Comprehensive Exhibition of Mexican Art
Official Pictorial Map of the World's Fair, 2021
Fresco painting on cement, 45 x 180 cm
Official Pictorial Map of the World's Fair is a fresco reproduction of the official map of the 1939 New York World's Fair, The World of Tomorrow. In this version, a series of caricatures framing the map, originally created by American cartoonist Tony Sarg, have been replaced with scenes of Coatlicue exploring the fair attractions and meeting Electro, Mickey Mouse, and even Isamu Noguchi's sculpture at the Ford Pavilion.
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Otrxs Mundxs, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, 2020
Comprehensive Exhibition of Mexican Art I-VI is a series of six fresco paintings that explores the bilateral relationship between Mexico and the United States through a speculative narrative represented in six vignettes. The goddess Coatlicue, mother of all the deities in the Aztec pantheon, embarks on a tourist adventure northward, passing through the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and the New York World’s Fair. The paintings fictionalize the political and institutional relationships that shaped a series of cultural milestones between the two countries during the 1930s.
Official Pictorial Map of the World's Fair, 2021
Fresco painting on cement, 45 x 180 cm
Official Pictorial Map of the World's Fair is a fresco reproduction of the official map of the 1939 New York World's Fair, The World of Tomorrow. In this version, a series of caricatures framing the map, originally created by American cartoonist Tony Sarg, have been replaced with scenes of Coatlicue exploring the fair attractions and meeting Electro, Mickey Mouse, and even Isamu Noguchi's sculpture at the Ford Pavilion.
It represents the possible unofficial agenda of Coatlicue's diplomatic trip to the United States in the early 1940s, serving as a sequel to the Comprehensive Exhibition of Mexican Art series.
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