Guggenheim Examines Art And Life of the Aztecs

Guggenheim Examines Art And Life of the Aztecs
This fall the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum examines the extraordinary civilization of the Aztecs through more than 440 works drawn from public and private collections, including archaeological finds of the last decade never before seen outside Mexico. The Aztec Empire is the most comprehensive survey of the art and culture of the Aztecs ever assembled, and the first major exhibition devoted to the subject in the U.S. in more than 20 years.

The Aztec Empire is organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in collaboration with the Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (CONACULTA) and the Instituto Nacional de Antropolog�a e Historia (INAH). Guest curator is Felipe Sol�s Olgu�n, Director of the Museo Nacional de Antropolog�a in Mexico City, co-curator of the large-scale survey Aztecs at the Royal Academy in London in 2003, and one of the world's foremost authorities on Aztec art and culture. Exhibition design is by Enrique Norten of TEN Arquitectos + J. Meejin Yoon.

The Aztec Empire begins by painting a vivid and immediately recognizable portrait of daily life in a thriving metropolis and seat of power. In an early section sculptures in stone or fired clay and stucco depict the appearance of an urbane people in an ascendant society in a variety of poses, whether standing, seated, kneeling, crouching, holding a caca