Painting as Exzcess. Some Considerations on Mexican Paintings from the Nineteen-Eighties to the Present

Abstract

The present text is a historical reconsideration of the current status

of painting in Mexico, gleaned from a series of exhibitions that took

place both within the country and in the United States during the

early 1990s. It also shows the tensions of criticism regarding this type 

of practice and how it is that a unique image of art in Mexico was

produced in relation to the specificity of this milieu. On the other

hand, the article describes how the discourse on painting was constituted

from a shared international dialogue between Mexico and the

United States that came into crisis towards the end of the nineties as

a product of globalization.