Record: Tamayo Museum

Exhibition LIGA–Archivos

Record: Tamayo Museum

Exhibition LIGA–Archivos

 

Record: Tamayo Museum
Exhibition LIGA–Archivos
April – August 2022

In October 2021, a special event happened: the Tamayo Museum was presented to the public for two days without exhibitions, as an empty building. The proposal formed part of the celebration of the 40th anniversary of this iconic building of Mexican architecture, designed by architects Teodoro González de León and Abraham Zabludovsky, and inaugurated in 1971.

LIGA, Space for architecture commissioned 6 young architectural photographers to take a new series of images of the building. The exhibition presents the views of Arturo Arrieta, César Béjar, Luis Gallardo, Onnis Luque, Ariadna Polo y Luis Young. In dialogue with the curators, each photographer chose a work to be shown on the wall, and a series of images to be consulted by the public on the central stand.

In this case, the museum becomes the work of art itself, by liberating it from the function for which it was conceived, as an exhibitor of others, and becoming the centerpiece of the show. Each photographer offers new interpretations of the space through a contemporary and personal reconstruction.

The central display was commissioned by LIGA and built in structural steel, donated by Gerdau Corsa, a great ally and supporter of our initiative. For its construction a 24” and 1-ton IR beam was used, weighing 55 pounds per foot, made of high-strength, low-alloy steel produced from 94% recycled material in an electric arc furnace. This beam was originally 12.20 m long and 1.09 m high, and was cut and shaped to build the angular exhibition pedestals.

 

Curators: Frida Mouchlian and Arturo Arrieta.

Photography: Arturo Arrieta