Ray Hernández-Durán, assistant professor UNM Department of Art and Art History, presents, “The Academy of San Carlos and Colonial Art History in Mexico: Nation, Politics, and History,” on Tuesday, Jan. 30 at 5:30 p.m. at the UNM Art Museum. The “Tuesday Talk” is held in conjunction with the exhibit, “Body and Soul-Ibero-American Colonial Art in Context.” The exhibition will be up through Aug. 5.
The exhibit, curated by students under the direction of Hernández-Durán, includes paintings, prints, books and sculpture. Many of the paintings formerly belonged to the International Institute of Iberian Colonial Art but were recently gifted to the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe.
Other works were borrowed from the Jan and Frederick Mayer collection, Denver, Colo., the collection of Dominic Serna, Albuquerque, UNM Center for Southwest Research and the UNM Art Museum. The goal is to present the material in a format that will aid in a better understanding of the original contexts of production, display and interpretation.