For those inclined toward Mexican art and Latin American history, the University of Guadalajara’s midtown art museum, MUSA, has opened a large and fascinating show entitled “Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros – The Pending Exhibition.”
The exhibit, in five rooms on the museum’s ground floor, takes on the very unusual task of recreating the cancelled 1973 showing in Santiago, Chile, of the work of three now-legendary, communist-leaning, Mexican muralists, Jose Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros. In fact, the entrance room sets up the illusion of actually attending the original show, using life-size photos of the museum’s galleries, which are pock-marked with bullet damage inflicted on September 11, 1973, giving the visitor a big clue about the reason the exhibition was cancelled.
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