Rufino Tamayo And The Mixografía® Years (1974 – 1990):
A Cross Border Journey
At Meridian International Center
October 3, 2009 – February 14, 2010
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Meridian International Center, together with the MIXOGRAFÍA® Workshop and Landau Traveling Exhibitions in Los Angeles, California, has installed nearly 40 signed prints by renowned Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991). These are on view at Meridian’s Cafritz Galleries in its historic Washington, D.C. campus.
“This latest Meridian Art for Cultural Diplomacy exhibition serves as an excellent example of cross-border relations, and the ways in which cultural endeavors between the United States and Mexico have grown and flourished,” said Ambassador Stuart Holliday, President of Meridian International Center.
Artworks included in the exhibition represent a cross-section of an innovative and fruitful collaboration between a renowned artist and master printmakers. Tamayo had been earning acclaim since the 1920s, while living in Mexico, New York and France. In the early 1970s, he began a twenty year collaboration with Luis and Lea Remba at their workshop in Mexico City, experimenting with techniques that yielded works on paper with volume and texture. This unique approach to printing developed by the Remba family is known as “Mixografía®”.
The Mixografía® Workshop editions in the Meridian exhibition represent one-fifth of Tamayo’s total printmaking output during his lifetime and are a fascinating excursus into the extraordinary plasticity of paper. Since Tamayo’s pioneering work with the Rembas, Mixografía® has influenced artists in the United States and elsewhere, and the studio, later transferred from Mexico City to Los Angeles, continues to attract those who wish to expand the limits of this two-dimensional medium. The exhibition, made possible in part by Tyco International, Meryl and Honorable Michael Chertoff, Giselle and Ben Huberman, Stephen Lesser, and Michael and Linda Sonnenreich, will be accompanied by programs created in partnership with the Mexican Cultural Institute and the Embassy of Mexico in Washington, D.C.
About Meridian:
Meridian International Center’s mission is to strengthen international understanding and serves as a center of innovation for engaging the public sector, private sector and diplomatic community in an exchange of people, ideas and culture.
Meridian’s Art for Cultural Diplomacy program organizes high quality, international exchange-oriented exhibitions in collaboration with government ministries, museums, artists, collectors and experts around the world. Meridian has employed art to build bridges among people worldwide and its exhibits have traveled to nearly 300 cities in 44 U.S. states and 30 countries.
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