Colección Andrés Blaisten, Art collection in Mexico City, Mexico.
The Colección Andrés Blaisten is an exhibition space on the upper floor of the Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco, in a former Ministry of Foreign Affairs building covering 1,300 square metres. It shows around 130 works made in Mexico between 1900 and 1960, from Modernism and Cubism to Surrealism and the Mexican School of Painting, by Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros and María Izquierdo.
The collection began in 1978 when Andrés Blaisten started acquiring works from students and teachers at the National School of Plastic Arts. These early acquisitions became the foundation for one of Mexico's largest private collections.
The collection bears the name of Andrés Blaisten, the private collector who assembled it. It focuses on easel paintings and sculptures by contemporaries of the muralists, some famous and others long forgotten, and is arranged mainly by chronology, from Mexicans working in Europe in the 1890s to painters of the 1950s. Thematic groups such as portraits or urban scenes invite comparisons across the period.
The exhibition space occupies the upper floor of the Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco, a former Ministry of Foreign Affairs building on the southeast side of the Nonoalco-Tlatelolco housing unit, with 1,300 square metres of galleries. It is bounded by the Tlatelolco archaeological zone and the Plaza de las Tres Culturas to the north, Ricardo Flores Magón Avenue to the south and the Lázaro Cárdenas central axis to the west. The display is arranged mainly chronologically, from Mexicans working in Europe in the 1890s to painters of the 1950s, with thematic groups such as portraits and urban scenes placed for comparison.
The exhibition space opened on 22 October 2007 on the upper floor of the former Ministry of Foreign Affairs building, now the Tlatelolco University Cultural Center, covering 1,300 square metres. Its first show was a temporary exhibition on María Izquierdo, followed by shows on popular political printmaking, Spencer Tunick, Agustín Lazo, Francisco Díaz de León and Dr. Atl.
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