Mexico City, July 29. Cadaverous sculptures that compel us to look into the mirror of death and paintings depicting crucifixion scenes await viewers at Daniel Hourdé in Mexico, an exhibition at the Museo de la Cancillería . During the inauguration, the French artist celebrated the “extraordinary opportunity” to show his work in Mexico for the first time, because he sees correlations between pre-Columbian and post-Conquest Mexican art: “There are similarities between the themes, such as the expression of vanity and its transgression of death . ”
Twenty sculptures, drawings, paintings, and decorative objects make up this exhibition installed in the viceregal building in the Historic Center , a few blocks from the tzompantlis with skulls at the Templo Mayor. "Paris-Tenochtitlan" was added to the title of the exhibition, which links France and Mexico with the fascination with the representation of death.
“Art contributes to life. Viva México!” the sculptor and artist exclaimed in a speech he made an effort to deliver in Spanish during the opening ceremony led Wednesday night by Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón and the French ambassador, Jean-Pierre Asvazadourian .
The Secretary of Foreign Affairs stated that this contemporary work of French art shares essential symbolic and civilizing ties with Mexico that ultimately build the strength and depth of the relationship between peoples. "Culture is not only not a luxury, but an essential dimension of relations between peoples. I would say that any foreign policy without culture is not a luxury."
