The Age of Discrepancy

Visual Art and Culture in Mexico 1968-1997

Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes (MUCA), UNAM
Ciudad de México, México

Curated by: Olivier Debroise, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Álvaro Vázquez Mantecón & Pilar García

November 2006

The Age of Discrepancy. Visual Art and Culture in Mexico 1968-1997 was the first historical, academic and critical revision of the artistic searches that were produced on the edges of the dominating movements during this period.

This was an exhibit that makes key moments in which artists from different generations and from different cultural horizons stand out. While disagreeing with the traditional uses of art and self-critical of their own practices, they set out to transform politics and formally the sense of producing art and questioning the legitimacy of the traditional pillars, the historical functions of art and the abuse of iconography.

The museography was planned from a large L-shaped free standing panel. In the uppper level of the panel, was the documentation area as well as a possibility to see from a different perspective the exhibited works of art.