Un arte sin tutela
Subtitle: Salón Independiente en México, 1968-1971 = Art without guardianship : Salón Independiente in México, 1968-1971
By: editado por = edited by Pilar García & Cuauhtémoc Medina ; Esther Gabara [and seven others]
Contributors: García de Germenos, Pilar, 1964- editor; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo
Edition: Primera edición = First edition.
Publisher: MUAC, Museo Universitario de Arte; Editorial RM; RM Verlag
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Ciudad de México; Barcelona, España
Language: spa
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9786073006606
Subjects: Modern Art; Exhibitions; Mexican Art; Intellectual life; Artists
Other titles: Art without guardianship :; Salón Independiente en México, 1968-1971; SI; Arte sin tutela.; Arte sin tutela. English.
Description: One of the most important initiatives that ultimately transformed artistic practice in Mexico was the Salón Independiente. This event yielded the possibility of group organization that would both generate collective, experimental projects and strengthen resistance against the established order. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1968 student movement, we present Un arte sin tutela: Salón Independiente en México 1968-1971 (Art without Guardinaship: The Salón Independiente in Mexico, 1968-1971), curated by Pilar García. Drawn from research into various archives, it seeks to present a historiographical account that documents and reconstructs the three exhibitions organized by the Salón Independiente between 1968 and 1971, as a key moment of artistic transformation in Mexico. The Salón Independiente united artists with both aesthetically and politically heterogeneous positions under an overarching proposal that, in distancing themselves from institutions and the commercial gallery circuit, connected new artistic vocabularies, explored non-traditional platforms, and offered new alternatives to the consumption of art. Its membersœ interest in erasing disciplinary boundaries, as well as in bringing art into other spaces, allowed them to experiment with under-examined spheres like fashion and film. The urge to create ephemeral, collaborative art ultimately influenced Mexicoœs artistic history as an instigator of dialogues with earlier experiences, and as a group that, even in its brief lifespan, successfully generated aesthetic and political radicalism amid social transformation. The key actors on this changing stage included Gilberto Aceves Navarro, Rafael Canogar, Lilia Carrillo, Arnaldo Coen, José Luis Cuevas, Felipe Ehrenberg, Helen Escobedo, Manuel Felguérez, Fernando García Ponce, Alberto Gironella, Alan Glass, Hersúa, Francisco Icaza, Myra Landau, Brian Nissen, Marta Palau, Tomás Parra, Ricardo Regazzoni, Ricardo Rocha, Vicente Rojo, Kazuya Sakai, Antonio Segui, Fernando de Szyslo, Yutaka Toyota, and Roger von Gunten. The first Salón Independiente opened its doors in the Centro Cultural Isidro Fabela in October 1968, in response to the discord produced by the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artesœs call for submissions to the Exposición Solar. This exhibition was organized as part of the cultural activities associated with the XIX Olympics and within the context of repression afflicting the student movement. In 1969 and 1970, the second and third gatherings of the Salón Independiente were held in the UNAMœs Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte (MUCA); from that moment on, its political dissidence was formalized. In 1970, for budgetary reasons, the third Salón used paper and cardboard as its working materials, and the works of artfleeting and experimental in naturewere produced in situ. This final exhibition was presented in the cities of Toluca and Guadalajara.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition held Oct. 20, 2018 to March 24, 2019 at the MUAC Museo Universitario de de Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 390-395).

Texts in Spanish and English.
Table of contents: title: Presentaciones --; title: El Salón Independiente como modelo alternativo de autogestión, práctica colectiva y experimentación en la historia del arte contemporáneo = The Salón Independiente as an alternative model of autonomy, collective practice and experimentation in the history of contemporary art  -- Pilar García; title: El arte es actualmente la oposición" Del Salón de los Independientes al "Salón Independiente" = "Art is currently the opposition" Salón de los Independientes to the "Salón Independiente"  -- Cuauhtémoc Medina; title: Visperas de la destrucción: episodios de una crisis institucional, 1966-1972 = Visors of destruction: episodes of an institutional crisis, 1966-1972  -- Tom Mcdonough; title: El palacio de mármol. Actores y polémicas alrededor de las instituciones culturales mexicanas = The Marble Palace: Mexican Cultural Institutions and a History of Controversy  -- Claudia Garay Molina; title: El desarrollismo radiante = Radiant Development  -- Renato González Mello; title: Mural efímero: desplazamientos estético-políticos (1966-1973) = The Ephemeral Mural: Esthetic and Political Shifts (1966-73)  -- Israel Rodríguez; title: El signo de la moda: Moda SI en América = The Sign of Fashion: Moda SI in America  -- Esther Gabara; title: La libertad como experimento: el grupo Cine Independiente de México (1968-1972) = Freedom as Experimentation: The Cine Independiente de México Group (1968-72) -- Álvaro Vázquez Mantecón.