ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF REALITY/ CIEN AÑOS DE REALIDAD

NADA QUE CELEBRAR

 The Mexican Revolution left many hot irons in the fire and died later killed along with  Emiliano Zapata and Francisco (Pancho) Villa. Today we can not revive this moments, recreate with pleasure, or living in the past. Now we just try to  analyze it to see just how far we are the ideals that led to the revolutionary movement which left more than 1 million dead and a very low expectation of changing the lives of Mexicans. It is impossible to think at the moment of the Centennial, in a conclusion or make a sumptuous feast, to remember the beginning of the first revolution in Latin America. On the contrary, is a time to assess what happened in these past years in our US-México laboratory and see what we have done the reality of the Mexican people. The future of Mexico is in the hands of all citizens who love this great and rich country, plundered by powerful transnational predatory oil, gold, silver, copper, zinc, biodiversity and other natural resources stolen from this nation for more than five centuries. With the support of politicians and wealthy in a society totally unequal and unfair distribution of wealth, which has such enormous resources to the detriment of the Mexican past, present and of course, committed his future and the fate of this Nation.

CasaSola Museums / Museos CasaSola is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to culture, art and education, which has no commitment whatsoever with any government, political party, religious association, or linked to corporate power. The images that we present are evidence of the reality, professionalism, optical art, spontaneity, and especially the search for freedom and truth

 Carlos  U. Vigueras

Exhibition Description: Collective Exhibition( with more than 500 photojournalists of four generations)  Selection of 120 photos with frames and slide show    with another 500 hundred images General archives: 100,000 images, cartoons, maps, documentaries and more. This exhibition is composed of 100,000 images of our iconographic collections of four types:

     1.- Images that are part of the CasaSola Museum’s private collection  2.- Images from the special collection of the Casasola Found

                             3.- Images from the archives of the Mexiamerica/Casa de las Americas special private collection 4.- Images from the collective collection of 50 border graphic journalists( photojournalists ) associated with the CasaSola Museums/Museos CasaSola.

Description:

In conjunction with the CasaSola Museums/ Museos CasaSola, CasaSola Educational Community Center, Fondo Casasola and Mexiamérica/Casa de las Américas is pleased to announce a collective exhibition of more than five hundred thirty-two photojournalists working in the México-U.S Border. The Collective Exhibition of these artists' include the works of four genetrations of photojournalists including : Javier Aguilar, Alfredo Carrillo,Adrian Caldera, Federico Casasola, Vanesa Casasola, Enrique Castillo, Rafael Cota, Doug Duvois, Ramiro Escobar, Yuri González , Raúl Lodoza, Juan Torres, Luis Torres, Jesus Manrique, Jaime Murrieta, Hector Oaxaca, Apolinar Ochoa, Miguel Perea, Roberto Ramirez, Margarita Reyes, Juan Robles, Ernesto Rodríguez, Manuel Sáenz, Alex Sánchez, Sergio Sánchez, Aurelio Suárez, Nat Stone , Lucio Soria, Ruben Valle, Lizbeth Vásquez and Carlos Vigueras Artists which are mostly from designed to better comprehend the historical reality of Mexico’s past, present and future.

Excellent images by photojournalists, led by Víctor Agustín Casasola, who were the first auxiliary historians that participated in the Mexican Revolution of 1910, as well as the members of three later generations, will be united in this project of the Casasola Museum and exhibited directly to the international community.

This exhibit covers a century of Mexico’s graphic history, and is organized by Federico Casasola and Carlos U.  Vigueras. The travelling exhibit will be displayed during the next two years in universities, community centers, parks and public gardens, train depots, galleries, museums, public and private schools, various institutions, and national as well as international organizations.

The Center for Mexican American Studies of the University of Houston, the Casasola Fund, Bilingual, La Nueva Raza, Mexiamérica/ Casa de las Américas, Houston Community College, Educational Community Center, as well as other support organizations, are coming together and joining hands in order to back this travelling independent project titled Mexico 2010: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. These organizations will analyze, evaluate, review and/or present cultural, artistic and academic works about the history of Mexico and its role in the world.

We hereby invite all cultural, academic, research and artistic organizations, as well as non-profit, alternative and community agencies, to participate in the events that will emerge from their own proposals, exhibitions and presentations, according to the list of invitations that will be received during the next few months.

The exhbit will also include conferences, forums, and several types of exhibitions, including book exhibits, disc exhibits, as well as exhibits of posters, cartoons, documents, videos and much, much more.