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The Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes is pleased to present Panorámica. Paisajes 2013-1969 (Panorama. Landscapes 2013-1969) from April 25th to July 7th. Curated by Sylvia Navarrete and Itzel Vargas Plata, the exhibition emerged from the intention to review one of the most long-lived genres of art history. Its purpose is based on certain archetypes associated with landscape and that are produced by this genre since the landing on the moon to the present year.

The origin of 'paisaje' comes from the French word pays that means country and responds to a geographic-economic notion. 'Landscape' derives from the Dutch 'landschap': region or earth portion; while 'panorama' alludes to an extensive view. As the French artist Jean-Marc Bustamante said referring to its 'Tableau' series, '[...] panorama is something in between landscape and the aperture of sight.'

These meanings converge on a curatorial selection where the international and multidisciplinary artworks meet merely in its landscape reference. Technological progress, media breakthrough, changes in the relationship of men towards nature, economics trends, production systems and human psychology treaded together into the consequences in which landscape materializes.

The genre has been fundamental for art not only to contextualize but moreover to emphasize the sense of an idea. Like it is impossible to imagine Théodore Gericault's The Raft of the Medusa without a roughened sea, in an artistic discourse it is evident the concern towards the environmental crisis and the resignation of precise symbolisms ahead of an urban or rural scenarios in order to express a mindset.

As means to an end or as an expressive and formal resource, landscape has been fundamental for art history. Through Panorámica. Paisajes 2013-1969, the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes seeks to ponder over its concept and its endless symbolic, metaphoric, allegoric, documentary, social and aesthetic reaches within the last four decades.