Among the activities that have been carried out include the conversations in charge of the journalist Armando Ponce, in which the life of Diego Rivera, his secrets and his passions was addressed. The art historian Juan Coronel – Nieto del Artista -, the teacher Valentina García Burgos, director of the Casa Estudio, and Emma Hurtado, Rivera's last wife, who talked about the mural War nightmare, Peace Dreamlost since the 50s in some corner of China or the then Soviet Union.
In the same framework of the celebration a conference was held in which the architect was attended Dirk Deninson, director of the MIES Crown Hall Americas Prize (Mchap), who in 2023 He awarded the Anahuacalli expansion award to the Mauricio Rocha architecture workshop. Denison praised Rocha's intervention for his ability to honor Diego Rivera's original vision and, at the same time, offer a contemporary perspective. «Anahuacalli articulates ancestral culture, nature and the community in an exceptional way,» he said.
In addition, to continue generating a dialogue between modern work and pre -Hispanic art, the museum will count until January 2025 with the exhibition Atomic amnesia of the artist Pedro Reyes, the work of 20 new pieces that maintain correspondence with the pacifism of Diego Rivera. «This exhibition makes us reflect on the importance of peace, because Diego fought for these issues and if we review the international scenario, the 'No to War' remains a current cause,» adds the director.
Last July a postal bell commemorating the anniversary was canceled with the figure of the museum: “We were accompanied by the Mtra. Victoria Rodríguez Ceja, governor of the Bank of Mexico, Lic. Rocío Bárcena Molina, director of the Mexican Postal Service and Mtra. Jessica Serrano Bandala, director of Financial Education and Cultural Development of the Bank of Mexico. It was very emotional because we made history, ”says Teresa Moya about these activities around the celebration – of course, already had its respective cake game – to which we must add the traditional offering of the dead that will be inaugurated on October 29 and the Cocoa Festival from October 31 to November 2.
A little earlier – on October 17 – Mutek, the digital music and technology event, returns to the Anahuacalli Museum to continue leaving a mark from the avant -garde. A book called 60 anniversary and an emotional documentary made with people who met and worked with Diego Riverathey close the commemoration along with a free community party that will be held on December 8, remembering the Birthday of the muralist and creator of the Anahuacalli.
The Mauricio Rocha architecture workshop carried out the Anahuacalli Expansion and Remodeling Project. Work for which he also received the MIES Crown Hall Americas Prize.Courtesy of Anahuacalli Museum.
The future of the Anahuacalli Museum
As a child, Mauricio Rocha He used to visit the museum with his parents. Years later, in 2021, he would be in charge of preserving that sensitive dialogue of the present with the future of the enclosure, when competing and winning the project of expansion and remodeling of the Anahuacalli. Work for which he also received the aforementioned MIES CROWN Hall Americas Prize. The architecture with floating effect of the Mexican architect respected the original stony and the slogan of permanence, by integrating the environment into their work. He Mauricio Rocha architecture workshop He directed the future museum, reinterpreting the language of Rivera and O'Gorman and merging it with modernity. Thus, faithful to the legacy, three new spaces were created together by a square, in order to provide the place of new elements: a cafeteria, workshops, a library/multipurpose room, offices and a shelter for the pieces that are not exhibited. Everything, maintaining the concept, which continues to be that of a space where different artistic disciplines can coexist.
In this way, the Anahuacalli Museum in its 60 years of history, heads towards the future. “Currently, there is healing an itinerant exhibition that we hope to launch for 2025 in a country in Asia that will host it; In addition, we already have international invitations for the sample to continue. The idea is to get Diego Rivera out of Mexico, we want to take it everywhere. He was well known in Russia, very dear in Spain and in France, ”says Julio Saldierna on the next strategic activities that will be carried out. «We are proud of what we have created, where we come from and where we go,» he says.
Today, the museum is more present than ever on the cultural agenda and definitely, important things are happening around. «Much of our goal is to move emotions, remind visitors where we come from, the pride of being Mexicans and through pre -Hispanic culture, finding that sense of belonging that connects us,» says director Teresa Moya.
He Diego Rivera Anahuacalli Museum It is located in Museum 150, San Pablo Tepetlapa, in the San Pablo de Tepetlapa neighborhood of the Coyoacán Mayor's Office, very close to the Frida Kahlo Museum.