ABOUT THE TAMAYO BIENNIAL
Tamayo's purpose in founding the Biennial of Painting was to promote and strengthen the pictorial expressions of the country. In this sense, the contest continues with this purpose and contributes to the exploration of artists in innovating and offering various approaches to this discipline, maintaining spaces for the exhibition and reflection of the works created in this medium.
The jury established the selection method with the purpose of starting a conversation between different ways of understanding painting respecting approaches, traditions and challenges faced by each creator. The selection jury was convened by the Secretariat of Culture, the National Institute of Fine Arts, the Secretariat of Cultures and Arts of Oaxaca, the Rufino Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Oaxaca, and the Olga y Rufino Tamayo Foundation.
The jury reviewed a total of 817 records of participating artists, who entered 1634 works for this contest and selected 51 works by 51 artists, which will make up the Itinerant exhibition that will remain open to the public at
Starting on October 29, 2020 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Oaxaca, and will culminate at the Rufino Tamayo Museum in Mexico City.
ART PIECE
The title of the work is "Interweaved";
The piece is an assembly made of a Mexican hammock with pieces of cloth and paper sewn together. The sewn parts form a tapestry, a composition that looks like a single piece, although it is made of fragments. The piece is then intervened with paint and wears and wears away, revealing a sense of the passage of time.
