Starting on Friday the 19th, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey will host the exhibition Literary Proscenios, the first review of the career of the artist Jorge Méndez Blake, whose production has stood out on the national and international scene.

Under the curatorship of Víctor Palacios, the original exhibition of 59 works was produced by the Cabañas Museum, in Guadalajara and was financed by EFIARTES in 2023, through resources granted by the company Tracsa.

As part of MARCO's institutional collaboration strategies, the exhibition comes to Monterrey in an expanded version, with 103 works on display that are distributed mainly throughout rooms 1 to 4 of the Ground Floor; Part of the production will also be exhibited outside the rooms. The complete Library neon series (2021-2023), with 17 works added to total 30 pieces of the project, can be seen on the walls of the Central Patio.

Méndez Blake has explored literature and architecture in his 30 years of career, in both cases from a historical perspective, either reviewing the classic authors of literature or returning to aspects of ancient or modern architecture. In the literary aspect, it addresses what is found around reading and writing, sometimes assuming the exercise of a writer without the final product being a book, on the contrary, it presents images, portraits of the artist while writing, narratives in videos, notes in the margins of the pages that are the trace of their reading, or framed poems that the public can read.

The mid-career review presents a journey through the artist's creative process and the interests that he has repeatedly addressed in his speech, under a chronological logic. To address these two interests, Palacios proposes viewing his production based on the term “proscenium,” which in the structure of an amphitheater is the backstage place between the audience and the stage. It works as a threshold through which you can move towards the audience space or go to the stage and become part of the work.

The MARCO exhibition program is possible thanks to the support of the Government of the State of Nuevo León through the State Secretariat of Culture, as well as the Municipality of Monterrey and the companies Arca Continental, Cemex, Femsa, Xignux, Frisa, Cydsa, Exposed Art, VMedia Group, TV Ruta and Exgerm.

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