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This application to read QR codes, accompanies the exhibition Mexican masks, veiled symbolism, a sample whose narrative covers the topic of the mask in Mexico on a tour of four periods of our history. In this application, available for mobile phones, the visitor to the exhibition can make a record of 40 of the most important works, carrying on their mobile device additional information of them, for your enjoyment and post-visit consultation and photographs. Also, you can get the descriptive texts of the five themed rooms.
In the exhibition Mexican masks, veiled symbolism, the support of 40 museums and collections has made possible the presentation of 460 archaeological, historical, ethnographic, modern and contemporary pieces, divided into five themes: "The Mask, universal thought", "The mask, the face of the deity, "" The Mask, sacred, human essence "," The Mask, ritual and celebration "and" Art and mask ".
The curatorial script of the exhibition is based on the fact that the mask is an element of transformation whose ritual symbolism stems from the perception of the artist of the environment in which they live. The coincidence of the concepts represented in objects from different continents, can be seen in the introductory room "The Mask universal thought" including zoomorphic, anthropomorphic and fantastic mythical character masks embodying the duality of the cosmos and natural phenomena.
Prehispanic works that make up "The mask, the face of the deity" and "The Mask, sacred, human essence", incorporate masks showing the faces of the most revered deities in Mesoamerica in order to maintain the natural and social balance. Also sculptures and reliefs of ancient characters who carry the mask and clothing of the gods during rituals of personification are presented.
Meanwhile, masks and clothing dance developed during the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty included on "The mask, the ritual and the party" are heirs of the colonial tradition and contain concepts of pre-Hispanic, European and African born of cultural miscegenation from the Spanish conquest.
Finally, as an object of transformation mask remains valid and still present in the art of our time. Witness to this are space objects "Art and mask" in which it appears as an ethnographic exercise, as an element in the coexistence of the sublime and the ridiculous, as the revelation of the personality or image of a distorted reality.
Thus, Mexican masks, veiled symbolism, gives us the opportunity to appreciate fully the mask to interpret its syncretism from the details without losing the chance to experience the aesthetic fact in the moment of making contact with her, each time, renew and enrich the reading of its meaning.

Sofia Martinez del Campo Lanz