Pierre et Gilles
La construcción del símbolo – Museo Franz Meyer – Mexico
The Museo Franz Mayer is dedicating its first-ever exhibition in Mexico to Pierre et Gilles, curated by Abraham Villavicencio.
Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico
From June 26, 2025 to February 22, 2026
| The Museo Franz Mayer (Mexico City) presents Pierre et Gilles: La Construcción del Símbolo, the first solo exhibition in Mexico by the iconic French artist duo. The exhibition brings together nearly one hundred works created over five decades, including three creations made specifically for the exhibition, merging photography and painting to create deep symbolic portraits.
Curated by Abraham Villavicencio García, Chief Curator of the Museo Franz Mayer, the works of Pierre et Gilles engage with iconic pieces from the museum’s collection, highlighting the enduring nature of symbols over time and providing a contemporary interpretation of the museum’s history. A 264-page catalogue was published to accompany the exhibition, including texts by Marc Donnadieu and Abraham Villavicencio García. |
L’anneau d’or (Violet Chachki)
The artist
Pierre was born in 1950 in La Roche-Sur-Yon, Gilles in Le Havre in 1953. They are internationally renowned artists who have been producing works together since 1976, creating a world where painting and photography meet. Their art is peopled by their friends and family, anonymous and famous, who appear in sophisticated life-size sets the artists build in their studio. They meticulously apply paint to the photographs once printed on canvas. Accomplished image creators, Pierre and Gilles have built up an extraordinary contemporary iconography on the frontier between art history and popular culture.
