Diego Rivera, Gráfico/Hipergráfico, 2007
Museo Nacional de Arte

As part of the National Homage of Diego Rivera's 50th death anniversary, we presented a multimedia installation reflecting on the topics of the mural Man at the Crossroads, one of Rivera’s masterpieces questioning the direction of humankind at a crossroad in 1934, when it was created.  First painted at the Rockefeller building In New York and destroyed because of the appearance of Lenin and a Soviet Russian May day parade, Rivera painted it again at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico.

The original title of this work was Man at the Crossroads Looking with Hope and High Vision to the Choosing of a New and Better Future. With that in mind, we chose to create a multimedia project reflecting on Rivera’s topics 70 years after.

A team of young people researched and reflected on each of the topics in the mural to analyze if Diego Rivera’s vision and expectations became true or not.  It turned out to be a review of the vision of the 30’s and what the hope of a “New and Better Future” became after all.

The installation consisted of a projection of the mural where small video windows opened interactively to show a summary of the events that happened during the past 70 years on each topic.

This project earned reviews within the National Homage as the only exhibition that reflected on Rivera’s concerns in a contemporary way.