Dos Cuerpos is a company with a cultural commitment to agave spirits and Mexican wine. At the same time, we aim to provide our customers with a good time, which is why we offer tastings where you can enjoy a lovely afternoon with colleagues, friends, and family.
Today, we are thrilled to share with you a new space where we will hold our tastings: the Diego Rivera Studio Museum. This is the place where three Mexican artists who have become national heritage converged: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and Juan O'Gorman.
During these tastings, the experience is divided into two parts. First, you'll have the opportunity to be guided by an expert in the museum. You'll become knowledgeable about O'Gorman's functionalist architecture and the stories that make the house the main setting. Afterward, you'll find a table in the house's patio, where you'll sit down to enjoy a delightful tasting of wines or mezcals. This experience is truly enriching. After hearing so much about those artists who shaped our nation's artistic and cultural vision while savoring drinks produced from these very lands, a fascinating combination is formed. To help you better understand, I'll take the chance to share a bit more about O'Gorman's history since there's already so much known about Diego and Frida without sounding repetitive.
I once heard that Juan O'Gorman created poetry in stone and I confirmed it. His organic architecture, far too modern for his time, involved integrating the region's geography to create harmony between man and the land. This demonstrates a great respect for the place where you live while also being intelligently practical, avoiding ridiculous pretensions. This way, O'Gorman could update traditional elements to create communion between the house's inhabitants and the environment in which it was constructed. This approach supported and contributed to the country's tradition.
Dos Cuerpos and the three artists who lived in this house have some things in common. We truly believe that we share an idea about art, which must necessarily be popular and have a social or cultural function that could be shared through murals and architecture, ensuring that art isn't confined to a showcase for the so-called cultured people. In this regard, these artists sought to create a Mexican art emblematic of our geography and in contrast to colonial art. Moreover, O'Gorman's first murals focused on depicting drink as the core of social life, and so his initial works as a muralist were in three different pulquerias (agave spirits bars). Similarly, all three artists were passionate about the pre-Hispanic past and avid readers of codices, yet they never lost sight of the European, Asian, and American advances in art. For example, Juan O'Gorman found artistic inspiration in "La Relación de Michoacán," while also drawing inspiration from modern organic architecture like Frank Lloyd Wright's. They studied and understood the historical past, not to recreate it, but to continue with their tradition, develop it, and update it. This understanding of time and space has left a mark on our culture.
At the same time, Dos Cuerpos seeks to share, support, and educate about the realities surrounding artisanal mezcal and Mexican wine. We are against irresponsible consumption and seek social and economic justice for small agave distilleries and family-owned wineries. This is why we host these tastings and take pride in being able to conduct them in the patio of these three great Mexican artists. We won't claim to be anti-capitalists, as that would be a lie, but we are against the industry that renders our hardworking people invisible, mistreats them with low wages, and also damages the ecosystem, depleting water as in the Valle de Guadalupe and reducing the genetic variety of agave plants. We aim for conversations and human interaction that varies with each tasting, believing that we can enrich each other, creating a conscious, empathetic, and healthier culture. We seek to rebuild that organic world that O'Gorman recognized as the only way humanity could have a future.
Lastly, the last time we visited the museum, we encountered a vase that belonged to Diego. The vase has a text that I will transcribe later. We invite you to search for and find the vase that deeply moved us. It reads:
"Sweetest maguey, at your feet I commend myself, tell me if you'll knock me down so I won't continue drinking, but if you're good nourishment, I'll follow you with such delight that I'll want you to even put me to sleep."
Come and be part of Dos Cuerpos at the patio of Diego, Frida, and Juan.
See more:
Documentary about O'Gorman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lljmF3zNpH0
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