One night in late February, three hundred guests could admire the inside of the new museum building Soumaya and valuable content, but then closed its doors until now that has just opened to the public on March 28, to show the private collection of Mexico's most important art.
I had the opportunity to be on opening night when the workers are still working around the clock to finalize the details of fine work of the museum that belongs to the founding of Carlos Slim, the world's richest man, owner Telecommunications in Latin America (an expensive and poor service in Mexico) and so much more, currently embroiled in a pitched battle against the media power of Televisa. But that is another story.
The building of the Museo Soumaya, which is named after the late wife Slim, initiator of the art collection "is a bare metal structure that stands as a glowing sculpture in the urban complex of Plaza Carso (the name of the business group), a vast area where the buildings now sit offices Slim's companies, a recent development in the northwestern district of Polanco, adjacent to the railway railway Cuernavaca.
In architecture as in art, comparisons are inevitable. Thus, the Museo Soumaya is inspired by great artists of organic architecture, for its internal spaces, its twists, curves and its coating, has some of Frank Lloyd Wright Santiago Calatrava, Oscar Niemeyer and Frank Gehry. Inside, a ramp can move from one level to the next, recalls the similar design of Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum in New York, while outside the building designed by young architect Fernando Moreno, is covered by 16 000 hexagons metal which refer to the visual effect of Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.
The structure is a challenge to the force of gravity. Sitting on 28 columns tubular perimeter, is projected as a big wave suspended by tension and torsion effect of the materials used. Some say it is also similar to the chimney a nuclear plant.
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| Mexican President Felipe Calderón |
Beside Carlos Slim, at the opening, were not only the President of Mexico Felipe Calderon but close friends of the tycoon, as the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, and American journalist Larry King, who in his opening remarks, then shed the coat to show their symbolic ties, "she said in English:" Never have seen art like this , shown in this way. " Carlos Slim announced the Soumaya Museum admission is always free.
The 16 museum collections are spread over six floors have 7,517 meters of exhibition square. It displayed the opening night was a preview of the wealth that holds the stock. The 66 thousand pieces of art that represent collections of painting and sculpture, both Mexican and European correspond to the eclectic tastes of a private collection, which therefore has the advantage of covering a wide range of art disciplines and many expressions of creativity popular.
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| Juchitán Rio (1956), Diego Rivera |
Miniatures and Shrines, Applied Arts, Coins and Medals, Fashion from the XVIII to XX, Photography, Printing Commercial Art, European Sculpture Auguste Rodin and nineteenth and twentieth century, European Old Masters, Twentieth Century Mexican Portrait, Landscape of Independent Mexico, Twentieth Century Mexican Art, and Prints Devotional, are some of the libraries. On the ground floor exhibits a work so far known by very few, "Rio Juchitan (1956), a small mural mosaic Venetian the last one that made Diego Rivera, transferred on loan to the Museo Soumaya and the Suarez family.
On the top floor, the exhibition of sculptures by Auguste Rodin is considered the second largest in the world after the one that exists in Paris. Along with the works of Rodin, are those of Salvador Dali and other great artists.
The European painting collection includes works like "St. Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy" de Zurbarán, a "Immaculate Conception "of Murillo, or" Sacred Family "by El Greco, among the English, but also abundant emblematic works of Lucas Cranach the Elder, Rubens, Titian, Bruegel, Frans Hals and Van Dyck.
Mexican painting is represented by the largest, Rufino Tamayo, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, José María Velasco extraordinary landscape, and several foreigners who painted Mexico in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
I have not seen another museum in this country so rich and with a variety of works by such prominent authors. With more than six centuries of art available to the Mexicans, the museum is undoubtedly the most important in Mexico, where oddly places like the Museum of Modern Art and the Museo Tamayo, do very little to show significant works that maintain most of the time in the shadows of their warehouses.
my turn to return the Soumaya Museum to view calmly, without all the excitement and the deployment of security that touched me the first time that night in late February. I appreciate each work without trouble, just enjoying "aesthetic joy," as Sartre.
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