Image: Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City
Mexico City’s Museo Nacional de Arte has published a social-media tribute to the Mexican artist Gerardo Murillo, known as ‘Dr. Atl’. The post commemorates Murillo without announcing an exhibition, acquisition, discovery or other new museum programme.
Published on 15 August 2026, the message opens with a statement attributed to Murillo: ‘El arte debe ser como el volcán: una explosión de luz y fuerza’—‘Art should be like the volcano: an explosion of light and force.’ The museum’s post pairs the quotation with volcano and mountain imagery.
Museo Nacional de Arte describes Murillo in the message as a ‘genio rebelde’, or ‘rebel genius’, and presents him as an artist who travelled through the mountains to paint what it calls ‘the geological soul of Mexico’. Those descriptions are part of the museum’s commemorative wording and are not accompanied by further biographical or exhibition information in the post.
The tribute was shared through the Museo Nacional de Arte’s official online presence. The institution, also known as MUNAL, is based in Mexico City. Its post focuses exclusively on Murillo and his relationship to Mexico’s volcanic and mountainous landscape.
No dates, venue details, related events or artworks are identified beyond the artist’s name, the quotation and the museum’s brief characterization of his practice. The message therefore serves as an artist-focused commemoration rather than an announcement of a specific exhibition or public programme.
