Before the Eclipse

This exhibition brings together more than sixty artists who, during the 1980s, explored Mexico through a penetrating gaze on the pre-Hispanic past, the territory, popular culture, and the country’s transition toward globalization. Created between 1981 —the year the Museo Tamayo opened— and 1991—the year of Rufino Tamayo’s death and the total solar eclipse— these works redefined our conception of the national. In an era marked by socioeconomic crisis, political instability, and the devastating 1985 earthquake, the artists participating in this exhibition anticipated ways of entering and exitin…