Alma Allen Solo Exhibition at Museo Anahuacalli

Alma Allen Nunca Solo
Museo Anahuacalli, Mexico City
February 9–June 25, 2023

Kasmin is delighted to announce Nunca Solo (“Never Alone”), a solo presentation by the sculptor Alma Allen, opening February 9, 2023 at Museo Anahuacalli. Rather than a retrospective of existing works, the Tepoztlan, Mexico-based artist has elected to create an entirely new series of large-scale bronze and stone sculptures for the museum and grounds. Nunca Solo, curated by Karla Niño de Rivera, embodies a conversation with this monumental testament to Diego Rivera’s vision: his design for Museo Anahuacalli’s pyramid-like architectural structure, the museum’s collection of pre-Columbian art objects, and the area’s volcanic landscape and quality of light. 

With a distinct visual language orchestrating immediate mark-making and meticulous carving and casting, the works of American-born sculptor Alma Allen (b. 1970) are inseparable from a sense of movement and the moment of their approbation, emitting a mysterious and ineffable lifeforce. Yet in their willing engagement with an expansive range of allegorical and organic references, the works link abstraction and Allen’s authorial gesture to the ambiguities of poetics, narrative and mythology, allowing a visceral charge to emerge from the timeless qualities of sculpture and material.