In honored collaboration with Ana Pellicer and her family, MASA presentsTienes que

olvidar para recordar, a solo exhibition spanning five decades of groundbreaking

exploration and practice, and the last presentation that the artist was involved in conceiving

and realizing.

Tienes que olvidar para recordar reflects a life of radical vision and uncompromising

artistry, from an artist recognized as a master of direct metal sculpting, as well as an

educator and community organizer. Ana Pellicer’s sculptures – ranging in scale from the

bodily to the monumental – bridge contemporary experimentation with ancestral memory. In

her hands, copper, bronze, and amate became a living language through which she sculpted

time – past and future – into objects of enduring form that unsettle distinctions between

abstraction and figuration, and decoration and function.

The exhibition traces the breadth of her inspiring career, in which Pellicer cultivated a rich

and multifaceted practice as a sculptor, goldsmith, and educator, standing at the forefront of

arts education in Mexico through her advocacy for the preservation of traditional

craftsmanship through education and support of women’s training in metalsmithing.

© the artists; Courtesy of the artists, MASA, Mexico

City. Photo: Gerardo Landa & Eduardo López (GLR estudio).