Celia Álvarez Muñoz American, b. 1937
Petrocuatl (Templo Mayor), 1992
Cibachrome Print
19 x 11 in
48.3 x 27.9 cm
48.3 x 27.9 cm
Edition of 5
Celia Álvarez Muñoz recreates a page from the December 1980 issue of National Geographic (Vol. 158, No. 6), just two years after the Templo Mayor was discovered during routine infrastructure...
Celia Álvarez Muñoz recreates a page from the December 1980 issue of National Geographic (Vol. 158, No. 6), just two years after the Templo Mayor was discovered during routine infrastructure upgrades. The image shows an aerial view of Mexico City, with a phantasmic Aztec pyramid appearing where it might stand today had it not been destroyed during the Spanish invasion and conquest. The Cibachrome material gives the print an unusually high brilliance.
Exhibitions
20 Years: Ruiz-Healy Art, Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, TX, 2026-7Celia Álvarez Muñoz: Breaking the Binding, organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA, 2023-4. Traveling to the University Art Museum, Las Cruces, NM, and Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK; curators: Dr. Kate Green and Isabel Casso (catalogue)
Raphael Montañez Ortiz: A Contextual Retrospective, 2022-23, Rufino Tamayo Museum, Mexico City; curators: Rodrigo Moura and Julieta González
Celia Álvarez Muñoz: Obras, 2020, Art League Houston, Houston, TX; curator: Sarah Beth Wilson (catalogue)
Revelaciones/Revelations: Hispanic Art of Evanescence, 1993, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; curators: Chon Noriega and José Piedra (catalogue)
