2 de octubre no se olvida - 2nd October won't be forgotten
Not only France or the USA had a tragic young movement in 1968. Mexico is commemorating a very dramatic moment in the history of Mexico: the student movement. Students took the streets and the squares and even the Mexican Autonomous National University. The government got scared of the movement as the Olympic games were approaching and entered the university and shot at the mass of students and families in the Square of Tlatelolco. It was never known how many dead they were, everything was erased as a pencil mark by the Diaz Ordaz govenment. Only now, 40 years after, photographs and documents are starting to be available for press and public. Shameful story this chapter in Mexican history!
The artists, like every year keep commemorating. Here the invitation for the art exhibition on the 40th year after the killings. My sister Monica Polin is one of the artists.
Text about the exhibition in Spanish.
The beautiful logo, designed by Lance Wyman, of the Olympic games would always be attached to the tragic student movement.
Look here, here, here, here, and for hard stomachs also here.
Not only France or the USA had a tragic young movement in 1968. Mexico is commemorating a very dramatic moment in the history of Mexico: the student movement. Students took the streets and the squares and even the Mexican Autonomous National University. The government got scared of the movement as the Olympic games were approaching and entered the university and shot at the mass of students and families in the Square of Tlatelolco. It was never known how many dead they were, everything was erased as a pencil mark by the Diaz Ordaz govenment. Only now, 40 years after, photographs and documents are starting to be available for press and public. Shameful story this chapter in Mexican history!
The artists, like every year keep commemorating. Here the invitation for the art exhibition on the 40th year after the killings. My sister Monica Polin is one of the artists.
Text about the exhibition in Spanish.
The beautiful logo, designed by Lance Wyman, of the Olympic games would always be attached to the tragic student movement.
Look here, here, here, here, and for hard stomachs also here.
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No faltes Una exposición inédita para conmemorar el 40 aniversario del movimiento del 68
* Inauguración jueves 2 de octubre, Museo Histórico de Tlalpan y Casa Frissac, 19:00 horas
* Pinturas, esculturas e instalaciones referentes a los sucesos del 68
El tiempo pasa y de algún modo lo ocurrido en aquella explanada sigue hiriendo nuestra memoria. Ahora, 40 años más tarde, la comunidad de artistas plásticos se une para expresar su sentir ante la represión e intolerancia de aquellos sucesos ocurridos en 1968, con la exposición "México 68. 2 de octubre, 40 años", que se inaugurará el jueves 2 de octubre a las 19:00 horas en las Galerías del Museo de Historia de Tlalpan y la Casa Frissac. Ubicados en Plaza de la Constitución, Col. Centro de Tlalpan
En 1968 el inicio del hundimiento del régimen de la revolución y del partido oficial con la matanza del 2 de octubre en Tlatelolco, provocó reacciones y protestas entre intelectuales del país y de el mundo. El escritor Juan Rulfo fue uno de ellos, ya que en una reunión propuso que escritores y artistas quemaran sus cartillas de elector en pleno zócalo, como protesta.
Esto ocurrió hace 40 años y no se ha acabado de aclarar la responsabilidad de los hechos y de los actores. Para no dejar que la memoria colectiva borre el artero crimen del 68, alrededor de 40 pintores formados en la escuela-taller de Gilberto Aceves Navarro y maestros como Oscar Bächtold, Maribel Avilés, Pepe Barbosa, Javier Anzures, Oscar Ojeda, Mariano Villalobos y Tomás Gómez Robledo contribuyen a mantener viva la indignación de estos actos, hechos que no han dejado de suceder aún cuando no salgan a la luz pública.
Las artes plásticas son un medio ideal para alzar la voz y mostrar el desacuerdo de estos acontecimientos.
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