Tamayo, Nieto, Toledo

The exhibition brings together works by Oaxacan artists Rufino Tamayo, Rodolfo Nieto and Francisco Toledo, who lived for seasons in Paris in the second half of the 20th century, a geographical area and historical period where they transformed their practices and brought pre-Hispanic aesthetics and popular art into dialogue with international avant-gardes. From different generations, they left their hometown to settle temporarily in Mexico City and then travel abroad. The three achieved their first recognition outside the country, away from government shelter. In the French capital —one of the…