Lujos de nácar : prendas enconchadas en Tenochtitlan / textos, María de Lourdes Gallardo Parrodi [and four others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gallardo Parrodi, María de Lourdes, writer of supplementary textual content.

Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (Mexico), issuing body.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Museo del Templo Mayor (Mexico City, Mexico), host institution.

Series:

Museos y galerías

Museos y galerias

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Mother-of-pearl in art--Exhibitions.

Mother-of-pearl in art.

Decoration and ornament--Mexico--Exhibitions.

Decoration and ornament.

Indian art--Mexico--Mexico City--Exhibitions.

Indian art.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Mexico--Mexico City--Exhibitions.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Aztecs--Mexico--Mexico City--Antiquities--Exhibitions.

Aztecs.

Antiquities.

Mexico City (Mexico)--Antiquities--Exhibitions.

Mexico City (Mexico).

Templo Mayor (Mexico City, Mexico).

Aztecs--Antiquities.

Mexico.

Mexico--Mexico City.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

16 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 30 cm.

Edition:

Primera edición.

Other Title:

Prendras enconchadas en Tenochtitlan

Place of Publication:

[Ciudad de México] : Museo del Templo Mayor, 2019.

Summary:

The project developed by Dani Tranchesi, accompanied by Diógenes Moura, resulted in the exhibition Lindo Sonho Delirante and the book of the same name (Editora Martins Fontes). The writer, who also signs the curatorship of the show as well as the text and selection of images for the publication, met the artist weekly for a year for her first solo show at Galeria Estação, Tranchesi focus is on Brazil, the cities of São Paulo, Belém and island of Marajó. According to the curator, the exhibition with about 60 photographs taken in 2018 and 2019 is formed mostly by diptychs or triptychs. I tried to create a script in which the narrative possibilities between the images or each one are up to the viewer,ʺ says Moura. These are pictures that sometimes look at the rawness of lives and spaces in metropolitan cities, sometimes the dream that guards the Marajó Island, where still contemplating stars is an everyday act. The face of a city (São Paulo) is like an open book, as fat al as a sea wave, so deep with anguish on a Sunday day. On the other side (Ilha do Marajó), the insides place the sofa on the street doors to talk to comets, to make sure that unidentified flying objects will not dominate the buffaloesʺ, writes Moura. The photographer from São Paulo, traveled several times to Ilha do Marajó. In São Paulo, her research center was established in the central region of the city. The interest in others and in the different ways of living, recurrent in her production, remains expressed in the series made in Marajó and in the two capitals. Photographs of domestic environments, details of objects, atmospheres of beauty and welcome contained in the resistance of simplicity are opposed to the destinies of men and urban spaces abandoned in the wake of progress. Dani Tranchesi (1968, São Paulo) studied Communication at the Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing e Fotografia at the Panamerican School of Art. In her authorial production, the artist is dedicated to the diversity of people and cultures in the approximately 70 countries she has visited. Diógenes Moura is a writer, curator of photography, screenwriter and editor. In 2019 he was a semifinalist for the Oceanos Literature Award with The Book of Monologues - Recovery for Listening to Objects (Vento Leste Editora). Awarded in Brazil and abroad, he was Curator of Photography at the Pinacoteca do Estado between 1998 and 2013. He writes about existence, image and abandonment.

Archeological excavations of the Templo Major project in Mexico city have brought to light a large collection of shell objects, several of them pearly. In many cases these mother-of-pearl objects represent attributes of certain deities: the epocololli or earmuffs, are distinctive for Ehécatl-Quetzalcoatl, the anáhuatl pectorals, characteristic of Tezcatlipoca, and the xopilcózcatl earrings adorn the ears of the gods of music and dance. "The purpose of this text is to show the studies that have been carried out on these conspicuous groupings with pieces of pearly shells, whose name in Nahuatl is epnepaniuhqui.ʺ (HKB Translation)--Page 4.

Contents:

Lujos de nácar / María de Lourdes Gallardo Parrodi, Adrián Velázquez Castro, Susana Lam García, Norma Valentín Maldonado, Daniela Rodríguez Obregón

La conservación.

Notes:

Published on the occasion of the of the exhibition held between July and September of 2019 at the Museo del Templo Mayor in Mexico City.

Includes bibliographical references (page 16).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

OCLC:

1151866306