03 · 12 · 15

Gabriel Figueroa's work shown in New York

The exhibition “Under the Mexican Sky: Gabriel Figueroa – Art and Film”, organized by Fundación Televisa, is to travel to New York’s Museo del Barrio, one of the most important centers for Latin American culture in the United States. The exhibition opened on March 4th and will remain in place until July 27th.

Figueroa is one of the most emblematic of Mexican photographers, and the images that he created for the big screen played an essential role in the construction of the modern mexican identity. In the words of Fundación Televisa: “Figueroa forged a vision of Mexican identity and culture that resounded strongly with both Mexican and international audiences”. The photographer worked with a number of brilliant artists, including Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and Manuel Álvarez Bravo, as well as with prominent filmmakers like Emilio Fernández, John Ford, Luis Buñuel and John Huston.

“Under the Mexican Sky: Gabriel Figueroa – Art and Film” is made up of film fragments, paintings, photographs, posters and documents, many of which were taken from the Gabriel Figueroa Archive, and others from Fundación Televisa’s Photographic Collection, Film Fund Division and their Gabriel Figueroa Collection. In addition, the exhibition brings together the work of other similar artists, like Buñuel, Sergei Eistenstien, Edward Weston and Tina Modotti.

The exhibition has traveled to a variety of galleries and museums in Mexico and will be shown at the Arles Film Festival in France. In the United States it was shown for the first time at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and is currently at the Museo del Barrio in New York. For those who will be unable to enjoy the exhibition in person, Fundación Televisa has shared some images in high-resolution on their website. Don’t miss the online gallery here: fotografica.mx

The Museo del Barrio has also published some extracts from Figueroa’s film work, which you can see: in this link.