Three new exhibits arrive at Casa del Mayorazgo de la Canal in San Miguel de Allende

Published August 20th, 2023

Three new exhibitions have arrived at the Casa del Mayorazgo de la Canal. The exhibitions are entitled Atlas, by the Mexican artist of Dutch origin Jan Hendrix; An Antiquarian, una devoción, which brings together paintings and sculptures dedicated to the cult of Guadalupe belonging to the Rodrigo Rivero Lake Collection; and Arte objeto mazahua, which combines traditional Mazahua textiles intervened by designer Isabel Quijano León.

The exhibitions opened over the weekend and will be open until February 2024 at this venue, located on Canal Street no. 4 in the historic center of San Miguel de Allende. Admission is free, from Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00 hours. In addition, this Casa de Cultura Citibanamex offers free guided tours at 10:30 am, 12:30 pm, and 4:30 pm.

The Atlas exhibition brings together more than 20 sets of recently produced works in different formats by Jan Hendrix, including tapestries, screen prints, and watercolor aquatints, as well as a walkable sculpture of more than three meters in diameter entitled Mirror Palace Pavilion IV, Ficus R. Jan Hendrix’s work has been marked by the observation of nature, to which he gives new meaning through the use of various techniques and media, as well as formats, from the reduced size of a polaroid to the composition of a mural assemblage.

The exhibition brings together a series of large-format black-and-white silkscreen prints of fractured landscapes that document the emptiness left by the extraction of torn natural surfaces. It also presents, in monumental mode, tapestries woven with the Jacquard technique on a digitally operated loom that accurately reveal the dismemberment of trees and bushes or the high-contrast glow of a burning forest.

Atlas: A Collection of Recent Works by Artist Jan Hendrix
On the other hand, the exhibition Un antiquarian, una devoción brings together pieces from the Rodrigo Rivero Lake collection that combine the vision of an antiquarian and the devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe. In it, the visiting public will be able to appreciate a group of pictorial and sculptural works of the Virgin of Guadalupe that allow them to see the different ways and forms in which the Guadalupan miracle was captured.

Heir to a long tradition of antique dealers, Rodrigo Rivero Lake has continued to promote and disseminate Mexican art.

An antique dealer, a devotion and Mazahua Object Art
The exhibition Mazahua Object Art brings together 55 pieces of Mazahua embroidery, made by master craftswomen from the community of San Felipe Santiago, in the State of Mexico, such as Angélica, Lilia and Matilde Reyes Martínez, Juana Pascual Gómez, Nieves López López, Anabel and Marvilia Martínez Cenovio, Evelia García Martínez, Angélica Martínez de la Luz and Sonia Segundo Esquivel, which have been intervened by designer Isabel Quijano León.

This exhibition arises from a collaborative project with more than 20 years of trajectory and work between the master craftswomen and Isabel Quijano León, who collaborates with them in applied designs, transforming their works by making a montage that gives luster to each tapestry and embroidery and invites contemplation and admiration.