iMuseo Tamayo Arte ContemporáneoBosque de Chapultepec
El evento de un hilo. Narrativas globales en los textiles
"The Event of a Thread": 16 contemporary artists on the stories woven into textiles, an ifa touring show joined by 10 textile works from the Tamayo collection.
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Anni Albers, who taught weaving at the Bauhaus, described "the event of a thread" in 1965 as something with no beginning or end, a constant chance to rework connections. This show borrows her phrase and fills Sala 6 with rugs, quilts, tapestries, installations, objects and video by 25 artists.
The core is a touring show from Germany's ifa that has been on the road since 2017. The Mexico City edition adds ten textile works from the Tamayo's own collection, by artists including Rufino Tamayo, Robert Motherwell and Ben Nicholson. You also walk through the Bauhaus Space, a picture archive of the school's weaving workshop in Weimar and Dessau, built from Judith Raum's research.
The museum's questions are concrete: what a fabric says about where it came from, its social role, and the economic conditions its patterns grew out of. It runs until 3 January 2027, Tuesday to Sunday 10:00 to 18:00. Entry is MXN 95, free on Sundays.
Look for
The Bauhaus Space
Look for the visual archive of the Bauhaus weaving workshop in Weimar and Dessau, assembled from artist Judith Raum's research.
The Tamayo's own textiles
Ten collection pieces by Rufino Tamayo, Robert Motherwell, Ben Nicholson and others, where the museum says textile technique becomes a way to test abstraction, colour and form.
Good for
- Cheap Culture
- Nerding Out
With kids
Children get in free (the museum's visit page gives the cut-off as under 12 in one place and under 13 in another), and under-6s must stay with an adult in the galleries.
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- El evento de un hilo. Narrativas globales en los textilesCourtesy of Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo
- El Códice de AzcatitlanCourtesy of Museo Nacional de Antropología
- Alexandre Estrela. RedSkyFalls: RéplicaCourtesy of Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC)
- Museo Tamayo Arte ContemporáneoJosé Luiz / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Museo de Arte ModernoLuisalvaz / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Museo Nacional de AntropologíaHojarasca.mx / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Museo Nacional de Historia, Castillo de ChapultepecDiana du Vent / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0