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What's better than the expo Imagenes del mexicano, Palais des Beaux-Arts, rue Ravenstein Brussels (not to be confused with the Museum of Fine Arts).
We are greeted by a giant Olmec head (wrong) and a room of pre-Columbian objects (real) loaned by the Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City and then an overview of Mexican history through painting, from the frozen portraits of early settlers and other clergy, through the testimony on ethnic minorities and the great era of the haciendas, to painting revolutionary, even with Rivera, Siqueiros and Orosco, not to mention, more recently, photographs of Tina Modotti, and silent films, particularly those of Eisenstein . A very telling picture and a very wise choice of works. I would have spent the night ...
In the lobby, a super-fun exhibition of animals fabulous wooden or paper mache, the alebrijes, and I remembered the many giants alebrijes decorating the streets and parks - all the atmosphere of Mexico.
These exhibitions are part of a more comprehensive festival, organized during the English presidency of the EU in the same place and the exhibitions El Greco Frida Kahlo, and also shows lucha libre , for lovers ...
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