ACTIVITIES
Colegio de San Ildefonso and Ernst Saemisch A.C. offer a wide range of supplementary activities, including talks, a German expressionist film series, workshops and guided tours. Each of these activities is designed with pedagogical, educational and recreational goals.
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TALKS
You are invited to a series of talks on the life and work of the German painter. In the first talk, Eduardo Vázquez Martín, director of Colegio de San Ildefonso, and Gertrudis Zenzes, Ernst Saemisch’s widow and president of the association named after him, will discuss the artist’s life, they will share personal experiences, historical moments the painter lived through, reflections on his work, his influences and art in Germany and Mexico.
Later, in February, a second talk will feature two experts on Saemisch’s work, Fernando Gálvez and Carlos Blas Galindo. They will explore the aesthetics and creative processes of Ernst Saemisch, analyzing abstraction and musicality in his paintings.
On March 15, María Minera will talk about artistic avant-gardes and their connection to Saemisch’s work. In April, a series of guided tours will be led by Eugenio Caballero, the exhibition’s curator, who will share his personal experience with Saemisch’s painting and the process of creating the exhibition.
In May, the talk series will conclude with Erik Velásquez García, an expert on Mayan culture, who will discuss the influence of pre-Hispanic art on Saemisch’s work.
FILM
In Germany, films were an important medium for experimentation and the promotion of arts and ideas. The artistic avant-garde found in films a space to develop prevailing ideas in society, defined by subjective drama and a distorted reality.
In order to expand the context surrounding the life and work of Ernst Saemisch, Colegio de San Ildefonso and Ernst Saemisch A.C. invite exhibition visitors to the screening of 14 films from German Expressionism, produced between 1919 and 1931.
WORKSHOPS
LUDIC ACTIVITIES
• Drawing in San Ildefonso
• Museum Night
• Permanent guide tours program
