Wolfgang Paalen. Cristales de la mente

In 2012, the Museum of Mexico City holds a major posthumous exhibition on Bridget Bate Tichenor (1917-1990), an English painter based in Mexico. Her friends, the artists Alan Glass and Pedro Friedeberg, visit the exhibition and comment on aspects of her work and life, such as her closeness to the European aristocracy and her time as a model and editor of Vogue in New York. She painted for 20 years on her ranch in Ario de Rosales, Michoacán.

Leon Trotsky was granted political asylum in Mexico in 1937 after escaping Stalinist persecution. He lived in the neighborhood of Coyoacán, in Mexico City, where he wrote his last political works. His grandson Esteban Volkow is the last living witness of the two murder attempts and eventual assassination of his grandfather. Ninety-year-old Esteban recounts family life at the house, now a museum, and shares his memories of the revolutionary figure’s tragic end.

The last living surrealist, Alan Glass, known for his boxes and assemblages, found in flea markets of Paris and Mexico the material for creating. From his youth, he consolidated his fascination for everything 'made in France'. Now, the artist show us their findings in nearly 60 years in an intimate, surprising and eventful display of nostalgia for a vanished world of perfumes, fans, labels and souvenirs surviving thanks to his artistic work.