Would you like to visit an unconventional museum of an unconventional artist? Then come and discover the Xul Solar Museum, where time and space interact and where symbolism, the esoteric and the game invite you to go through the past, the present and the future as if they were the same instant. Does it sound like quantum physics and wormholes? Exactly. Get your tickets to discover an advanced Argentine artist, a friend of Borges, in his own home.
The Xul Solar Museum in Buenos Aires: an esoteric journey where time dissolves
There are museums that order the past in a linear fashion; others, like the Xul Solar Museum, invite you to lose yourself in a different reality where time does not happen chronologically and our way of living the present, the past and the future merge. At the Xul Solar Museum, each work contains a symbolism to be discovered: an impossible staircase, a reinvented tarot, a piano with a hexagonal scale submerge you in a cosmos where past, present and future coexist.
Maybe you didn’t know it, but the Xul Solar Museum is built in Xul’s own house, so his spirit and soul are in every corner and even its architecture translates that conception of time, where it seems that we could be in more than one place at the same time. Life and art can be lived without thinking chronologically and in order, and this is how your tour through the works of Xul Solar is structured.
The museum presents his work by stages of his life and vision so that you can situate yourself, but at the same time you could go through this museum in Buenos Aires in multiple ways and still understand perfectly who Xul Solar was, what he thought and what he wanted with each of his works. You will discover his fascination for astrology, the esoteric world, invented languages and symbolic geometries that no one could reflect better than him.
Walk through its corridors and stairways and let yourself be trapped by the symbols trapped in his works and try to decipher what is hidden in his Pan-Chess, his Pan-Tree, even in his modified I-Ching cards. In the Xul Solar Museum, certainties dissolve and possible universes overlap.
None of this is by chance: Xul was an astrologer, a linguist and even the creator of languages such as the pan-language or neo-Creole: a universal, numerical and symbolic language. One of his most incredible works is his piano: an instrument where each key produces sounds associated with symbols, colors and astrological relationships.
Among the activities that you can do at the Xul Solar Museum you will find:
When to visit the Museum: Hours and location
The Xul Solar Museum is open from Tuesday to Friday, from 12hs to 20hs, and on Saturdays from 12hs to 19hs. Visiting the Xul Solar Museum is an opportunity not to be missed to connect with the legacy of an artist who fused art, mysticism and spirituality in each of his creations.
