Photo and drawing workshop for youth with Yvonne Venegas
+ drawing session with Álvaro Verduzco
The renowned photographer Yvonne Venegas will teach a 4-session workshop that aim playing with the relationship between photography and drawing to explore the borders between portrait, advertising and their surroundings.
Seeking in drawing a way to observe the images that surround us, each session will be a combination of drawing exercises and photo practices with natural and artificial light. We will review portrait photography and iconic advertising campaigns, as well as walks and field explorations around Arte Abierto led by the artist, whose work explores the different uses, notions and accidents of portrait photography, from its social and intimate function, to the ambiguity that arises between its planned and unplanned gestures.
The objective of the workshop is to provide each participant with tools to experiment with how vast the portrait genre is and offer a broader thought about what the relationships are like between advertising and the images that surround us.
As part of this workshop, we will also have the participation of artist Álvaro Verduzco for a special drawing session.
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THE PORTRAIT AND ITS SURROUNDINGS
Photography and drawing workshop for youth with Yvonne Venegas
+ drawing session with Álvaro Verduzco
- FROM THE 27 THE 30.NOV.2023
- 16:00 – 18:30 hrs.
- For young people between 15 – 20 years old
- Pre-registration here | Enrollment limited to 20 participants
- Recovery fee $500 pesos
- Arte Abierto | Artz Pedregal
Workshop duration: 4 days
- SESSION 1 – MON.27.NOV ––– 4:00-6:30 pm
- SESSION 2 – TUE.28.NOV ––– 4:00-6:30 pm
- SESSION 3 – WED.29.NOV ––– 4:00-6:30 pm
- SESSION 4 – THU.30.NOV ––– 4:00-6:30 pm
*No prior experience is necessary. The idea is to work with your cell phone camera or whatever you have. If you have a professional camera, you can also bring it.
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YVONNE VENEGAS (Long Beach, California, 1970)
Photographer and artist, she grew up in Tijuana and currently lives and works in Mexico City. Her work explores the different uses, notions and accidents of photography, from its social and intimate function, to the ambiguity that arises between its planned and unplanned gestures. She has also explored the essential function of portraiture as a photographic genre and the relationships between who looks and who is looked at. She is a graduate of the International Center of Photography in New York and has a Master’s degree from the University of California San Diego. Her work has been exhibited in Mexico, the United States and Spain, among other countries. She has been recognized with the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Magnum Expression Photography Award (awarded by Magnum Photos), and has been a beneficiary of the FONCA National Creators System and the Jumex Scholarship. She has several books published such as Unique Days: The study and its archive (2019) edited by MUAC; Maria Elvia de Hank (2010), Inedito (2012), Gestus (2015), San Pedro Garza García (2019), and The Pencil of Nature (2023), published by RM Editorial, Barcelona.
IG @yvovenegas
yvonnevenegas2.weebly.com/
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ÁLVARO VERDUZCO (Mexico City, 1977)
Artist based in Mexico City. His work is supported by both the smallest piece of paper and large walls, with which she uses the most varied media: from a pencil, collage and video to installation, to name a few). He problematizes the idea of the “phenomenology of drawing” using the mechanisms of memory as his main object of study. He has a degree in Fine Arts from the National School of Fine Arts of the UNAM (1997-2001) and has a postgraduate degree in practical theory at Goldsmiths College of the University of London in the United Kingdom.
IG @alvaroverduzco
www.alvaroverduzco.com/
