City and Cosmos: The Arts of Teotihuacan upcoming at LACMA

BY BLOUIN ARTINFO | APRIL 10, 2018

Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s upcoming exhibition “City and Cosmos: The Arts of Teotihuacan” — displays the recent findings from Mexican national and international archaeological project excavation at Teotihuacan’s three main pyramids. The discoveries in the pyramids (the Sun, Moon, and the Feathered Serpent) have apparently changed the fundamental understanding of the city’s history.

The story of the city of Teotihuacan is centuries deep — it flourished in central Mexico in the first millennium CE; it was a multi-ethnic, cosmopolitan city and the largest urban center in the Americas in its day.

“City and Cosmos” focuses on the main pyramids and the residential compounds in order to examine how the city worked and the mechanism behind its cohesive civic identity. Highlighting both monumental sculptures and buried offerings, the exhibition also underlines the way in which art relate to place, both above and below ground.

The discoveries show that both visible and buried works were arrayed in distinct designs, commemorating the city’s ancestral foundations relating to the vital essential forces such as fire and water.

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Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition

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