When the pandemic began, he too put a pause on his art-making. Though the pandemic put the exhibition’s planning on pause, it catalyzed Aguirre to search for a new way of making his work. “I’ve been looking at that space for a long, long time-it almost feels like home,” Aguirre said.
Aguirre first saw Ramirez’s work at the National Museum of Mexican Art and ever since, Ramirez’s art has been a touchstone for Aguirre. The two eventually met at an exhibition opening at the National Museum of Mexican Art through its chief curator, Cesáreo Moreno, and the idea of showing Aguirre’s art, curated by Ramirez, was born.
The murals of his youth, Ramirez explained, helped him “process how the world was unfolding around my community,” whereas Aguirre’s murals are “an opportunity to see and experience something different.” “I grew up in the Latino areas of Chicago, so many of the murals I grew up with were almost always politically oriented,” Ramirez said. “It’s very abstract, very lyrical, just formally incredibly beautiful,” he said.įor Ramierz, Aguirre’s work also represents an interesting shift in the history of Mexican and Mexican American mural making.
“I’m not particularly pursuing the route of an academic artist trying to show in institutions,” Aguirre said, “but I’m honored to be acknowledged in this way.”ĭan Ramirez, an artist and the exhibition’s curator, likened them to the legacy of Minimalist art. The works on view at the National Museum of Mexican Art- careful, abstracted landscapes in which natural woodgrain peaks through-represent this shift, where the sense of movement from Aguirre’s early works continues to shine but in highly controlled forms. Rubén Aguirre, SunscNational Museum of Mexican ArtĪnd now in his 40s, Aguirre has entered yet another phase in his art-making, albeit a traditional one: maintaining a studio practice.
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