Wifredo Lam

The galleries of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey seem spellbound by the magic of the renowned Cuban painter Wifredo Lam who, throughout his prolific career, was recognized by important awards, such as the International Guggenheim Prize.


TOMÁS SÁNCHEZ

The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey presents Tomás Sánchez exhibition. A well-known Cuban painter, Sánchez is credited with having instilled a new life to landscape.

Endless palm trees; enveloping forests; explosive waterfalls in the distance. These are the typical scenes of Tomás Sánchez that he gives to the spectator to provide a new perspective.

Sánchez has transformed his meditative exercises into landscapes that do not necessarily belong to the real world, but are instead fuses images from his memory with states of the soul to form a tangible reference between his emotions and desires. What results are paradisiacal scenes that depict perfect times, spaces. ¿How are they perfect? They portray a sense of peace, happiness, melancholy or any other state of mind that we can experience.

Enormous trees, palms, lakes, rivers and clouds executed in oil, acrylic, pastel and stained-glass are all part of his idyllic scenes that at times seem repetitive but, as Gabriel García Márquez has said: “they faithfully emulate nature: there is not a single leave, nor brokestroke that is the same.”

One element that is almost always found in the work of Tomás Sánchez is water, whether it is a lake, a river, the sea or simply rain. Sánchez has said, philosophically, that his images of water are related to certain states of consciousness that one comes to only through meditation.

But his brushstrokes are not limited to capturing lakes, blue skies and rain-laden clouds. What also stands out in his work are the unusual landscapes he depicts that are formed by the excessive sprawls of rubbish and bags of garbage that taint our horizons.

EXHIBITIONS INFORMATION

Tomás Sánchez
inTENtions
Wifredo Lam



inTENtions

The exhibition presents approximately thirty of TEN Arquitectos projects created by the well-recognized Mexican architect Enrique Norten. The documentation, that serves to both register and prove that the different variations of the box introduce ways of transforming the space according to the project, form part of the show giving equal importance to all phases of the process: sketches, drawings and maquettes, images of analogous things, and plan or structure analyses are presented in a way similar to the maquettes and presentation images.