Leo Matiz, el muralista de la lente

Exhibition within the framework of the Mexico-Colombia Dual Year, to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Leo Matiz (Leonet Matiz Espinoza, 1917-2017), the renowned Colombian photographer whose stay in Mexico, from 1941 to 1947, had a significant and far-reaching impact on the development of the Latin American photography. The exhibition consists of six photographic series by Matiz comprsing 81 photographs that make up the exhibition speak as presences of the conversations, the relationships and the exchange held not only with the artists of their time, but with the taste, the challenges, the adversity of involuntary circumstances and the canons of current aesthetics. the one that adhered; There was even a license to evoke resonances of religious painting or identifiable compositions in Renaissance Italian painting, or to refer to the formal transgressions that emanated from abstraction and constructivism found in the unrepeatable moments. The selection of works present in this exhibition forms the first part of a large corpus that, together with the one exhibited by the Museum of the Palace of Fine Arts, show the technical expertise of the Colombian photographer, Leo Matiz; maker of images that reveal fundamental contributions to the aesthetic discourse of his time.