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BBVA Collection Mexico
The BBVA Art Collection in Mexico came about as a direct result of the respect and admiration for Mexican art by the various institutions now making up this financial group. The collection boasts 371 artworks by 167 talented Mexican artists or foreign-born artists based in the country. Taken as a whole, the holdings underscore the plethora of different approaches taken by visual artists in Mexico in the second half of the twentieth century.
Including sculptures, paintings and graphic works by masters such as Diego Rivera (1886-1957), Ángel Zárraga (1886-1946), Leonora Carrington (1917-2011), Mathias Goeritz (1915-1990), Manuel Felguérez (1928-2020), Helen Escobedo (1934-2010) or Pedro Coronel (1923-1885), the collection evinces the wide breadth of movements and tendencies that found fertile ground in Mexico, ranging from
the
Breakaway Generation
group of Mexican creators that in the fifties rebelled against the artistic movement of the moment. They proposed a new abstract lecture of reality, carrying out pieces whose style was completely the opposite of Muralism. Mauel Felguérez (1928-2020) was an important painter under this collective.
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New Figuration
an art movement from Madrid in the early 1970s. Its defining feature was a provocative use of colour in response to the darkness and the Informalismo of preceding periods. Its members defended the creation of art rooted in Spanish tradition, removed from the trends prevailing in Europe at the time.
and
Geometric Abstraction
A term introduced in the 1920s to name a kind of abstract art based on scientific and mathematical principles. The main goal was to eliminate all subjectivity in favour of art based on the essence of geometric forms. Its main champions were Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935) and Piet Mondrian (1872-1944).
to the
Mexican School
a term coined to refer to the art made in Mexico since 1921, the year of the end of the Mexican Revolution and of the beginning of the reconstruction of the country’s social fabric. This school included Mexican and international artists working in Mexico. Its main feature is its sheer diversity, as it embraces artists from various styles, ages and backgrounds, although their works tend to share a popular, mythical, national and revolutionary consciousness. Sometimes it also includes mural painting, although in its strictest sense it refers to easel painting and non urban sculpture.
of Painting. The BBVA Collection in México offers its holdings to audiences in the country and all over the world with a view to broadening their aesthetic horizons and to inspiring future artists.
Works from the collection