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25/8/2012

Tomorrow Was Already Here

Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City

Curated by Julieta González

This exhibition examines the historiographical element to contemporary art through the works of artists who look retrospectively at previous visions of the future of modernity. It is structured around the paradox of the circularity of time, a topic often tackled in science fiction and which is built upon some of the predictions for modernity made during the Cold War.

A selection of works from the Museo Tamayo’s collection contextualizes the imaginings displayed in the exhibition in small displays as if in a “period room” which act as time capsules, offering various versions of the “modern” that vary between pessimistic, anxiety-filled expressions of some of the sculptural forms of the 1950s and early 1960s, and their relation to the specific architectural and technological concepts from that period.

The notion of potentiality, of the future that might have been but which never materialized, runs through most of the contemporary works in this exhibition. These transmit, at times, a nostalgic sense of loss by confronting us with the unrealized potential of these twentieth-century visions of the future. However, more importantly, these artists’ works tackled history as a way of understanding the present and creating a vision of the future, invoking, once more, the specter of utopia.

Artists in the exhibition:
Julieta Aranda, Fernando Bryce, Gerard Byrne, Johan Grimonprez, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Július Koller, David Maljkovic, Dorit Margreiter, Rita McBride, Steve McQueen, Matthias Müller, The Otolith Group, Jane and Louise Wilson; and works from the Museo Tamayo collection by Kenneth Armitage, Marta Boto, Enrico Castellani, Barbara Hepworth, Mathias Goeritz, Adolph Gottlieb, Julio Le Parc, Roberto Matta, Henry Moore, Victor Pasmore, Giò Pomodoro and Simon Starling, among others.

For further information, please contact:
Beatriz Cortés tel (+52-55) 5286-6519, ext. 2228 or prensa@museotamayo.org

Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo
Reforma y Gandhi s/n, Bosque de Chapultepec México, D.F. 11580
Opening Times
Tuesday to Sunday 10 am - 6 pm
Admission Fees
$19.00 pesos
Free entry for students, teachers, senior citizens with valid ID
Free entry on Sundays

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