In August 2012, the Museo Tamayo temporarily closed to the public to increase and modernize the spaces we know today. After 9 years, the museum conceived by Rufino Tamayo for the celebration of Mexican and international art, is reborn in 2021 with a new exhibition.
Spanning all the halls of the Museo Tamayo, the anniversary exhibition, 'Beyond the Trees', is as expansive as it is historic. Comprised of five nuclei and displaying more than 400 pieces from the Tamayo collection, it tells the story of the museum designed by Teodoro González de León and Abraham Zabludovsky, from its opening in 1979, through its management by Televisa, to Tamayo's alliances with international artists, its pre-Hispanic treasures, and new pieces.
Celebrating 40 years of being a link of international art in the city, the Tamayo Museum seeks to show "the artistic and social complexities behind the inauguration of this institution".
The work that gives it its name, 'Beyond the Trees' by Erick Meyenberg, is an audiovisual composition that partly films the Madrigalistas de Bellas Artes choir on the museum's roof.
The works that Tamayo presented in his retrospective exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1979 can be seen in the first core, as well as in the fifth core, works by Joseph Beuys, Francis Bacon, Henry Moore, David Hockney and other artists who set the tone for cultural production, mainly in the United States, Europe and Latin America between 1979 and 1981.
The exhibition 'Beyond the Trees' will remain open until April 30, 2022. You can schedule a guided tour here.
