Kasmin is delighted to announce that Alma Allen's solo exhibition Nunca Solo at Museo Anahuacalli has been extended through June 25, 2023.
The Tepoztlán, Mexico-based artist elected to create an entirely new series of large-scale bronze and stone sculptures for the museum and grounds. The exhibition, 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.
In conjunction with the extension announcement, Museo Anahuacalli and Kasmin Books are pleased to present Alma Allen: Nunca Solo, a catalogue accompanying the artist’s exhibition within the museum. With translations in both English and Spanish, this volume delves into Allen’s ongoing engagement with time, form, and hybridity through twenty-six newly commissioned sculptures installed among the volcanic architecture and grounds of the museum.
