AD recuerda y conmemora la vida de David Alfaro Siqueiros, el muralista mexicano que hizo de la lucha social su más grande inspiración. Descubre de la mano del arquitecto restaurador, Rogelio García-Mora Pinto y el coordinador de cultura Polyforum Siqueiros, Alejandro Piña Manríquez la pasión del artista que pintó el mural más grande del mundo.
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00:00 Did you know that the largest mural in the world is in Mexico
00:03 and is home to an architectural structure made with this sole purpose?
00:08 The pinnacle of the plastic work of Siqueiros is undoubtedly the Poliforum Siqueiros,
00:15 a complex of murals designed to look like a movie.
00:19 ADE Insider, a journey to the heart of pieces and outstanding projects of architecture, art and design,
00:28 in which we explain the relevance of these jewels.
00:31 Wait a minute, but who is Siqueiros?
00:37 For me, Siqueiros is a leader, is strength, passion and a genius.
00:42 He is a man who left his time and is, let's say, really a great mind,
00:47 out of the ordinary in the history of Mexican art, perhaps in the history of universal art.
00:52 And how did Siqueiros manage to make the largest mural in the world?
00:56 The history of the Poliforum begins with his patrons.
00:59 Don Manuel Suárez y Suárez was one of the most relevant entrepreneurs in Mexico
01:04 during the post-revolutionary period.
01:06 Manuel met Siqueiros when he was lucky enough to enter art classes in San Carlos.
01:11 Little by little, Don Manuel would become the main patron of Mexican muralism.
01:17 When he finds out that Siqueiros is in jail, he is outraged and makes a plan to get him out.
01:24 When Siqueiros is locked up for social dissolution,
01:28 in other words, for rebellion, he gets trapped and he suffered a lot
01:33 because he was locked up in a very small place and he made small paintings.
01:36 Then he imagined a great canvas where he could make a whole speech, a great mural.
01:43 Then he dreamed of making the largest mural in the world.
01:47 And it is when Don Manuel Suárez realizes that Siqueiros in jail was a Mexican genius,
01:53 he talks to Díaz Ordaz, who was a tough president, and convinces him.
01:58 He says, "Look, Mr. President, we have a great genius, a great Mexican artist, and we have him locked up."
02:03 He sees the opportunity to get him out, take him away,
02:08 and offer him a space where he could make the largest mural in the world.
02:18 The Poliforum has a diamond shape.
02:21 On the outside, there are 12 mural paintings,
02:24 the number 12 for Siqueiros represents the cosmos.
02:27 On the inside, the march of humanity,
02:31 which looks like an elliptical or circular mural,
02:34 is actually an octagon, and the number 8 for Siqueiros represents the universe.
02:38 So, cosmos on the outside, universe on the inside,
02:41 come together to form the structure of the Poliforum,
02:44 which is a structure in the shape of a diamond and a symbol of the attraction of positive forces.
02:49 The diamond of Mexican culture, that's how both Manuel Suárez and Siqueiros named it.
02:54 What is the artistic contribution that Siqueiros makes with the Poliforum?
03:00 It is a sculptural painting, it has volume, and it is not made to look like a painting.
03:06 The polyangularity is a system of perspective that Siqueiros proposes.
03:10 It is a painting that is a collection of fugue objects in one space.
03:14 It turns the viewer into an active viewer.
03:17 It is, at the time, a daring architectural space of travel.
03:21 The fourth stage of the Mexican muralist movement, which is the plastic integration.
03:26 And why did Siqueiros say that his mural was like a movie?
03:31 Siqueiros says that he interviewed or had a conversation with Einstein, the filmmaker,
03:37 and he said that the reality of cinema is what now conjugates all the arts,
03:41 and it is the great artistic expression, and no longer painting.
03:44 So Siqueiros kept that in mind and said,
03:47 "No, I'm going to generate a moving movie with mural painting."
03:52 Welcome to DEH.
03:54 We are going to know the show "Light, Sound, Creation" by the master David Alfaro Siqueiros,
03:59 and narrated by his own words, which at the moment is not available to the general public.
04:05 Go ahead, go ahead on this endless path, which is the great adventure of our life.
04:15 The march of humanity is a total march,
04:20 driven by the tremendous yearning for the overcoming that man has.
04:26 There is our man,
04:30 the man of ours,
04:33 miserable but walking,
04:36 walking towards a precise future,
04:40 towards a transformation of his material life
04:45 that will give him the basis for his spiritual transformation.
04:50 And man and woman also unite and form a new race,
04:57 a different, rich race,
05:00 which receives all the virtues of the indigenous race and all the virtues of the Spanish race,
05:06 its heroism, its will to fight, its great imagination.
05:11 So continue on that march, go ahead.
05:16 It is necessary to take up arms to become independent.
05:20 And there goes our new troop,
05:23 with arms raised high, saying,
05:27 "We will fight the one who fights us, but we are fighting for peace."
05:32 We have conquered many things, but we still have a lot to conquer.
05:37 We have transformed our man, but we still have a lot to transform.
05:43 A new, hesitant march is coming.
05:48 We have been defeated and we have been defeated.
05:51 There is indecision, fatigue.
05:55 It seems to them that they were looking for something beyond the possibilities of their world.
06:03 But they re-energize again,
06:06 they return again to be enthusiastic.
06:10 [Music]
06:32 [BLANK_AUDIO]