Luis Márquez "Luis Márquez in the World of Tomorrow: Mexican Identity and the 1939-40 New York World’s Fair"

Queens Museum of Art

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This exhibition features over 80 photographs by Luis Márquez (1899-1978), the official photographer for and art adviser of the Mexican Pavilion at the 1939-40 World’s Fair. Márquez fostered the image of a folkloric Mexico in photographic styles ranging from anthropological document to ironic theatrical tableau-vivant, often posing Pavilion dancers in their elaborate folk costumes against the ultra-modern World’s Fair pavilion architecture. The photographic negatives for these pictures were rediscovered by curators Itala Schmelz and Ernesto Peñaloza in the Luis Márquez photographic archive at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City. Of particular significance are five vintage prints that were originally exhibited at the Fair. All other photographs, which are digitally reproduced from negatives will be on view in the United States for the first time. In an additional highlight, the exhibition features a selection of traditional Mexican folk costumes that Márquez included in the Mexican Pavilion. These costumes are currently under the care of the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana in Mexico City. The exhibition will further contextualize Luis Márquez’s work in its historic moment with newspaper articles, interviews, advertisements, and World’s Fair memorabilia culled from the Queens Museum of Art’s 1939-1940 World’s Fair collection and other archives in the United States and Mexico.

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Schedule

from November 14, 2010 to March 13, 2011

Opening Reception on 2010-11-14 from 15:00 to 18:00

Artist(s)

Luis Márquez

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