Celebrating The Celebration Of The Revolution With Posters
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Celebrating the Centennial of the Revolution with Posters
Along the iron fence enclosing the grounds of the Museo de Antropología de Xalapa hang sixty posters in an exhibit called 30x30.
Below is the curator's statement, my translation:
30x30: An Opportunity for Reflexion
[The statement opens with the following quote:]
"The circus is on fire and the owner, instead of rescuing themidgets sells tickets for the next performance."
-- Jacobo Jabludovsky [Very little is simple or exactly as it appears in Mexico. This incredible quote which seems to summarize perfectly both the events of the Bicentennial and the Centennial was made by a Mexican journalist who himself was long a mouthpiece for the PRI, the Partido Revolucionario Institucional, and a corrupter of the newson the party's behalf. He is more than that, and not all of it bad, but a lot of it quite confusing to me as a foreigner.]
The statement:
This year of 2010 we Mexicans are witness to two historic events important in the life of the country: the Bicentennial of Independence and the Centennial of the Revolution. For those who are lovers of opportunism, this will provide an excuse for vulgarextravaganzas rich in advertising but poor in ideas. For the rest of us, all the way to the farthest corner of the country, these events will provide a great opportunity to indulge in ardent and sincere patriotic fervor. However, the economic crisis (more than fifty million Mexicans live in poverty), the millions of unemployed, the insecurity, the violence, the corruption, the impunity and thediscrediting of authorities oblige and will continue to oblige our collective imagination to reflect and to reconsider what should be celebrated, what should be commemorated.
The poster, the thermometer of society historically has been a presence and a comrade -- an accomplice at times in social struggles and demands.[Mexico has a rich history of political art: posters, cartoons, paintings, music.]For this reason, and to mark these days, the Instituto de Artes Plásticas de la Universidad Veracruzana brought together 60 graphic designers to express their ideas, their points of view, their feelings, through this medium. Thirty of the posters are dedicated to the theme of Mexican independene and thirty to the theme of the Mexican Revolution. This is how the exposition got its name, 30-30which also alludes in passing to that short-barreled rifle better known as the carbine..... [Carbines and other guns made by Remington started arriving in Mexico in the second half of the nineteenth century. I'm taking a wild guess here that carbines were the signature guns of Pancho Villa's crowd and maybe others during the Revolution.]
Jose Morelos, Curator
September, 2010
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Jimand I had parked across the street from the museum and had no idea these posters were on the fence. We'd come to see something else entirely. We realized later we missed all the posters addressing Independence and saw only those marking the Mexican Revolution.
Below is a sampling of those latter posters. They are wonderful and surprising. And disturbing and moving and sometimes funny. Aspeople like to say, there is no cause for optimism, but hope remains.
The poster above says: Revolution 1910, Regression 2010.
Celebrating with the loot from their conquests
Energy resources - lands - public education - workers' rights
The structure in this poster is the enormous Monument to the Revolution. I don't know the signifiance of BIBI in BIBICentenario, butunder that it says suckling public funds.
The legend of the beginning of Mexico is that the people who were to become the Aztecs were poor wanderers making their way south. They would know they had reached the place they were meant to settle when they saw an eagle on a cactus with a serpent in his beak. This poster is a play on that legend and that image which is seen all over in a more...
Along the iron fence enclosing the grounds of the Museo de Antropología de Xalapa hang sixty posters in an exhibit called 30x30.
Below is the curator's statement, my translation:
30x30: An Opportunity for Reflexion
[The statement opens with the following quote:]
"The circus is on fire and the owner, instead of rescuing themidgets sells tickets for the next performance."
-- Jacobo Jabludovsky [Very little is simple or exactly as it appears in Mexico. This incredible quote which seems to summarize perfectly both the events of the Bicentennial and the Centennial was made by a Mexican journalist who himself was long a mouthpiece for the PRI, the Partido Revolucionario Institucional, and a corrupter of the newson the party's behalf. He is more than that, and not all of it bad, but a lot of it quite confusing to me as a foreigner.]
The statement:
This year of 2010 we Mexicans are witness to two historic events important in the life of the country: the Bicentennial of Independence and the Centennial of the Revolution. For those who are lovers of opportunism, this will provide an excuse for vulgarextravaganzas rich in advertising but poor in ideas. For the rest of us, all the way to the farthest corner of the country, these events will provide a great opportunity to indulge in ardent and sincere patriotic fervor. However, the economic crisis (more than fifty million Mexicans live in poverty), the millions of unemployed, the insecurity, the violence, the corruption, the impunity and thediscrediting of authorities oblige and will continue to oblige our collective imagination to reflect and to reconsider what should be celebrated, what should be commemorated.
The poster, the thermometer of society historically has been a presence and a comrade -- an accomplice at times in social struggles and demands.[Mexico has a rich history of political art: posters, cartoons, paintings, music.]For this reason, and to mark these days, the Instituto de Artes Plásticas de la Universidad Veracruzana brought together 60 graphic designers to express their ideas, their points of view, their feelings, through this medium. Thirty of the posters are dedicated to the theme of Mexican independene and thirty to the theme of the Mexican Revolution. This is how the exposition got its name, 30-30which also alludes in passing to that short-barreled rifle better known as the carbine..... [Carbines and other guns made by Remington started arriving in Mexico in the second half of the nineteenth century. I'm taking a wild guess here that carbines were the signature guns of Pancho Villa's crowd and maybe others during the Revolution.]
Jose Morelos, Curator
September, 2010
****
Jimand I had parked across the street from the museum and had no idea these posters were on the fence. We'd come to see something else entirely. We realized later we missed all the posters addressing Independence and saw only those marking the Mexican Revolution.
Below is a sampling of those latter posters. They are wonderful and surprising. And disturbing and moving and sometimes funny. Aspeople like to say, there is no cause for optimism, but hope remains.
The poster above says: Revolution 1910, Regression 2010.
Celebrating with the loot from their conquests
Energy resources - lands - public education - workers' rights
The structure in this poster is the enormous Monument to the Revolution. I don't know the signifiance of BIBI in BIBICentenario, butunder that it says suckling public funds.
The legend of the beginning of Mexico is that the people who were to become the Aztecs were poor wanderers making their way south. They would know they had reached the place they were meant to settle when they saw an eagle on a cactus with a serpent in his beak. This poster is a play on that legend and that image which is seen all over in a more...
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