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ART & ARCHITECTURE DERIVES

Cinemas in Mexico in the 20th century: distant spaces in memory.

A conversation with Alejandro Ochoa Vega and Francisco Haroldo Alfaro Salazar

Movie theaters represent typical 20th century architecture; a century that marked its appearance and also its decline. In modern Mexico they were a response to the technological and scientific developments of a time. With them, a milestone of the new spectacle and a new place to share not only the space, but the feelings and aspirations of modern cities was created. In the beginning, they appeared in spaces such as the adapted hall or the marquee and during their boom, between the 40s and 60s, they were built in all types of formats, from movie palaces to multiplex complexes.

Each new cinema was a new carrier of alternatives and architectural solutions. Their approaches increasingly required multidisciplinary work between engineers, urban planners, technicians, plastic artists—such as Carlos Mérida or Manuel Felguérez—and decorators, who captured colors, textures and styles in the space with all types of furniture and proposals. Cinemas such as Paris, Bella Época, Ópera, El Roble, Latino, Diana, Teresa, Ermita, among many others, whether classical or functionalist in style, played a determining role in the recreation of the modern city and provided an artistic legacy, cultural and architectural to the present day.

Nowadays movie theaters fight for their permanence; their space change as our way of making and watching cinema has also changed.

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Cinemas in Mexico in the 20th century: distant spaces in memory.
A conversation with Alejandro Ochoa Vega and Francisco Haroldo Alfaro Salazar

  • Saturday, March 23, 2024
  • 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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Alejandro Ochoa Vega
He is an architect from the University of Guadalajara, a master’s degree in Architecture and a doctorate in Art History from UNAM. He is a professor of history and criticism of architecture at the universidades Autónoma de Sinaloa, Intercontinental and Autónoma Metropolitana (Campus Xochimilco).

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Francisco Haroldo Alfaro Salazar
He is an architect from the UAM Xochimilco in Mexico. He completed master’s studies in Architectural Restoration at the ENCRyM, and specialization at the International Center for Studies for the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Assets (ICCROM) in Rome, Italy. He has collaborated in different postgraduate programs, research and conservation and restoration projects of immovable cultural heritage. He is a professor-researcher in the division of Sciences and Arts for Design (CyAD) of the UAM Xochimilco, where he has also been coordinator of the bachelors degree in Architecture, coordinator of Postgraduate Support, Academic Secretary and currently Director.

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.

September 30: Tonatiuh Martínez/ The garden as an extension of nature.

October 21: Lorena Botello/ Clara Porset’s Design: Between Tradition and Modernity.

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Este 2023 iniciamos N4V1D4D, un nuevo programa de Arte Abierto, en el que cada diciembre comisionamos la creación de una obra a un artista para decodificar y jugar con el folklore de la Navidad, las celebraciones del solsticio de invierno y sus códigos.

N4V1D4D busca provocar múltiples reinterpretaciones lúdicas, formales o conceptuales sobre las tradiciones, ironías, anacronismos e imaginarios de la época navideña y sus simbolismos. En esta primera edición, presentamos Árbol destumescente (Caída), de Alejandro Ponce.

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Árbol destumescente (Caída), 2023

Alejandro Ponce

Uno de los orígenes de la tradición del árbol de Navidad como lo conocemos se le atribuye a la celebración pagana de las fiestas de Yule, llevadas a cabo por los antiguos pueblos germánicos para festejar la entrada del solsticio de invierno y al dios Odín. Como en muchas otras culturas antiguas, se le atribuía a la verticalidad de este árbol —originalmente de roble y no de pino— una fuerza eréctil, mágica y vital.

Así como un monolito vertical representa a nivel simbólico y ritualístico la vitalidad y lo trascendental, de forma contraria, un monolito horizontal o en reposo representa una tumba o la decadencia.

A partir de un juego entre lo vertical y lo horizontal, y todos los conceptos que estas dos posiciones engloban, Árbol destumescente (Caída) es un pequeño momento antes de una tragedia, la caída de un árbol navideño hacia la horizontalidad desde un edificio.

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01.DIC.2023 – 07.ENE.2024
Entrada libre
Jardín Arte Abierto | Piso 2 Artz Pedregal

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ALEJANDRO PONCE (Ciudad de México, 1987)
Artista interdisciplinario que trabaja desde medios como la escultura, el arte sonoro, la instalación, el performance, el dibujo y la pintura. Entre sus campos de interés se encuentran el análisis de la memoria profunda, la hipnosis como herramienta de producción artística, el lenguaje del inconsciente, la psicoterapia y el enigma.

IG @milk__of__amnesia__

SENSORY ROUTE

Recorrido por las obras de la Colección Fundación Arte Abierto

Sensory Route is a journey so that people of any age, from children to adults, can approach contemporary art from everyday life and the body, through exercises of observation, interaction and attentive exploration. The intention is to learn about some of the formulas of contemporary art from the works of the Arte Abierto Foundation Collection that are located in the outdoor spaces of ARTZ Pedregal.

Using a sensory map as a guide and the senses of our body, we will explore and reflect on the creation mechanisms of some of the artists that are part of our collection.

Join the tour every Saturday in December at 4:00 pm.

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Artworks from the Arte Abierto Foundation Collection at ARTZ Pedregal:

  • Daniel Buren, The Fountain of Live Colors for Mexico, 2017.
  • Ai Weiwei, Forever, 2013.
  • Tania Candiani, Kiosko sonoro, 2018.
  • Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Corazonadas remotas, 2019.
  • Erick Meyenberg, Things We Do for Love, 2022.
  • Jose Dávila, Joint Effort, 2019.

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  • SAT.DEC.02 | 4:00 pm
  • SAT.DEC.09 | 4:00 pm
  • SAT.DEC.16 | 4:00 pm
  • SAT.DEC.23 | 4:00 pm
  • SAT.DEC.30 | 4:00 pm

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  • Free admission | For all ages (kids and families welcomed).
  • Meeting point: In front of the Joint Effort sculpture by Jose Dávila (PB, ARTZ Pedregal, between the Louis Vuitton and Hermès stores).

UN LIBRO ES…

UN LIBRO ES… AN ENCOUNTER.

With a selection of independent publishers and projects who have explored and played with book formats + Activities for children.

Our gathering and editorial sale, Un libro es… (A book is…) by Arte Abierto, reaches its third edition with a selection of publishers, bookstores and projects focused on the art of the book, with whom we will meet in our garden to talk, celebrate and spread the power of written and visual stories.

In addition, we will have a special selection of books and literature for girls and boys, as well as workshops with Estudio Nómade and a storyteller by the Navegui Bookstore for the young readers.

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SAT.DEC.09.2023
14:00 – 19:30 h
Free admission
Arte Abierto Garden | 2º floor – Artz Pedregal

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PARTICIPATING PUBLISHERS AND PROJECTS

Arte Abierto

Fundación Arte Abierto own seal and editorial line which seeks to reflect on contemporary art practices, based on publications that arise from its own exhibition projects. Through editorial exercises that try to expand the writing of art and put it in dialogue with other disciplines, as well as to think of the book as a space of creation and knowledge, their books delve into the artistic and conceptual proposals of the exhibitions commissioned and are presented specifically for Arte Abierto’s space.

@arte_abierto

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Assouline

Founded in Paris in 1994 by Prosper and Martine Assouline, Assouline is the first luxury brand on culture. It began with the desire to create a new, contemporary style of book, using the couple’s experienced eye for visually rich stories and compelling narratives.

@assouline

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Buen Trabajo

Design and fashion.

@buen.trabajo

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Cafeleería

Read and laugh at Cafeleería.

Cafeleería is a cultural center, bookstore and cafeteria in the Mayor’s Office of Coyoacán, dedicated to the sale, dissemination and activation of unique, original and different books, printed matter and editorial projects from those of large bookstores.

@cafeleeria

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Estudio Nómade

This project emerges during the pandemic as a catalyst for children in confinement. Estudio Nómade proposes to stimulate imagination, creativity and exchange of ideas, through play, speculation and art. They combine visual arts, cinema, theater, literature, illustration and editorial design in order to achieve a novel and playful space, where participants can discover other ways of creating and put it into everyday practice.

@estudio___nomade

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Librería Navegui

Children’s bookstore, illustrated books, stories, album books, graphic pieces for boys and girls, puppets and much more. More than selling books, they share readings.

@librerianavegui

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Ediciones Hungría

Ediciones Hungría is a small independent publisher that has been publishing since 2011 in Mexico City. His projects are a creative and original exploration that plays with book formats and traditional reading.

edicioneshungria.com/

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Miau Ediciones

Independent editorial project focused on feminist publications. Working mainly with female and non-binary and dissident artists, writers, illustrators, editors and creatives. It includes several genres such as theory, politics and social situation, graphics, photography, artist books, among others. “We like to use publications as instruments of dialogue and reflection while collectivizing our editorial practice.”

@miauediciones

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GLACIAR. Libros helados

Yogurt ice cream and independent publications in the San Rafael neighborhood.

@libroshelados

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Fulgencio Pimentel

An independent publisher, originally from Spain and focused on the high-quality edition of fiction, graphic novels, poetry, art books and illustrated books, for all ages. Their policy is to be faithful to artistic principles.

fulgenciopimentel.com/

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MONOMÁNTICO

Notebook publishing house created by Juan José Martín, visual artist and editorial designer, and Hipatia Palacios, artist jeweler and graphic designer. Its products are designed from sustainability, ecology, art and love for Mexico City, as well as the culture of our country. They have two lines: the first is “Unique Notebooks”, made from pages of books, atlases and encyclopedias that we rescue and reuse to make our covers, in this way each notebook is unique; the second is “CDdfMX, notebooks for lovers of Mexico City” made in silkscreen, in runs of 250 copies with detailed attention to the materials used.

@monomantico_design

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MUAC

It is the editorial line of UNAM’s University Museum of Contemporary Art, which publishes the memory and record of the investigations developed for each exhibition project presented by the museum, as well as its critical and historiographical area. Their Folios collection are catalogs with key material and original texts on artists, artistic movements or artistic periods.

muac.unam.mx/

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Piedra Ediciones

Piedra Ediciones is a series of publications that arise from conversation and processes that conceive the book as a space for experimentation for artistic projects, considering the book as an ideal space for collaboration and exchange. Each title becomes a multiple and simultaneous piece that makes new readings possible.

Piedra Ediciones is a project by Alfonso Santiago.

@piedraediciones

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Join us and spend time together between books.

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ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN

EDITORIAL WORKSHOPS FOR CHILDREN

With Estudio Nómade

1. Inventing invisibility.

Have you ever wanted to be invisible? In this workshop, participants explore the effect of invisibility. They will observe what happens in their drawings with the help of glasses, selecting what they want to be visible or invisible.

15:00 – 16:00 h

Children from 5 to 11 years old | Free admission until space is filled

2. Is there anyone there?

Participants create a narrative with the help of magazine clippings, drawings, colors and special ink, in such a way that they become a stimulus to create and imagine a story where some of the characters are ghosts.

17:00 – 18:00 h

Children from 5 to 11 years old | Free admission until space is filled

 

STORYTELLING FOR CHILDREN

With Jacinto and Chala from Librería Navegui

SESSION 1 | 14:00 – 15:00 h

SESSION 2 | 16:00 – 17:00 h

For children of all ages | Free admission

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Un libro es… the perfect way to close 2023.

THE PORTRAIT AND ITS SURROUNDINGS

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/

COLLECTIVE COOKING SESSION

With Proyecto Garambullo

Guest chef: Cristina Trejo (Comunidad Vista Hermosa, Colón, Querétaro)

Organized by Proyecto Garambullo within the framework of Arte Abierto’s Public Program for the Modthern Nature exhibition by Gabriela Galván, it is an invitation to expand our notion of food in semi-desert territories, landscapes that in the imagination have been presented to us as not very fertile for sustain a varied diet. Contrary to what we have been told about soils such as Pedregal or the semi-desert, we will understand new ways of experimenting with ingredients that are part of the traditional gastronomy of the Querétaro semi-desert while we have an afternoon together, preparing our tortillas, salads and sauces, using ingredients collected from  Modthern Nature’s  exhibition room and sharing a stew made with garambullo sauce.

The foraging cuisine in the Querétaro semi-desert, rooted in nomadic traditions, is connected to the heritage of the cornfield, the basis of Mexican cuisine. It represents solid resistance against the loss of territory and food homogenization. These traditions defy the pressures of modernity and preserve the connection between people and their environment; furthermore, it is a cuisine that testifies to the ability of communities to resist the loss of their natural heritage while sustainably nourishing themselves from the land.

Public Program | Modthern Nature

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COLLECTIVE COOKING SESSION
With Proyecto Garambullo

Guest Chef: Cristina Trejo (Comunidad Vista Hermosa, Colón, Querétaro)

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PROYECTO GARAMBULLO
Based in Colón, Querétaro, Proyecto Garambullo is a multidisciplinary citizen initiative that, through artistic strategies, workshops, residencies, talks, walks, exhibitions, and technology, addresses issues that seek the preservation of the natural and cultural heritage of the area of the Querétaro semi-desert. Likewise, it seeks the respectful recovery and exchange of knowledge, carrying out actions that link this knowledge with the nature and biodiversity of the area. It proposes a change in the way research and knowledge production is understood, to contribute to the current debate on participatory practical research and the validation of creative methodologies for knowledge production.

IG @pgarambullo
www.proyectogarambullo.com/

ART & ARCHITECTURE DERIVES

Clara Porset’s Design: Between Tradition and Modernity

A conversation with Lorena Botello

In 1952, in the rooms of the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City and in the corridors of the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature of the recently inaugurated Ciudad Universitaria (University City), Clara Porset presented the first design exhibition in our country: Art in daily life. Good design objects made in Mexico. With approximately 800 objects manufactured in Mexico, both industrial and artisanal, with varied uses and diverse materials, this exhibition was a symptom of the transformations and new perceptions of modern life, which produced new relationships between art, design and architecture. in the 50s and onwards. Designer, teacher and interior designer, Clara Porset was one of the central figures of modern design in Mexico. Through her work, she challenged design conventions of her time, understanding it as a tool of change, embedded in daily life.

In this Derive, the researcher and curator Lorena Botello will introduce us to Clara Porset as a designer and also manager who contributed significantly to Mexican modernity. We will review aspects of two of her important projects: on the one hand, exhibition design and, on the other, her own designs in which she developed an aesthetic that combined the regional and the modern.

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Clara Porset’s Design: Between Tradition and Modernity.
A conversation with Lorena Botello

  • Saturday, October 21, 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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Lorena Botello (Mexico City, 1984)
She is an independent researcher and curator, dedicated to the study of modern and contemporary art and design history in Mexico. She is head of the Documentation Center at the Carrillo Gil Art Museum. She studied a master’s degree in Curatorial Studies from UNAM. She has participated in various research, editorial and curatorial projects in national and international institutions. As a curator, she recently held the exhibition Trazar una doble vocación. Sylvia Pandolfi (September 2023) and Picasso en la biblioteca de Alvar Carrillo, both at the Carrillo Gil Art Museum (May 2023). Among her most recent articles are: “Memoria de las exposiciones de escultura de Federico Silva” in the Federico Silva. Lucha y fraternidad: el triunfo de la rebeldía (Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, 2022) exhibition catalog. Struggle and fraternity: the triumph of rebellion (Museum of the Palace of Fine Arts, 2022) and “El diseño de la exposición El arte en la vida diaria” in the book Clara Porset Dumas. Reflexiones de diseño (2022), published by the Faculty of Architecture and CIDI of UNAM.

IG @lorenabotello

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.

September 30: Tonatiuh Martínez/ The garden as an extension of nature.

AMBIENT TO READ: TEXTURES

Sound action and reading session in Modthen Nature

As part of Arte Abierto’s Public Program that derives from the exhibition Modthern Nature by Gabriela Galván, which approaches different ways of understanding nature and the ecosystem of El Pedregal, Ambient to read proposes a live ambient and reading session within room, inspired by the textures within exhibition.

At Modthern Nature the surfaces are full of textures that can range from smooth to rough, that is why we turn to them to be able to build a bridge between music, reading and the pieces in the exhibition, with their gardens and technologies for sustaining life. For this session, Ambient to read brings together two musicians, Neurokill and Nico to mix a live ambient set, and the artist and poet Rocío Gallardo, who will share poems authored by her and other writers from a fanzine. Additionally, Coffee to Read will share some vessels with us to accompany the session.

As on every occasion, there will be coffee to share. Bring your readings! Welcome!

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AMBIENT TO READ: TEXTURES
Sound action and reading session in Modthen Nature

  • SAT.OCT.14.2023
  • 16:00 – 19:00 hrs.
  • Everyone can join (Adults, teens and kids accompained by an adult)
  • Free admission
  • Arte Abierto | 2nd Floor, Artz Pedregal

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AMBIENT PARA LEER
Is a proposal by Prohibido, Deseo and Café para leer. The three projects come together to offer a space where DJs interested in experimentation prepare a set thinking about various bodily alterations linked to the act of reading. The selection of texts and the setting is carried out by a guest artist per session, who proposes a textual route based on music. Ambient to read is an installation that seeks to tense the party with reading, breaking the cliché that in the first there is no knowledge and that the second only happens in the interior of silence. Interested in working with the decontextualization of spaces: electronic music outside of club culture, reading outside of academia, and art outside of galleries. The effect is always unexpected, however, the intention is to open a threshold so that bodies can be attentive to their surroundings, to the affections of the music and the intensities that all reading fosters.

IG @ambientparaleer

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ROCÍO GALLARDO
Born in Mexico and raised in Buenos Aires. She studied Hispanic Literature at UNAM and Cinema in Argentina. Her aunt taught her the craft of ceramics and she inherited the pleasure and disappointment of poetic writing from her grandfather.

IG @mabel.en.china

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NICO
DJ and producer. After leaving the techno project White Visitation, Nico has strived to avoid the limitations of musical styles. His explorations have ended in labels such as Timedance, Midnight Shift, or his own Akita Club. As a DJ he has performed at Mutek and Boiler Room, and has also managed to be exported to parties such as Pervert MX, Livity Sound in Bristol or Mother’s Finest in Berlín.

IG @nico__dubs

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NEUROKILL
They are a trans boy/non-binary DJ. They began producing music in 2020 and focuses on genres such as hardtechno, acid, psytrance, hardtrance, techno, hardcore, gabber, tribalcore, schranz, groove, industrial, hardtrance, experimental and oldschool, with touches of noise. Founder of BABY RATTA, a brand of parties aimed at the trans and non-binary community in Mexico City.

IG @neurokillkillkill

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).

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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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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.

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