Otto Dix: Violencia y Pasión, 11 Oct 2016 — 15 Jan 2017
Exhibitions

Otto Dix: Violencia y Pasión

Museo Nacional de Arte – MUNAL, Tacuba 8 Centro Histórico

The Secretaría de Cultura presents, as part of some of the most important activities of the Dual Year Mexico-Germany, the exhibition “Otto Dix: Violencia y Pasión”, a display organized by the Museo Nacional de Arte INBA (MUNAL), the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO) and the Goethe-Institut Mexiko.

The exhibition, designed specifically to be presented in Mexico under the original curatorship of the Dr. Ulrike Lorenz, Director of the Kunsthalle Mannheim, has more than 160 pieces, among them paintings, engravings, watercolors and drawings are highlighted. This is the first occasion i in which a revision of all the aesthetic periods of Otto Dix is presented in Mexico.

The artist captured in his pieces, unlike any other painter of the time, “the century of the extremes in Europe” marked by the two World Wars, the culture of the Weimar Republic and the German political division after 1945.

Obsessed with portraying his reality, Dix encompassed a great diversity of styles and managed to capture a critic posture towards his epoch, expressing it through two emotions: violence and passion. His experimentation with the artistic vanguard and his experiences during the war, allowed him to find his own plastic language thus placing him as one of the most important representatives of expressionism and the new German objectivity.

The exhibition is divided in seven thematic cores which offer a comprehensive gaze of Otto Dix’s production, where the Mexican audience will have the opportunity to know the legacy of an artist who lived the traumatic experiences of the war; it will also generate as well a reflection on a very important period of the German history.

 

Contacts & Details
OPENING:
tue, wed, thu, fri, sat, sun 10:00 am – 5:30 pm

CLOSING DAYS:
mon

T: +52 8647-5430
M: atencionalpublico@munal.inba.gob.mx
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ADDRESS
Museo Nacional de Arte – MUNAL, Tacuba 8 Centro Histórico

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