No. 02 / 20 · Movements, by Gastón Solís
El Cuerpo Solitario
the umber figure on black
Museo de Arte Moderno, Bosque de Chapultepec · México D.F. · 1978

No temas lo que pesa.
No te resistas a lo que desciende.
No guardes adentro lo que está hecho para salir de ti
porque lo que sale de ti
salió antes de tu abuelo
y antes del abuelo de tu abuelo
y antes de que existieran los abuelos
salía de los animales que fuimos
y de los animales que seguimos siendo.
Do not fear what is heavy.
Do not resist what descends.
Do not hold inside what is made to come out of you
because what comes out of you
came out of your grandfather before
and before your grandfather's grandfather
and before there were grandfathers
it came out of the animals we were
and the animals we still are.
Provenance
The artist’s studio, Colonia Anzures, Mexico City, 1968; gift to the artist’s brother, the actor Jorge Martínez de Hoyos, 1968; Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City, 1972; the poet Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, Mexico City, acquired from the above, 1972; lent by the above to the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, for El Cuerpo Solitario, 1978; Bernard Lewin Gallery, Los Angeles, 1982; private collection, Cuernavaca, 1983; sale, Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City, 17 March 1984, lot 22; the present collection, acquired at the above sale.



















