The time is out of joint
La Tallera
The group exhibition The time is out of joint (El tiempo está fuera de quicio) is conceived as a theatrical, disturbing and phantasmagorical stage for various encounters around editorial work and thought as a self-critical exercise. As an “out of place” scenography, the exhibition will be a platform for a publishing fair and a rich public program related to writing. In this sense, the exhibition is also part of the commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the School of Art Criticism.
On the floor of the main hall of La Tallera, the graphic composition of triangular patterns created by Gustavo Pérez Monzón (Cuba, 1956) for his solo exhibition AIRE is the framework for an exhibition that incorporates a series of works from the art collection of the Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros — La Tallera, as well as works by artists based in Cuernavaca, creating temporary reverberations that intersect with spectral, sinister and apocalyptic imagery. While the geometric intervention on the floor sought to evoke the invisible or spiritual dimension of abstract art, the group exhibition proposes to saturate “the air” with multiple works that occur in untimely temporalities. As a kind of spectral reflection of our times, the exhibition invites the public to engage in a self-critical reflection on an era in which humanity and ecosystems are spinning out of control.
The assembled works include the panels of the model of David Alfaro Siqueiros’ The March of Mankind from Earth to the Cosmos (ca. 1967); geometric paintings and brutalist sculptures by Ray Smith (Brownsville, 1959) and Christian Jankowski (Göttingen, 1968); a selection of paintings by Federico Barrault (Mendoza, 1981), Itziar Giner (Mexico City, 1983), and Eunice Guerrero (Taxco, 1991); and an installation by Minerva Ayón (Mexico City, 1985).
