Archaic Futures
This exhibition brings together modern and contemporary artists who find their inspiration in the archaic, the cosmic and the mythological as possible scenarios for imagining the future. In contrast to science fiction and technology, in these works the signs that foreshadow the fate of history are the telluric, the material, the ancient and the spiritual. The future is proposed, therefore, as a temporality based on archetypes and universal meanings that are cyclical in art.
Olga de Amaral, Kenneth Armitage, Herbert Bayer, Álvar Carrillo Gil, Eduardo Chillida, Alexandre Estrela, Luis Feito, Gunther Gerzso, Mathias Goeritz, Adolph Gottlieb, Juan Guzmán, Barbara Hepworth, Lothar Kestenbaum, Roberto Matta, Joan Miró, Joan Mitchell, Henry Moore, Zoran-Anton Music, Louise Nevelson, Isamu Noguchi, Hiroshi Okada, Gabriel Orozco, Damián Ortega, Iracios, Wolfgang Paalen, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Gio Pomodoro, Ma. He took over Raventós, Earl Reiback, Mark Rothko, Wojciech Sadley, Susana Sierra, Melanie Smith, Pierre Soulages, Fernando de Szyszlo, Kiyoshi Takahashi, Antoni Tàpies and Wolfgang Tillmans.
Curated by Andrea Torreblanca
Curatorial assistance by Lorenza Herrasti
Images:
Cover:
Alexandre Estrela, Solar Watch, 2006
Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo Collection / Fundación Olga y Rufino Tamayo
Picture I
Álvar Carrillo Gil, Before the war, 1953
Museo Carrillo Gil Collection, INBAL-Secretaría de Cultura
Picture II
Rufino Tamayo, Lion’s Terrace, Delos Island, Greece, ca. 1965
© ️ D.R. Rufino Tamayo/Heirs/ Mexico/2025/Olga and Rufino Tamayo Foundation, A.C
