Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo

Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo

Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color in Space and Time
"The point of departure for the chromatic inquiries of Cruz-Diez implies the unstable nature of color. According to him, color is not a mere pigment adhered to a solid surface but the resulting situation of light on objects, by the manner in which, eye processes light".

Resistance Projects: Nicolás Paris
"The challenge is to construct an extraordinary place, that serves as a mirror to a community, that allows the museum's education team an opportunity to find strategies that communicate the potential in art and the visitors, the opportunity to create connections using art as a tool".

Eduardo Aragón: Love to Dissidence (Tinieblas, 2009)

"As a result of some reflections around the conflicts that arise from migration at the border, Edgardo Aragón wanted to create an investigation around territorial limits in his birthplace, Ocotlán de Morelos, Oaxaca, one of the largest states in the Mexican territory, fragmented into 570 local councils, some of the inserted within others, which generates territorial conflicts related to cultural diversity, politics of space appropriation where the strategic code and politic to establish a limit is the 'mojón'(1)".

¹ mojón: From lat. hisp.*mutulo mutulo, -onis, de mutulus). 1. m. Permanent sign that's constructed to mark the frontiers amongst certain territories.