En defensa de La Revolución de Fabián Cháirez

This article addresses the work La Revolución by the Mexican painter Fabián Cháirez and the public reception of the painting, considering the events that marked his exhibition at the Museum of the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, in early 2020. The analysis focuses on the attacks and defenses...

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Autor: Soto Rodríguez, Mario Andrés
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.atenea.esteticas.unam.mx:article/2855
Acceso en línea:https://www.analesiie.unam.mx/index.php/analesiie/article/view/2855
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Contemporary art
Latin-American art
Mexican art
painting
Emiliano Zapata
Arte contemporáneo
arte latinoamericano
arte mexicano
pintura
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Sumario:This article addresses the work La Revolución by the Mexican painter Fabián Cháirez and the public reception of the painting, considering the events that marked his exhibition at the Museum of the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, in early 2020. The analysis focuses on the attacks and defenses that were put forward on the work and the artist himself, taking as a point of reference the three defenses of contemporary art proposed by Anthony Julius: the canonical defense, the formalist defense, and the distancing defense. It concludes that the transgression offered by the artist facilitates a renewal of the figure of Emiliano Zapata, since, by questioning the imaginaries of hegemonic masculinity, the painting serves as a queer piece of resistance. The work in question implies a reappropriation, resignification and a theatricalization of the figure of the “Caudillo del Sur”.