Alma Allen Solo Exhibition at Museo Anahuacalli

Museo Anahuacalli
May 21, 2023
  • Alma Allen Nunca Solo Museo Anahuacalli, Mexico City February 9–June 25, 2023 Kasmin is delighted to announce Nunca Solo (“Never...

    Alma Allen Nunca Solo
    Museo Anahuacalli, Mexico City
    February 9–June 25, 2023

    Kasmin is delighted to announce Nunca Solo (“Never Alone”), a solo presentation by the sculptor Alma Allen, opening February 9, 2023 at Museo Anahuacalli. Rather than a retrospective of existing works, the Tepoztlan, Mexico-based artist has elected to create an entirely new series of large-scale bronze and stone sculptures for the museum and grounds. Nunca Solo, curated by Karla Niño de Rivera, embodies a conversation with this monumental testament to Diego Rivera’s vision: his design for Museo Anahuacalli’s pyramid-like architectural structure, the museum’s collection of pre-Columbian art objects, and the area’s volcanic landscape and quality of light. 

    With a distinct visual language orchestrating immediate mark-making and meticulous carving and casting, the works of American-born sculptor Alma Allen (b. 1970) are inseparable from a sense of movement and the moment of their approbation, emitting a mysterious and ineffable lifeforce. Yet in their willing engagement with an expansive range of allegorical and organic references, the works link abstraction and Allen’s authorial gesture to the ambiguities of poetics, narrative and mythology, allowing a visceral charge to emerge from the timeless qualities of sculpture and material. 

  • Nunca Solo engages both the museum grounds and interiors, including the iconic stone building, designed by Rivera and O’Gorman; the ecological preserve surrounding the museum, the only one of its kind in Mexico; and the new museum expansion completed in 2021 by Mexican architects Mauricio Rocha and Gabriella Cariilo. The exhibition is supported by a stipulation in Rivera’s will that Museo Anahuacalli present contemporary work alongside the collection of 59,400 Mesoamerican art and objects that Rivera bequeathed to Mexico.

    The exhibition has been extended through June 25, 2023.

    For press inquiries, please contact press@kasmingallery.com

  • About the Artist

    Alma Allen
    Portrait by Diego Flores. 

    Alma Allen

    Alma Allen participated in the 2014 Whitney Biennial where he gained recognition and a wider discovery of his work. Recent group exhibitions include the de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA and Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT. In Conversation: Alma Allen & J.B. Blunk, a two-person exhibition that began at the Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA (February 2018), traveled to the Nevada Museum of Art in Spring 2019.
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