Mexican Prints at the Vanguard
Mexican Prints at the Vanguard
Featuring over 130 works, the exhibition explores how prints were central to the artistic identity and practice in Mexico and highlights their effectiveness in addressing social and political issues.
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The Met Museum
September 12, 2024 to January 05, 2025
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Exhibition Details

The rich tradition of printmaking in Mexico—from the eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century—is explored in this exhibition of works drawn mainly from The Met collection. Among the early works presented are those by Mexico’s best-known printmaker, José Guadalupe Posada, whose depictions of skeletons engaged in different activities helped establish a global identity for Mexican art. Following the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920), printmaking proved to be the ideal medium for artists wanting to address social and political concerns and voice resistance to the rise of fascism around the world.

Additional Details

Featuring over 130 works, including woodcuts, lithographs, and screen prints, by artists such as Posada, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and Leopoldo Méndez, the exhibition explores how prints were central to the artistic identity and practice in Mexico and highlights their effectiveness in addressing social and political issues, a role of the graphic arts that continues today.

Location

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 5th Ave
New York, NY 10028

Image: Detail from Gabriel Fernández Ledesma (Mexican, 1900–1983). Poster advertising an exhibition of work by young Mexican artists held in the Retiro Park, Madrid, 1929 / courtesy of The Met Museum