Fernando Gamboa (artist)

Fernando Gamboa (born February 28, 1909 in Mexico City ; † May 7, 1990 there ) was a Mexican artist and museographer.

biography

Gamboa studied painting, sculpture and art history at the Academia de San Carlos from 1926 to 1930 and then worked for the Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP), was inspector of fine arts at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA) and professor of Mexican art. Together with Leopoldo Méndez , Pablo O'Higgins and Alfredo Zalce, he painted murals on the building of the national graphic design workshops. He was chairman of the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios (LEAR) and from 1936 engaged in the field of museography . In the LEAR exhibition hall in the Centro Histórico , he first organized the exhibition “ Francisco Goitia , el olvidado” ( “Francisco Goitia, the forgotten” ). In 1938 he assisted together with Juan de la Cabada , José Chávez Morado , Elena Garro , José Mancisidor , Octavio Paz , Carlos Pellicer and Silvestre Revueltas at the congress of anti-fascist writers in Valencia, Spain during the time of the civil war and at that time also organized in Valencia, Madrid and Barcelona an exhibition on the topic “Un Siglo de Grabado político mexicano” ( “A century of political, Mexican etching” ). When he returned to his homeland at the end of 1938, he was commissioned by Lázaro Cárdenas to organize and install the exhibition “España en llamas” ( “Spain in Flames” ) in the Palacio de Bellas Artes . Other national and international exhibition organizations and participations followed. In 1944 he initiated the modernization of the Museo Nacional de Antropología . At the Escuela Nacional de Antropología he designed the museography course and from 1945 headed the museums of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia as artistic director . He was involved in the founding of the Mexican Society for Modern Art and worked there as a coordinator. Carlos Chávez made him head of the visual arts department and director of the Museo Nacional de Artes Plásticas . In 1948 he went to the United States as a Guggenheim Fellow . In Mexico he founded several public art galleries. At the New York World's Fair in 1964/1965 he was acting head of the Mexican pavilion, also in 1967 at the Expo 67 in Montreal , in 1968 at the Hemisfair '68 in San Antonio and at the Expo 70 in Osaka .

Gamboa has published more than 20 books on Mexican art and was co-founder and director of the artist magazine " Frente a Frente" ( "Forehead to Forehead" ) and co-founder and art critic of the magazine "Tiempo"

Web links

• Literature by and about Fernando Gamboa (artist) in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
• Extensive Spanish-language biography with images

Individual evidence

1. ^ Participó Fernando Gamboa en la construcción de la cultura en México. (Spanish), Munod hispano de KSL, February 2008.