Beyond the Labyrinth: Latin American Art and the FEMSA Collection
Art exhibition

Mexican Cultural Institute
2829 16th Street, NW Washington, DC 20009

Wednesday, April 13 to Saturday, June 18
Free and open to the public
Phone: (202) 728-1628
www.instituteofmexicodc.org

This exciting exhibition highlights Latin American interpretations of modern artistic styles, ranging from cubism and surrealism to contemporary art. The show is unprecedented in the Washington, DC area and includes masterpieces from world renowned Latin American artists, such as Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco, Rufino Tamayo (Mexico), Wifredo Lam (Cuba), Roberto Matta (Chile) Armando Reverón (Venezuela), Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguay) and Fernando Botero (Colombia).

Artists from Latin America have consistently and imaginatively forged their own centers ably moving between Europe, the Unites States, the Caribbean, Central and South America and often instigating, igniting, and cross fertilizing some of the twentieth century's most far reaching and significant artistic movements and practices, from cubism and surrealism to constructivism and abstraction.

Organized into six thematic sections that span a range of modern and contemporary art practices, the exhibition explores how these interchanges have played out in Latin America in cubism and other early modernist tendencies, surrealism, the social and physical landscape, constructivism and abstraction, post-war figuration and neo-expressionism, and contemporary art and the new millennium, which together give a well rounded sense of the diverse trajectory of Latin American art over the past century.