On the evening of September 6, 1962, a group of young, avant-garde, anti-establishment artists who would eventually be recognized as part of the “Breakaway Generation” (or Generación de la Ruptura) occupied the rooms, hallways and gardens of an odd-looking house of unconventional proportions and geometries designed by Manuel Larrosa – an experimental architect in his early thirties. They hung abstract paintings on the walls, placed sculptures in unexpected nooks and crevices, used staircases and windows as backdrops for stagings and dance performances. That night, the house at Tepexpan 14, in the sleepy, cobblestoned neighborhood of Coyoacán, Mexico City, was transformed into the first Dynamic Museum, a project conceived as part museum, part theater, part happening, part get-together, by Larrosa himself along with former director of the National Institute of Fine Arts, Miguel Salas Portugal.
until 6 May 2017
The party was yesterday (an no one remembers anything)
curated by: Mario García Torres
Archivo Diseño y Arquitectura
calle General Francisco Ramírez 4, Mexico City