Grupo Mira. Una contrahistoria de los setenta en México

It is no simple task to talk about the grupos generation, a key reference in understanding the history of con- temporary art in Mexico. The exhibition Grupo Mira. A Counterhistory of the 1970s in Mexico tells the story of a group of artists linked to numerous projects between 1965 and 1982, making art in relation to their historic moment and aimed at all audiences-workers as well as the spe- cialized art public.
Having taken part in the student movement of 1968 in Mexico and in San Francisco's Latino art scene in the early 1970s, their purpose was to reassert the cause of politi- cal art while jettisoning prior stereotypes in the context of the struggles of their time.
With more than 500 documents and works from the private collections of artists Arnulfo Aquino and Jorge Pérez Vega, the UNAM'S Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), the Centro de Documentación Arkheia/MUAC and several archives and universities in Mexico and the United States, this chronologically orga- nized exhibition helps us understand Grupo Mira's body of work and thus create a non-hegemonic history of the 1970s in Mexico from an outsiders' point of view.
We wish to acknowledge the members of Grupo Mira for their invaluable collaboration with this project, as well as Annabela Tournon, for her curatorial work, whose results are reflected in this publication. We also thank the many collectors and institutions involved for generously lending their works and everyone else who made this project possible at the Museo Amparo.

Grupo Mira. A Counter-History of the Seventies in Mexico tells the story of a group of artists who were active between 1965 and 1982. The main members were Arnulfo Aquino, Melecio Galván, Eduardo Garduño, Rebeca Hidalgo, Silvia Paz Paredes and Jorge Pérez Vega.