Geles Cabrera: Museo Escultórico Pocket Book

Geles Cabrera: Museo Escultórico Pocket Book

Edited by Aimé Iglesias Lukin and Karen Marta 

This is a fully illustrated pocket book released to accompany the same-titled exhibition at Americas Society, curated by Aimé Iglesias Lukin, Tie Jojima, and Rachel Remick.

Geles Cabrera, the subject of the Americas Society exhibition, was born in Mexico City in 1926. Cabrera studied at Mexico’s Academia Nacional de San Carlos and La Esmeralda art schools, where she began working in sculpture. At the time, sculpture was almost exclusively practiced by male artists, and women were dissuaded from pursuing a career in this discipline. However, Cabrera persisted and by 1949, had her first solo exhibition at the Mont-Orendáin Gallery in Mexico City. Cabrera found artistic success in the 1950s alongside the Generación de la Ruptura (“Breakaway Generation”), a grouping of Mexican artists who, from the 1950s onward, diverged from the legacies of Mexican muralism. Cabrera’s abstracted human forms aligned with shifts in Mexican art away from representation and nationalism—embodied in muralism—toward abstraction and individualism.

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Learn more about exhibition Geles Cabrera: Museo Escultórico at Americas Society.

Table of contents

• Foreword by Susan Segal
• A Museum of One’s Own by Aimé Iglesias Lukin
• Carving Life into Stone by Rachel Remick
• Hacia la Danza: Sculpture, Dance, and the City by Tie Jojima
• Works
• Chronology by Tie Jojima
• Credits
• Acknowledgments

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You can purchase the catalogue here.