A Handmade Modernism, Artisanal Design in Mexico, 1952–2022, curated by Ana Elena Mallet
The exhibition takes place at the MUAC at UNAM in Mexico City.
The exhibition looks at craft design that was produced in Mexico from 1950 to the present. It starts with Clara Porset and the 1952 El arte en la vida diaria: Exposición de objetos de buen diseño hechos en México.
This was the first design exhibition Porset organized.
The exhibition fittingly begins with designs by Porset. A number of them we part of the 1952 exhibition.
Clara Porset design produced by Ruiz Galindo Industries lounge chair, 1957
Silla Totonaca by Porset
Tea cart by Porset
Michael van Beuren
This Cynthia Sargent rug looked familiar.
On closer inspection it turns out that it was mine. Here it is. The collector I sold it to loaned it for the exhibition.
Michael van Beuren
I did not do a great job documenting all the artists and designers. Luckily the curator, Ana Elena Mallet, is working on a book. William Spratling and many other Taxco artists were represented.
Los Castillo de Taxco
Alfredo Ortega
This is the same master silversmith who lived in Casa Ortega by Luis Barragan.
Robert Brady did the tapestries and another Cynthia Sargent rug is on the right.
Mario Lopez Torres lamp from the 1970s and tapestry by Anton Refreger for Taleres de Uruapan from 1968
Giorgio Belloli
Clara Porset, Butaque, c. 1957
Michael van Beuren
Mas Porset
Edmond Spence
Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Equipal armchair, 1964
This is part of the contemporary design section. This is where my documentation dropped off entirely.
A lot of great designs. I mean a lot!
More about the exhibition can be found here.
It runs until November 13th.