La invención de lo cotidiano

Descripción

A major exhibition on contemporary art and cultural history comprising more than 150 art pieces spanning from the 17th century to present and selected from the holdings of the MUNAL and the Colección Jumex. The exhibition is divided in 4 major sections: Energy of the everyday life, Nature of landscape, Identity strategies and Resistance and anti-discipline. The exhibition was inspired in book "The Practice of Everyday Life" (1980) by French philosopher and theologist Michel de Certeau who analyses the ways in which ordinary men try to escape mass culture impositions from the dominating social organizations by altering or creating strategies to evade them. Includes artwork by José Guadalupe Posada, Dr. Lackra, Sharon Lockhart, José Clemente Orozco, Mardonio Magaña, Paul Graham, Bas Jan Ader, Michel Blazy, Michel François, Christopher Williams, Rineke Dijkstra, Ramón Cano Manilla, Paul McCarthy, Sherrie Levine, Jim Lambie, Gerardo Murillo "Dr. Atl", José Ma. Velasco and many more.