Discussion - Diego Rivera in New York
, 1931-32.jpg "Diego Rivera, Frozen Assets (detail), 1931-32")
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2829 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC, 20009
Phone: (202) 728-1628
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Mexican Cultural Institute
Phone: 202 728-1628
2829 16th Street, NW
Washington , DC, 20009
Phone: 202 728-1628
February 2, 2012 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Join us for this fascinating conference by Leah Dickerman, Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art and the organizer of the Museum’s current exhibition Diego Rivera: Murals for the Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition features pieces that Rivera made in the winter of 1931–1932 when The Museum of Modern Art inaugurated a major exhibition his work. Rivera – a forty five year old, openly Communist, Mexican artist – may have seemed an unlikely choice for the young Museum's second only retrospective, but the show was wildly popular. Rivera's international celebrity was based on his fame as a muralist.
But murals – by definition fixed on site – were impossible to transport. In order to solve this problem, the Museum brought Rivera to New York from Mexico six weeks before the opening, and installed him in a makeshift studio space in an empty gallery. There he produced eight "portable" murals – freestanding fresco panels – which were featured in the show. Five of these monumental works are now on view at the MoMA exhibition, along with working drawings and related material. This eye-opening discussion will focus on Rivera's extraordinary commission for MoMA, as well as his ill-fated mural for Rockefeller Center. Together these projects provide a compelling perspective on the intersection of art making and radical politics in the 1930s.
Leah Dickerman has been Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art since 2008. Prior to that, Dickerman was Acting Head (2007) and Associate Curator (2001-2007) of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (2007). Over her career, Dickerman has organized or co-organized a series of prizewinning multi-media exhibitions that offer new perspectives on the modern, including Bauhaus: Workshops for Modernity (MoMA, 2009-2010), and Dada (Centre Pompidou, NGA and MoMA, 2005 and 2006). Currently, she is preparing Inventing Abstraction, 1912-1925 (Opening in December, 2012).
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2829 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC, 20009
Phone: (202) 728-1628
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