Four new exhibitions open at El Nigromante

The Ignacio Ramírez Cultural Center, El Nigromante, will inaugurate on October 2 four exhibitions for the public of the municipality

Published September 30, 2024

The Ignacio Ramírez Cultural Center, El Nigromante, will host four exhibitions corresponding to the fall-winter cycle under the titles “Masters of Engraving”, “Revolutionary Print”, “Way Home” and “Time of Life, Time of the World”.

Through these exhibitions, which will be inaugurated on October 2 at 6 p.m., the cultural center of the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature (Inbal), seeks to highlight a recognition of its own teaching artistic community and projects that are part of the teaching and support circuit for creation.

“Masters of Engraving” is a collective exhibition that brings together, for the first time, works by the main teachers who from 1962 to date have led the Engraving Workshop at the Cultural Center, the exhibition includes 45 pieces by 11 masters who have left their mark on San Miguel students.

The second exhibition, presented by Ximena Berecochea under the theme “Camino a casa”, is a photographic exhibition that aims to make you reflect on the sensations that a person experiences when they live outside their country. This artistic production is the result of the scholarship of the National System of Creators granted by the System of Support for Creation and Cultural Projects of the Ministry of Culture.

“Time of Life, Time of the World” presents pieces made of paper, wood and ceramics by the author Alejandro Mejia, through which he refers to the passage of time, a contemporary exploration that unites the fields of science and art.

With the exhibition “Estampa revolucionaria”, the Cultural Center resignifies the collaboration with the National Museum of Prints, a space of Inbal that in 2010 promoted the project “Prints, Independence and Revolution”, on the occasion of the Bicentennial of Independence and the Centennial of the Revolution, and from which resulted a portfolio of engravings that are presented for the first time in San Miguel de Allende through two works: The Life and Death of René Derouin, printed at the Museo Taller Erasto Cortés, and República mexicana, by Guillermo Olguín, printed in San Miguel de Allende by Gilberto Guerrero.

The exhibitions will remain until February 5, with the exception of “Masters of Engraving” which can only be visited until November 24, 2024.

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This beautiful former monastery of La Concepción church was converted into a fine-arts school in 1938. Don’t miss the murals of Pedro Martínez, plus the Siqueiros Room, which features the extraordinary unfinished mural by David Alfaro Siqueiros (it plays with your mind – we won’t spoil the surprise). The rest of the gallery holds temporary exhibitions.   It is located less than 5 minutes from the main square in Street Hernandez Macias that parallels Hidalgo street which leads right in the Main Garden. It is walking through this beautiful area worth, visit its art galleries and get you some photos on your patio or in one of the arches of the first floor, but if you are thinking that the arts are your thing you can consider it as a study center for you because it is a nationally recognized school.