Mensaje

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Artist Matthias Goeritz(Mexican, born Germany, 1915–1990)Mexican, born Germany, 1915–1990

CultureMexican

Titles

Mensaje

Date1958–1962

MediumHammered brass and iron nails on board

Dimensions48 1/4 × 24 × 1 in. (122.6 × 61 × 2.5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the 2019 Latin American Experience Gala and Auction

Object number2020.138

Current Location

The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building

Gallery 205

Exposé

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Department

Latin American Art

Object Type

METALWORK

DescriptionAl
yuxtaponer superficies lisas y melladas con clavos martillados a través de la
hoja metálica y desecho industrial de las villas-miseria de México, Mensaje engloba el deseo de Goeritz de
producir una vivencia espiritual vía arte. Llegó a esta experiencia mediante un
proceso de performance reiterativa. La obra configura, también, su interés por
el arte religioso y rechazo a la estética decadente del medio artístico. Igual
a las pinturas animistas de Elsa Gramcko, la serie manifiesta el anhelo de
dotar al desecho industrial con vida.
ProvenanceThe artist; Héctor Azar, Mexico City, 1962; by inheritance to Sara Stieglitz; [Henrique Faria Fine Art, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2020.
Exhibition HistoryHenrique Faria Fine Art, New York, 2019.
Published References The Mensaje series has been widely published in various scholarly works about Goeritz. These include: Josten, Jennifer. Mathias Goeritz: Modernist Art and Architecture in Cold War Mexico. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. Kassner, Lily. Mathias Goeritz. Queretaro: Editorial A Toda Maquina, 2014. Ochoa de Zabalegui, Teresa. El retorno de la serpiente: Mathias Goeritz y la arquitectura emocional. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2014. Rodriguez Prampolini, Ida and Feruccio Asta. Los ecos de Mathias Goeritz. Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1997. Ruy Sánchez, Alberto, Margarita Orellana, and Gabriel Olmos. Mathias Goeritz: obsesión creativa. Mexico City: Artes de México, 2014.

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