Restoration of Rivera's mural in Chapingo completes
Restoration of Rivera's mural in Chapingo completes
▲ Song to the Land and to Those Who Work and Liberate It (Song to the Liberated Land) , a work by Diego Rivera at the Autonomous University of Chapingo, was affected by structural movements caused by earthquakes and eventual settlements of the building where it is located. Photo courtesy of Inbal
From the editorial staff
La Jornada Newspaper, Wednesday, July 9, 2025, p. 5
From November 13, 2024 to June 27, restoration work was carried out on Diego Rivera's mural work Song to the Land and to Those Who Work It and Liberate It (Song to the Liberated Land) , located in the Riveriana Chapel of the Autonomous University of Chapingo.
The completion of the intervention, carried out by technical staff from the Mural Painting Workshop of the National Center for the Conservation and Registration of Movable Artistic Heritage (Cencropam), which consisted of stabilizing the layers of fresco painting that were affected by structural movements caused by earthquakes and eventual settlements of the building, was announced yesterday by the federal Ministry of Culture and the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature (Inbal).
The work on Rivera's project consisted of a general mechanical cleaning, as well as chemical cleaning in specific areas and color restoration. Meanwhile, at the property where he resides, located at kilometer 38.5 of the Mexico-Texcoco Highway in Chapingo, State of Mexico, cracks in the air chambers were consolidated and stabilized through injection and repaired with binder materials.
This intervention was carried out thanks to a collaboration agreement between the Autonomous University of Chapingo and the National Institute of Biological Sciences (INBAL), through Cencropam (Cencropam), to restore the collection of Diego Rivera murals in the university's Riveriana Chapel.
The mural covers 370.23 square meters and was created between 1925 and 1927 as part of a series of frescoes in which the artist depicted the Mexican agrarian struggle and allegories that exalt the regenerative power of nature, the fertility of the soil, and the dignity of peasants.
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