The exhibition of Mexican muralists, now known as la exposición pendiente (the pending exhibition), was scheduled to open on September 13, 1973 in Santiago, Chile. It was canceled, however, due to the coup of General Augusto Pinochet, that brought him to power and started his 17-year dictatorship. So the works by three great Mexican muralists José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros were taken on board an Aeroméxico aircraft, together with Allende’s widow and children, and the collection returned to the Mexican museums it had come from. Since then this exhibition became known as “la exposición pendiente”.

The exhibition México “La Mostra Sospesa” – Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros arrives in Bologna to feature sixty-eight works among the most important paintings of great Mexican muralism, recognized as national Mexican heritage and belonging to the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, the Museo Nacional de Arte, and the Museo de Veracruz.

For more information: emiliaromagnaturismo.com/en/events/bologna/bologna/mexico-la-mostra-sospesa