Olivier Debroise
Olivier Debroise is an art critic, curator, novelist and film maker currently based in Mexico City. Debroise has curated Modernidad y modernización en el Arte mexicano, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City (1991); The Bleeding Heart/El Corazón Sangrante, ICA, Boston (1991); David Alvaro Siqueiros: Portrait of a Decade, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City; MFA, Houston; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA and the Whitechapel Gallery, London (1997). He was Co-Curator for InSITE97, San Diego-Tijuana. Other publications include Diego de Montparnasse (Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1979); Figuras en el trópico: Plástica mexicana, 1920-I940 (Barcelona-Mexico: Ediciones Oceano, 1982); Sobre la superficie bruñida de un espejo, (Mexico: Coleccion Río de Luz, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1989); Alfonso Michel, el desconocido (Mexico: Era-Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 1991); and Mexican Suite, Photography in Mexico, (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999). In 2000, Debroise directed A Banquet in Tetlapayac, a film on Eisenstein’s Qué viva Mexico.
Source Material:
Found Photographs including
• Ship Wreckage (signed John D) (1921)
• Costa Ricans in Acapulco (1931)
• Sergei M. Eisenstein in Mexico (1931)
• Polish Youths (1910-1952)
