Jose Luis Cuevas marks 75th birthday with exhibition in Monterrey
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Jose Luis Cuevas, the modern Mexican painter and sculptor who celebrates his 75th birthday this week, opened a show in the city of Monterrey’s Pinacoteca de Nuevo León gallery Tuesday.
The exhibition, called ‘Jose Luis Cuevas en Bronce / Jose Luis Cuevas in Bronze,’ features 24 works created between 1991 and 2008. Six were created specially for the show.
Cuevas is credited with sparking an art movement in Mexico that broke with the traditions of the past.
‘Cuevas was a founding member of the so-called Generación de la Ruptura, or Rupture Generation, a group of artists including Manuel Felguérez, Juan Soriano and Rufino Tamayo who broke with the traditional muralist style of artists such as José Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera in the 1950s to create a more abstract, less socially and politically oriented statement.
i’In 1981 Cuevas was awarded the National Science and Art Prize, the highest distinction bestowed by the government on Mexico’s scientists and artists.’
South of Monterrey in downtown Mexico City, the Museum of Jose Luis Cuevas opened in the early 1990s and is home to a permanent collection of more than 1,000 pieces donated by Cuevas, many of them his own work.
-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City