Eduardo Terrazas. Equilibrio múltiple. Works and Projects (1968-2023) is a retrospective of more than five decades of the career and legacy of the Mexican architect, designer and artist.

The exhibition comes from the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes and is organized in collaboration with the federal Ministry of Culture and the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature (INBAL). For its presentation at MARCO, Terrazas’ projects for Monterrey, such as Cintermex, located inside the Fundidora Park, were added to the exhibition.

The curator is Daniel Garza Usabiaga, who points out that Terrazas’ projects throughout his career “have stood out for their iconic character; moreover, they are united by his humanist vocation. Through multiple disciplines, Terrazas has created stimulating and imaginative works, many of which place the viewer as an important part of the piece.

At the same time, Terrazas’ works have a sense of innovation that seeks to reconcile the local and the traditional with modern and global art, they try to articulate situations of socialization, they reflect on different problems that constitute risks for the development of human life on the planet and, above all, they point out that reality is a field of possibilities.

In the exhibition at MARCO the public can appreciate not only the geometric composition and color pieces that distinguish Terrazas, with his technique of wool yarn applied on the surface with Campeche wax, but also have the experience of enjoying immersive installations, such as Exponential Growth (2014) or the recreation of the mural Imagen México, a logo printed on reflective metallic paper that he created in 1969 for the inauguration of the Mexico City Subway, which was included in the exhibition Graphics 1: New Dimensions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) in 1970.

In his production, the artist was inspired by a Wixárika tablet for the logo of the Olympics, which he fused with the optical art of the time, that is, he linked a local element with an international artistic current. This is also the case of his series Tablas, in which he can be linked to American post-pictorial art such as Frank Stella, and at the same time to the geometric abstraction of his Mexican contemporaries of the Rupture Generation, such as Manuel Felguérez and Vicente Rojo.

On a discursive level, the artist established a dialogue with the Austrian humanist, thinker and philosopher Ivan Illich, who was critical of Western ideology, industrial progress and consumption as a source of well-being. Terrazas and Illich had a bond of friendship and their intellectual dialogue can be appreciated in several of the architect’s works, a great example is the series Possibilities of a structure, a kind of metaphor in action in which he explores visual perception through geometry and composition that has expanded over the years, while reflecting on the positioning of the human before the cosmos, urban growth, among other topics.

The exhibition will be on display until Sunday, November 3. This exhibition is possible thanks to the support of the Government of the State of Nuevo León through the Secretary of Culture of the State, as well as the Municipality of Monterrey and the companies Arca Continental, Cemex, Femsa, Xignux, Frisa, Cydsa, Arte Expuesto, VMedia Group, TV Ruta and Exgerm.

The 122 works in the exhibition are divided into four thematic areas: Urban Environments, Tables, Possibilities of a Structure and Everything Depends on Everyone.