs, and furniture.
With an integral vision and meeting the requirements of its historic program of donations, the Museo Nacional de Arte offered to the general public, and for the knowledge of specialists, a selection of artworks. The latter allowed us to delve into the personality of Manuel Maples Arce who was a poet, literate and collector born in Papantla, Veracruz on May 1st, 1900 and died in Mexico City, 1981.
Manuel Maples Arce was head and leader of the Stridentism movement (1921-1927), a group that proposed an aesthetic transformation in daily life matters by creating literates, poets and artists like Germán List Arzubide (1898-1998), Salvador Gallardo (1893-1981), Arqueles Vela (1899-1977), Miguel Aguillón Guzmán (1898-1995), Ramón Alva de la Canal (1892-1985), Fermín Revueltas (1901-1935) and Germán Cueto (1893-1975). The members of the Stridentist movement achieved one of the most relevant moments to the vanguards of the first half of the 20th century, in the national and international context.
The museum is especially grateful to Mireya Maples Vermeersch for having continued with the vocation and aims of her parents by sharing the artworks with the Mexican people. She has also worked as an integral part of the curatorial team, especially regarding the mentoring of said project.