Embassy brings contemporary Mexican art to Seoul

The Mexican Embassy here brought 39 works of art to Seoul for a six-week exhibition that aims to showcase the nation’s influence on 20th century art.

The exhibition, “Outside-In: Mexican Contemporary Art,” begins Thursday at the Seoul National University’s Museum of Art and includes works from such notables of modernism as Rufino Tamayo, Francisco Toledo and Rodolfo Morales, as well as emerging artists like Guillermo Olguin, Amador Montes, Pablo Cotama and Valerie Campos.

The exhibition will also pay special attention to painter Benjamin Dominguez, who critics have described as weaving baroque narratives with a dissonance that is distinctly modern. Some 17 of his paintings will be exhibited.

“The exhibition aims to demonstrate the vitality and universality of contemporary Mexican art. Both expositions present Mexico as a country with a magnificent culture, a country of a wide array of artistic expressions that reflect the plurality of its society,” the embassy said in a statement.

The exhibition was organized by the state of Oaxaca, the Mexican Ministries of Finance and Foreign Affairs, and the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation, and in cooperation with the Seoul National University Museum of Art.

The exhibition runs until March 16. For more information about the exhibition, visit the museum’s website at www.snumoa.org.

(ephilip2011@heraldcorp.com)