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TRANSVERSAL TOURS

DISARRANGE THE CHAIN

Transversal tour through Modthern Nature with Valeria Mata

On this visit we will explore how our idea of nature has been a cultural construction, full of imaginaries and hierarchies. We will seek to disorder the “mother-nature” relationship and trace the privileged place we have occupied in the food chain (Who feeds whom? Who studies whom?). Practicing listening, attention and observation as tools, we will open conversations with other worlds beyond the human and together we will offer a poem to the plants that accompany us

The Transversal Tours are visits through the Arte Abierto exhibitions with guests from different areas beyond art, to expand the themes and points of reference from other gazes, perspectives, languages and disciplines.

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TRANSVERSAL TOURS
DISARRAGE THE CHAIN
Transversal tour through Modthern Nature with Valeria Mata

  • THUR.12.OCT.2023
  • 18:00 hrs.
  • Free admission
  • Arte Abierto | 2nd floor, Artz Pedregal

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VALERIA MATA
She is a social anthropologist. She writes and researches about the intersections between artistic practices and anthropology, the political and cultural dimension of food, and the social imaginaries of travel. She has shared workshops and organized study and exploration groups around these topics. She edited the book Comer relaciona (y confronta) mundos (2021), and has published plagie, copie, manipule, robe, reescriba este libro (2018) and Todo lo que se mueve (2020).

valeriamata.com/
@vaaleriamata

PARALLEL LANDSCAPES

VISITS AROUND EL PREDREGAL

CASA ESTUDIO MAX CETTO

With Julián Arroyo Cetto

El Pedregal, a huge territory of harsh nature, splendid, but for thousands of years evaded, uninhabited and even devalued, was the scene of the flourishing of incredible gardens and notable projects of modern Mexican architecture. There, a migrant couple and their family became one of the first settlers of Jardines del Pedregal at the end of the 1940s. In this fourth visit of Parallel Landscapes, we invite you to visit the Max Cetto’s Home – Studio, the first house in Jardines del Pedregal de San Ángel, designed by the German architect Max Cetto, in which he projects a synthesis of modernity, tradition, daring, experience and experimentation with the natural environment.

In the last two decades, the house housed various inhabitants and even institutions seeking to adapt to its time. Currently, it is inhabited by its original family, who also seek its preservation, keeping alive the ideals and precepts of Max Cetto. In this tour led by Julián Arroyo Cetto, architect, grandson of Max Cetto and current inhabitant of the house, you will be able to learn not only the architectural aspects of this project, but also the daily and domestic life that has occurred and created in that house. house in the more than 70 years of its history.

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PARALLEL LANDSCAPES
Visits around El Pedregal
VISIT FOUR: CASA ESTUDIO MAX CETTO
With Julián Arroyo Cetto

  • SAT.07.OCT.2023
  • 12:00 hrs.
  • Casa Estudio Max Cetto
  • Pre-register here.
  • Duration: 60-90 min. each visit.
  • We recommend wearing comfortable shoes, water and a hat.

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Responsible Registration Policy: Your place is very special since space is limited, so we ask you to fill out the registration only if you can attend.
To cancel write to actividades@arteabierto.org

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Enter here to learn more about Arte Abierto’s Parallel Landscapes Program, with upcoming visit dates and places.

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JULIÁN ARROYO CETTO (Cancún, 1981)
Architect graduated from the Faculty of Architecture, UNAM and professor at Universidad Iberoamericana. He has worked on various public and private projects, committed to the balanced integration of technical, artistic, economic and social aspects. He collaborated in the first projects of the Autoridad del Espacio Público (AEP): “Plaza de la República” and “Madero Pedestrian Corridor.” He was Architectural Coordinator in the La Quebradora Water Park projects and renovation of the Parque Urbano Monumento a la Madre and Jardín del Arte. He collaborated with Nuño, Mac Gregor and de Buen in the design of the Bars and Restaurants Building of the León Fair. He has designed projects for SEDATU, among which the “Jardín de Sombras” and the “Jardín de Agua” (Collaboration with ORU), Centro Cultural Mirador, Plaza Principal and Centro Cultural Pisté, Plaza Sisbichén y Deportivo and Plaza Chelem stand out. Currently, he works in his own office and collaborates in the development of projects with both public and private institutions.

casaestudiomaxcetto.com
IG @casaestudiomaxcetto
IG @dcmxarq

ART & ARCHITECTURE DERIVES

The garden as an extension of nature

A conversation with Tonatiuh Martínez | Taller de Paisaje Entorno

Within any architectural, housing or urban approach, an environment is always present: a mixture of material, natural, climatic or symbolic aspects that are linked to each other. Landscape architecture projects make buildings and nature coexist and find a real and functional connection. There are gardens that produce aromas, disorganized or minimalist gardens, gardens with microfauna or gardens where architecture is not present, but how to generate atmospheres and sensations of nature with a landscape linked to an architectural project or without it? What aspects are taken into account to ensure that an open space or a garden has the necessary elements so that it relates and links as much as possible with the daily reality of its environment and its nature?

In this Derive we will explore the processes carried out by the Taller de Paisaje Entorno, a landscape architecture office located in Mexico City and formed by an interdisciplinary team of architects, landscapers and artisans, who are dedicated to design, development, execution and advice on landscape projects at an architectural, urban and regional scale. From the hand of its founder, Tonatiuh Martínez, we will learn how it was possible to develop landscape projects in places with particular characteristics and needs, taking into account the site program, orientation, views, complementary information such as background of the place, photos and documents that They feed back the criteria to resolve a proposal. Taller de Paisaje Entorno has been behind some projects such as the conservation of the scree of the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), the Vasconcelos Library open garden, the restoration project of the stone and native landscape of the Anahuacalli Museum that they carried out in collaboration with Mauricio Rocha , the rescue of the scree at Casa Pedregal by Luis Barragán, or the installation Modthern Nature by Gabriela Galván in Arte Abierto.

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The garden as an extesion of nature.
A conversation with Tonatiuh Martínez | Taller de Paisaje Entorno

  • Saturday, September 30, 2023
  • 13:00h
  • At Arte Abierto, located on the 2nd floor of Artz Pedregal
  • Free admission

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No registration needed.

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Tonatiuh Martínez(Monterrey, Nuevo León, 1962)
Self-taught since the 80s in the field of landscape, biology and botany. Founder of Taller de Paisaje Entorno, whose objective is to generate projects, consultancies, workshops and exhibitions in the field of landscape architecture both nationally and internationally for architecture offices, public and private institutions, as well as individuals. Martínez is the founder of the only landscape workshop in Mexico, an alternative place to the office located in Xochimilco, with the purpose of disseminating, promoting and physically showing the design of different spaces, showing the diversity of plant species that are used in the projects, as well as all the materials involved in their execution with an artisanal character and binding to the work of the landscape.

IG @tallerdepaisajentorno
IG @tonatiuhh.martinez

Arte Abierto continues with its new public program Derivas de Arte y Arquitectura (Art & Architecture Derives), which seeks to renew our gaze on the architectural legacy of Mexico City. From a series of talks focused on rescuing the parallel stories of emblematic architectural projects and public spaces that have witnessed the variable intersection between art and architecture. In this first stage, the program deals mainly with modern architecture, based on a series of talks given by invited curators, architects, artists and urban planners.

With this program, ways of returning to architecture part of its public, experiential, collective character and close to those of us who inhabit the city are tested, recognizing in it its condition as a living archive. From these talks, circumstances, contexts and anecdotes are revealed that have been part of his sensitive memory and that complement his material memory, a relationship that often escapes documentary narratives and academic accounts.

The objective of the drifts is to generate experiences of spatial rediscovery, which allow us to renew our gaze on the legacy of certain emblematic architectural and artistic works, as well as those that have been forgotten.

The derives will be carried out free of charge on the last Saturday of each month, at 1:00 p.m. with a limited capacity.

Arte Abierto Derives :

February 26: Tania Ragasol / Entorno urbano, cotidianidad y arte: La Torre de los Vientos by Gonzalo Fonseca

March 26 : David Miranda / Del Animal Herido y otros eventos escultóricos dentro de la arquitectura moderna

April 23: Gustavo Lipkau y Xavier Hierro / Integración plástica de los edificios del campus central de CU: sus murales

May 28: Marisol Argüelles / La casa-estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo. Del espacio doméstico a la dimensión de lo público

June 25: Luis Javier de la Torre/ La Ruta de la Amistad MÉXICO68… más allá de 1968

July 30: Aldo Solano/ Architecture for playing in 20th Century Mexico City.

August 27: Christian del Castillo/ Tracing the modern in the architecture of the Historic Center of Mexico City.

September 24: Juan José Kochen/ The Ideal of the Multifamily Apartment cComplex.

October 29: Tania Candiani/ Quantum Prelude. Sound activation by Tania Candiani.

March 25: Ana Garduño/ Cultural Geographies: The invention of museum circuits in 20th century Mexico City.

May 27: Rebeca Barquera/ The Plastic Integration Movement México: More than murals on buildings.

June 17: Julián Arroyo Cetto/ Max Cetto in the beginning of El Pedregal.

July 29: Peter Kriegel/ The eco-aesthetics of El Pedregal and constructive botany in the megacity of Mexico.

August 26: Arturo Rivera García y Roberto Bustamante Castrejón/ Jardines del Pedregal Legacy: Memory and Identity.

26 de agosto: Arturo Rivera y Roberto Bustamante/ Jardines del Pedregal Legacy: Memory and Identity.

PARALLEL LANDSCAPES

VISITS AROUND EL PREDREGAL

THE ROUTE OF FRIENDSHIP

With Proyecto Esculturas Experimentales and Luis Javier de la Torre

The Route of Friendship, pdesigned by Mathias Goertiz with the support of Architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, is the largest sculpture corridor in the world. In its 17 km. long, there are 19 stations (sculptures) built in concrete that were made by artists from the five continents. In this way, modern art took to the streets as a path of geometries and colors. At some point, it was completely abandoned for 25 years during which it faced damage from rapid urban growth. Since 1994, the Board of Trustees of The Route of Friendship Ltd. has dedicated itself to saving the Route, with the fundamental idea being a thorough restoration that considers not only the sculptures themselves, but also their surroundings.

This guided tour by Proyecto Escrituras Experimentales aims to explore two key sculptures from The Route of Friendship in Pedregal: SCULPTURE 13. Articulated Wall by Herbert Bayer, Austria, and SCULPTURE 7. Man of Peace, by Constantino Nivola , Italy. We will investigate the layers of time gathered at the site, from the potential of the surrounding ecosystem to the current recovery of the spaces with which the door to the return of nature is opened. Taking body perception as a starting point, we will enter the sites to test the possibilities of experimental writing and create a collective text that will be integrated into the public space. During the visit, we will be accompanied by Luis Javier de la Torre, president of the The Route of Friendship Ltd.

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PARALLEL LANDSCAPES
Visits around El Pedregal
VISIT THREE: THE ROUTE OF FRIENDSHIP
Proyecto Escrituras Experimentales
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Luis Javier de la Torre

  • SAT.23.SEP.2023
  • 12:00 hrs.
  • The Route of Friendship
  • Pre-register here.
  • Duration: 60-90 min. each visit.
  • We recommend wearing comfortable shoes, water and a hat.

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Responsible Registration Policy: Your place is very special since space is limited, so we ask you to fill out the registration only if you can attend.
To cancel write to actividades@arteabierto.org

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Enter here to learn more about Arte Abierto’s Parallel Landscapes Program, with upcoming visit dates and places.

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PROYECTO ESCRITURAS EXPERIMENTALES (PEEX)
An independent collective of artistic and pedagogical curation, formed in 2020, in Mexico City, by curators, writers, educators and artists Cristina Torres and Christian Fajardo. Their practice takes as its starting points the intersections between contemporary art, critical mediation and experimental writing, to investigate, exhibit and promote the proposals and imagination of artists, educators and writers, women, non-binary people and the LGBT+ community who expand their fields of action from experimentation. In October 2022, they inaugurated a project space to present a curatorial program of exhibitions, workshops and talks in the historic Romita neighborhood of Mexico City, taking as its headquarters the space that for decades housed a printing press’s workshop.

www.escriturasexperimentales.com
IG @escrituras.experimentales

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LUIS JAVIER DE LA TORRE
He is currently President of the Board of Trustees for The Route of Friendship Ltd. He has dedicated himself to the field of management and communication, carrying out public relations projects in the advertising field and fund management in the cultural field. In 1992 he began his research around the The Route of Friendship Project, and in 1994 he created, together with Architect Javier Ramírez Campuzano, the The Route of Friendship Ltd., an institution dedicated to rescuing, conserving and disseminating the cultural legacy derived from the Olympic Games in Mexico. At the same time, he creates and directs the De-construction project, and carries out urban ecological recovery initiatives, such as the restoration of the Pedregales.

www.mexico68.org
IG @rutamex68

STONES, GARDENS AND CHARMS

Workshop with Miguel Cinta Robles

What do stones do in a garden? Perhaps they are part of a bench, a connecting path, or a dividing wall. What do the stones do in a forest? They can be fragments of a cave, a refuge for critters looking for a moment of privacy or a filter for the water that crosses a river. What do the stones do in the city? They are the fragment of a monument, a projectile in a protest or something that gets stuck in a shoe. Observing stones can help us think about other time scales, in dimensions that go beyond us as individuals. At first glance, a stone may seem like a static object, but its formation and movement have shaped the landscapes we inhabit.

Stones, Gardens and Charms is a reflective workshop to exercise contemplation, a space to question and rethink the garden as a containment and classification mechanism of what we understand by “nature”. We will reflect on the methods we use to observe and how they are reflected in the way we perceive our spaces and gardens. We will carry out some exploration exercises to understand the stones again and build other forms of “classification”, imagining that the stones can also be spells to attract water, be linked to lunar cycles, stories, esotericisms, to learn to observe, all we think, doesn’t seem to move.

This workshop with Miguel Cinta Robles is part of Arte Abierto’s Public Program around our current exhibition Modthern Nature by Gabriela Galván.

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STONES, GARDENS AND CHARMS
Workshop with Miguel Cinta Robles

  • SAT.SEP.02.2023
  • 13:00 hrs.
  • Workshop for everyone (Adults, teens and kids accompained by an adult)
  • Duration: 2hrs (13:00 – 15:00)
  • Pre-register here
  • Quota limited to 20 people
  • Arte Abierto | 2nd Floor, Artz Pedregal

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MIGUEL CINTA ROBLES
He lives between Oaxaca and Mexico City. He studied at the National University of Arts in Buenos Aires and studied visual arts at ENPEG “La Esmeralda” in Mexico City. His interests focus on building models that merge agriculture and sculpture with pedagogical strategies that enable forms of socialization and learning in connection with the land. He is the founder of “Domingo de cerro” a project dedicated to producing routes, walks, workshops and activations in the mountains of Oaxaca and other states of the republic. Currently, he collaborates in the syntropic reforestation and eco-construction project “Terreno familiar” where he dedicates himself to planting, giving workshops, building earth ovens and investigating, together with his family, models to achieve food sovereignty and live in interdependence within the ecosystems and the community of Tlalixtac de Cabrera.

https://miguelcinta.tumblr.com/
IG @miguelcintarobles

ART & ARCHITECTURE DERIVES

Jardines del Pedregal Legacy: Memory and Identity

A conversation with Arturo Rivera García and Roberto Bustamante Castrejón

In a Mexico City that does not stop growing, the Jardines del Pedregal Legacy emerges as a cultural diffusion project about the architecture, landscape and history of El Pedregal to raise awareness about the cultural and artistic value of its buildings and the neighborhood. It is also a search to share with its inhabitants the cultural importance of the houses they inhabit, together with their volcanic rock gardens.

In this Derive we will be able to learn more about this project which has reactivated local identity and memory, from a photographic exhibition and document reprography, and the creation of a digital archive that, in addition to collecting historical information from professional archives and of original families of the community, contemplates the documentation and registration of plans and current photographs of the buildings and gardens that continue to exist with a significant degree of conservation. At the same time, this archive is also carrying out records of contemporary buildings that reinterpret the modern architecture with which the subdivision was built and characterized.

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Jardines del Pedregal Legacy: Memory and Identity.
Arturo Rivera García y Roberto Bustamante Castrejón.

  • Saturday, August 26, 2023
  • 13:00h
  • At Arte Abierto, located on the 2nd floor of Artz Pedregal
  • Free admission

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No registration needed.

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Arturo Rivera García
He is an architect graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the UNAM. He has also taken several photography courses and diplomas at the Active School of Photography and at IMMAGINI. He works as a teacher at the SEP and teaches the subject of Visual Arts. He is currently doing a master’s degree in architecture in the area of knowledge of Restoration and Rehabilitation of architectural heritage at UNAM, and directs the cultural project Legado Jardines del Pedregal. Since 2017, he has dedicated himself to research and has been involved in projects related to the Pedregal de San Ángel. He has also collaborated with FUNDARQMX and the Bitácora Arquitectura Magazine of the Faculty of Architecture of the UNAM, to discuss and disseminate the architectural heritage of Jardines del Pedregal.

IG @JardinesDelPedregalExpo
IG @ArturoRivera.arq

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Roberto Bustamante Castrejón
He has a degree in Information Sciences and Techniques from the Universidad Iberoamericana, and is dedicated to real estate development. He is president of the Jardines del Pedregal A.C. Citizen Observatory. and member of the Community Participation Commission 2023. For several years he has been involved in current regularization projects in the Jardines del Pedregal urbanization, in addition to promoting the conservation of the architectural legacy of Pedregal. He has lived in the Pedregal since 1958 and is a member of the second generation of the creators of Jardines del Pedregal, linked to the architect Luis Barragán.

IG @robertombustamante

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Arte Abierto continues with its new public program Derivas de Arte y Arquitectura (Art & Architecture Derives), which seeks to renew our gaze on the architectural legacy of Mexico City. From a series of talks focused on rescuing the parallel stories of emblematic architectural projects and public spaces that have witnessed the variable intersection between art and architecture. In this first stage, the program deals mainly with modern architecture, based on a series of talks given by invited curators, architects, artists and urban planners.

With this program, ways of returning to architecture part of its public, experiential, collective character and close to those of us who inhabit the city are tested, recognizing in it its condition as a living archive. From these talks, circumstances, contexts and anecdotes are revealed that have been part of his sensitive memory and that complement his material memory, a relationship that often escapes documentary narratives and academic accounts.

The objective of the drifts is to generate experiences of spatial rediscovery, which allow us to renew our gaze on the legacy of certain emblematic architectural and artistic works, as well as those that have been forgotten.

The derives will be carried out free of charge on the last Saturday of each month, at 1:00 p.m. with a limited capacity.

Arte Abierto Derives :

February 26: Tania Ragasol / Entorno urbano, cotidianidad y arte: La Torre de los Vientos by Gonzalo Fonseca

March 26 : David Miranda / Del Animal Herido y otros eventos escultóricos dentro de la arquitectura moderna

April 23: Gustavo Lipkau y Xavier Hierro / Integración plástica de los edificios del campus central de CU: sus murales

May 28: Marisol Argüelles / La casa-estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo. Del espacio doméstico a la dimensión de lo público

June 25: Luis Javier de la Torre/ La Ruta de la Amistad MÉXICO68… más allá de 1968

July 30: Aldo Solano/ Architecture for playing in 20th Century Mexico City.

August 27: Christian del Castillo/ Tracing the modern in the architecture of the Historic Center of Mexico City.

September 24: Juan José Kochen/ The Ideal of the Multifamily Apartment cComplex.

October 29: Tania Candiani/ Quantum Prelude. Sound activation by Tania Candiani.

March 25: Ana Garduño/ Cultural Geographies: The invention of museum circuits in 20th century Mexico City.

May 27: Rebeca Barquera/ The Plastic Integration Movement México: More than murals on buildings.

June 17: Julián Arroyo Cetto/ Max Cetto in the beginning of El Pedregal.

July 29: Peter Kriegel/ The eco-aesthetics of El Pedregal and constructive botany in the megacity of Mexico.

August 26: Arturo Rivera García y Roberto Bustamante Castrejón/ Jardines del Pedregal Legacy: Memory and Identity.

PARALLEL LANDSCAPES

VISITS AROUND EL PREDREGAL

PEDREGAL DE SAN ÁNGEL ECOLOGICAL RESERVE (REPSA)

With Dr Silke Cram and Bárbara Foulkes

Visit two of Paisajes Paralelos is in the Pedregal de San Ángel Ecological Reserve, UNAM (REPSA), located south of Mexico City, within Ciudad Universitaria. Due to its location and its biodiversity, it is considered an exceptional natural and biocultural heritage, not only within the Mexican context but in the world. The reserve protects the volcanic landscape of El Pedregal, in which the endemic ecosystem of the area develops freely and where the unique relationship between flora and fauna and the rocky terrain left behind by the eruption of the Xitle volcano is visible. This tour, led by Dr. Silke Cram, is an opportunity to learn about the ways of life, particularities and challenges of this biodiverse microcosm within one of the largest cities in the world.

After the visit, artist and choreographer Bárbara Foulkes will invite us to take a tour activating all the senses of our body to observe nature from a kinetic and perceptual perspective, redefining our relationship with the landscape, the territory and its stories. We will walk backwards, we will look with our hands, we will taste the sound and we will cross the lands of lava, breathing the wet scree like our tongues.

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PARALLEL LANDSCAPES
Visits around El Pedregal
VISIT TWO: PEDREGAL DE SAN ÁNGEL ECOLOGICAL RESERVE
Dr. Silke Cram
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Bárbara Foulkes

  • SAT.19.AUG.2023
  • 10:00 hrs.
  • Pedregal de San Ángel Ecological Reserve
  • Pre-register here.
  • Duration: 60-90 min. each visit.
  • We recommend wearing comfortable shoes, water and a hat.

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Responsible Registration Policy: Your place is very special since space is limited, so we ask you to fill out the registration only if you can attend.
To cancel write to actividades@arteabierto.org

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Enter here to learn more about Arte Abierto’s Parallel Landscapes Program, with upcoming visit dates and places.

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DR SILKE CRAM
She is a biologist and researcher at the UNAM Institute of Geography. She has a degree in Biology, a Master of Science from the UNAM Faculty of Sciences and a PhD in Agronomy from the Hohenheim Agricultural University, Stuttgart, Germany. She is currently Executive Secretary of REPSA and Titular “B” researcher. Her research topics are soil conservation and degradation, pollution from mining and oil activities, and she has recently focused her interest on the importance of soils in cities. She has carried out research projects on conservation and sustainable management of biodiversity, and she is part of a working group that discusses comprehensive risk assessment models. She has participated in several multidisciplinary projects such as: “Geopark Mixteca Alta”, “Evaluation of ecosystem services of urban soils”. She teaches graduate level courses on Soil Degradation and Contamination and undergraduate courses in Earth Sciences and Biology: Soil Restoration, Geoscree Restoration, and Environmental Diagnosis and Risk Assessment.

www.repsa.unam.mx/
IG @repsa_cu

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BÁRBARA FOULKES (City of Buenos Aires, 1982)
She is an artist, choreographer and cultural manager. Her work is linked to interdisciplinary, developing exhibition works and art education. Within her practice, the body is the starting point of an expanded investigation. She understands choreography as the relationships established between bodies and ideas and approaches drawing and writing as an extension of the ephemeral, a way of documenting action and turning it into sensitive study material. Her most outstanding pieces are Arrecife co-authored with Colectivo AM, commissioned by MUAC; Fleet, Insist Insist Insist co-authored with Abraham Cruzvillegas; Nine point Eight co-authored with Nuria Armenta, among others. She published Cómo estar 10 horas de pie, with Gato Negro Ediciones 2020. She was a beneficiary artist from EMPAC, Experimental Media and Performing Arts, NY, Tanztage Berlin and Landeshauptstadt Munich Kulturreferat, Germany; Tamayo Museum, among others. Her work has been presented at SAPS, La Tallera, MUAC, Museo Experimental el Eco, The Kitchen Performance Center NY, Redcat, Pacific Standart Time, LA, Teatro Pradillo, Madrid, among other venues. She was selected as a 2019 Performing Artist by La Tempestad magazine. She lives and works in Mexico since 2008.

IG @barbarafoulkes_

TRANSVERSAL TOURS

SERVE NATURE OR USE NATURE?

Transversal tour through Modthern Nature with Antonio González Guzmán

How is it that human beings have adapted and transformed nature like no other species? How did we go from collecting carrion, fruits and seeds in savannahs, forests and jungles, to producing millions of tons of grains and inputs to feed billions? How is it possible to grow plants in the most unexpected places… like in this art space? The answers connect various aspects of our biology with knowledge and work. In this tour of Modthern Nature, we will reflect on our relationship with nature, considering how humanity has gotten to where it is.

The Transversal Tours are visits through the Arte Abierto exhibitions with guests from different areas beyond art, to expand the themes and points of reference from other gazes, perspectives, languages and disciplines.

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TRANSVERSAL TOURS
SERVE NATURE OR USE NATURE?
Transversal tour through Modthern Nature with Antonio González Guzmán

  • THUR.17.AUG.2023
  • 18:00 hrs.
  • Free admission
  • Arte Abierto | 2nd floor, Artz Pedregal

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ANTONIO GONZÁLEZ GUZMÁN
Hydroponic plant grower and inventor. He graduated in Physics from the UNAM Faculty of Sciences, where he taught physics and mathematics for more than 40 years. His deep interest in science and plants led him to a total immersion in hydroponics, which is currently his main activity. He was also the founder of the Hydroponics Workshop at FC UNAM, where he produces, teaches and learns about hydroponics since 2002. He has taught more than 50 courses and workshops in various states of the country and abroad. He was part of the specialists who collaborated in the production of the hydroponic culture for the Modthern Nature exhibition by Gabriela Galván.

VISITS FOR KIDS

TO PLANT A HOUSE BETWEEN THE ROCKS

Modthern Nature visits for kids

These visits are an invitation for girls and boys to become explorers within the Modthern Nature exhibition by Gabriela Galván. While they walk through this interior garden created by the artist, we will be able to reimagine the relationship of nature with its environment through drawing exercises that combine observation with invention. Talking, listening, smelling and browsing, we will unite ideas in a blog to understand plants as living beings and rocks as their home and its city.

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VISITS FOR KIDS
TO PLANT A HOUSE BETWEEN THE ROCKS
Visits for kids through Modthern Nature

  • ALL SATURDAYS of July and August
  • TWO SCHEDULES: 13:00 – 17:00 hrs.
  • Free admission | Limited availability
  • Aimed at: Girls and boys between 4 and 12 years old together with their adult companions
  • Visit duration: 45 min.
  • Arte Abierto | 2nd floor, Artz Pedregal
  • >> The group will form at the Espacio Arte Abierto Box Office, between 5-10 minutes before.

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NOTE
This is a family tour, so girls and boys may not be left alone during the tour at any time and must be accompanied by their mothers, fathers or an adult companion at all times. Some activities and exercises will require your support to be carried out.

ART & ARCHITECTURE DERIVES

The eco-aesthetics of  El Pedregal and the constructive botany in Mexico megacity

A conversation with Peter Krieger

With the participation of Juan José Kochen

This talk explores the urban-natural and artistic-architectural relationship of the Pedregal de San Ángel Ecological Reserve (REPSA), a unique reserve in the world that is located within Ciudad Universitaria and that protects an extraordinary fund of biodiversity stressed by the current unsustainable development of the mega city of Mexico.

Thanks to the fact that it is a place where the city, wild vegetation and volcanic rock remnant of the eruption of the Xitle volcano coexist, it has functioned as a didactic enclave that has been a source and inspiration for works of contemporary art such as STRATUM by Luis Carrera-Maul (MUCA Campus, 2022) or Modthern Nature by Gabriela Galván (Arte Abierto, 2023). It has also been the setting for imagining a new type of architecture that leaves only a minimal ecological footprint: constructive botany, a model created by the German architect Hannes Schwertfeger, who introduced it to Mexico in 2022 in a workshop given at UNAM.

This Derive reflects on how architecture, art and nature find points of confluence to think about our environmental responsibility as current inhabitants of the basin of Mexico and the world.

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The eco-aesthetics of El Pedregal and constructive botany in the megacity of Mexico..
A conversación con Peter Krieger.

  • Saturday, July 29, 2023
  • 13:00h
  • At Arte Abierto, located on the 2nd floor of Artz Pedregal
  • Free admission

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No registration needed.

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Peter Krieger
He is a PhD in Art History from the University of Hamburg, Germany, a researcher at the Institute for Aesthetic Research and a professor at UNAM’s Postgraduate Studies in Architecture and Art History. He has conducted research and publications on aesthetics, history, theory, ecology, and political iconography of architecture, cities, and landscapes. He is currently working on a book about the Pedregal de San Ángel Ecological Reserve. From 2004 to 2012 he was vice president of the International Committee for the History of Art (CIHA / UNESCO) and from 2010 to 2018 member of the Outdoor Advertising Commission, Ministry of Development and Housing, Government of Mexico City. During 2016 and 2017 he was visiting professor at the universities of Hamburg / chair Aby Warburg, Tübingen and Regensburg.

www.peterkrieger-ecoaesthetics.com/

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Juan José Kochen
Architect and publisher. He studied Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Journalism at the Carlos Septién García School of Journalism and a master’s degree in Analysis, Theory and History of Architecture at UNAM. He wrote for the newspaper Reforma, was editor of Arquine, consultant to the General Subdirectorate of Sustainability and Technology of Infonavit, fellow of the National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt), of the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and of the Youth Program Creators of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) on two occasions. He is the author of La utopía como modelo, a professor at the Universidad Iberoamericana and collaborator of the Sordo Madaleno Foundation.

TW @kochenjj

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Arte Abierto continues with its new public program Derivas de Arte y Arquitectura (Art & Architecture Derives), which seeks to renew our gaze on the architectural legacy of Mexico City. From a series of talks focused on rescuing the parallel stories of emblematic architectural projects and public spaces that have witnessed the variable intersection between art and architecture. In this first stage, the program deals mainly with modern architecture, based on a series of talks given by invited curators, architects, artists and urban planners.

With this program, ways of returning to architecture part of its public, experiential, collective character and close to those of us who inhabit the city are tested, recognizing in it its condition as a living archive. From these talks, circumstances, contexts and anecdotes are revealed that have been part of his sensitive memory and that complement his material memory, a relationship that often escapes documentary narratives and academic accounts.

The objective of the drifts is to generate experiences of spatial rediscovery, which allow us to renew our gaze on the legacy of certain emblematic architectural and artistic works, as well as those that have been forgotten.

The derives will be carried out free of charge on the last Saturday of each month, at 1:00 p.m. with a limited capacity.

Arte Abierto Derives :

February 26: Tania Ragasol / Entorno urbano, cotidianidad y arte: La Torre de los Vientos by Gonzalo Fonseca

March 26 : David Miranda / Del Animal Herido y otros eventos escultóricos dentro de la arquitectura moderna

April 23: Gustavo Lipkau y Xavier Hierro / Integración plástica de los edificios del campus central de CU: sus murales

May 28: Marisol Argüelles / La casa-estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo. Del espacio doméstico a la dimensión de lo público

June 25: Luis Javier de la Torre/ La Ruta de la Amistad MÉXICO68… más allá de 1968

July 30: Aldo Solano/ Architecture for playing in 20th Century Mexico City.

August 27: Christian del Castillo/ Tracing the modern in the architecture of the Historic Center of Mexico City.

September 24: Juan José Kochen/ The Ideal of the Multifamily Apartment cComplex.

October 29: Tania Candiani/ Quantum Prelude. Sound activation by Tania Candiani.

March 25: Ana Garduño/ Cultural Geographies: The invention of museum circuits in 20th century Mexico City.

May 27: Rebeca Barquera/ The Plastic Integration Movement México: More than murals on buildings.

June 17: Peter Kriegel/ The eco-aesthetics of El Pedregal and constructive botany in the megacity of Mexico.