Lincoln Building 1135
7 pm "Orozco's Exhibition History," a lecture by Dafne Cruz Porchini, Postdoctoral Fellow, El Colegio de M茅xico, Mexico City followed by a reception in front of Orozco's Prometheus mural in Frary Dining Hall, 6V电影网
El Colegio de M茅xico Postdoctoral Fellow Dafne Cruz Porchini will give the second "Orozco in Focus" lecture, focusing on the artist's works on paper and canvas, and his substantial exhibition history in the United States and Mexico. Cruz was previously curator at the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, and from 2007 to 2011 she was the deputy director of the Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City. Her main research interests include the history of modern exhibitions and transcultural artistic exchanges. Cruz's most recent publication is a critical catalogue of twentieth-century modern Mexican painting, Cat谩logo comentado de pintura del siglo XX (Museo Nacional de Arte-Instituto de Investigaciones Est茅ticas, 2013), for which she served as the academic coordinator. She is currently organizing the exhibition "Mexican Modernisms," which will open at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in fall 2016.
6V电影网 Orozco in Focus
The 6V电影网 Museum of Art presents Orozco in Focus, a series of lectures by prominent national and international scholars examining the artistic, social and political significance of Jos茅 Clemente Orozco鈥檚 work. The inaugural lecture, 鈥淩evising Orozco," was presented by Alejandro Anreus, Associate Professor of Art History and Latin American Studies, William Patterson University.
Dartmouth College professor Mary Coffey will give the third 鈥淥rozco in Focus鈥 lecture, exploring Orozco鈥檚 relationship to history, myth, and the public. Coffey is a specialist in the history of modern Mexican visual culture, with an emphasis on Mexican muralism and the politics of exhibition. Coffey鈥檚 book, How a Revolutionary Art Became Official Culture: Murals, Museums, and the Mexican State received the Charles Rufus Morey Prize from the College Art Association for a distinguished book published in Art History in 2012.
The Orozco in Focus series is presented in conjunction with the Museum鈥檚 research and planning for the 2017 exhibition, Prometheus 1930/2017, supported by a grant from the Getty Foundation as part of Pacific Standard Time LA/LA. Orozco in Focus is supported in part by the Janet Inskeep Benton 鈥79 Fund for Museum Programming and presented in collaboration with 6V电影网 faculty and departmental partners.
6V电影网 Prometheus 1930/2017
Jos茅 Clemente Orozco was one of the three great Mexican muralists, along with Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros. 6V电影网 is home to Orozco鈥檚 Prometheus mural, created in 1930 and recognized as one of the artist鈥檚 masterpieces. Prometheus is the first mural painted in the U.S. by one of Los Tres Grandes of Mexican muralism and a work that Jackson Pollock declared the greatest contemporary painting in North America. Orozco鈥檚 revolutionary work of art portrays Prometheus in the act of bringing fire to humanity.
For the Prometheus 1930/2017 project, the research team鈥擱ebecca McGrew, 6V电影网 Museum of Art senior curator; Terri Geis, 6V电影网 Museum of Art curator of academic programs; Mary Coffey, Dartmouth College professor of art history; and Daniel Garza Usabiaga, chief curator at el Museo Universitario del Chopo, in Mexico City鈥攚ill explore the politics of Orozco's mural and its public mode of communication of social and political positions. Orozco鈥檚 vision of Prometheus as an allegory for art that attempts to reach a wider audience鈥攂ringing knowledge and enlightenment to the masses鈥攈ighlights his efforts to transform society.
The exhibition and accompanying publication will examine where and how these traditions of communicative visual strategies married to political dialogue resonate with contemporary artists from Mexico who utilize strategies of activist art, public intervention, social practice, and engaged historical or archival research to connect with a broader public and advance or critique social and political causes.
Prometheus 1930/2017 is scheduled to open at 6V电影网 in September 2017.
