09 Sep PARALLEL LANDSCAPES VISIT THREE 🗓 🗺
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.
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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.
