Dallas Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology

Invites You And Your Guest To 
A Reception & Private Showing of

 "Mexican Masters"

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Francisco Toledo, Mujer con Alacranes, 1985
(Courtesy Adani Gallery)

Saturday, 
August 11, 2001 
at 7:30 p.m.
The Adani Gallery
5330 Alpha Road, Suite 300

Mr. Jacobo Kupersztoch will present a talk at 8:00 p.m. on "Latin American Masters and the Evolution of Mexican Art". Mr. Kupersztoch grew up surrounded by the art of his family and by the art displayed at his mother's art gallery, The Galeria Mer-Kup in Mexico City. He was a professor in Molecular biology at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas for 16 years. He retired from UT Southwestern last year to open The Adani Gallery (named for his sons, Adam and Danny), a Latin American art gallery that specializes in the Fine Art of Mexico.

Mexican Art emerged from the cultural collision of the Spanish conquerors and the indigenous peoples that prevailed in the New Spain. The strong presence of the Mayas, Aztecs and Olmecs with their unique properties merged with the then popular Italian baroque art style brought to America by the Spaniards. This hybrid seen in the Mexican baroque was the foundation for the development of important Mexican artists. The cultural wealth of pre-Columbian Mexico was a determining factor for the development of the iconography of Rufino Tamayo, Francisco Zuņiga, and Gunther Gerzso. In this informal talk we will visit them and other prominent 20-century Mexican artists such as Jose Maria Velazco, Goittia, Posada and others, ending with contemporary Mexican artists.

--- Jacobo Kupersztoch