20 Feb TANIA RAGASOL – DERIVES OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE 🗓 🗺
< Arte Abierto > begins its new public program “Derives of Art and Architecture”, a series of routes proposed by guest curators, architects, artists and urban planners to explore a series of architectural spaces and artistic interventions that are historically significant for different public spaces in Mexico City .
The objective of the derives 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.
Each meeting will be guided by a professional in the field to address the importance of these places from the oral narrative and with the intention of generating a dialogue with the attending public.
The derives will be carried out free of charge on the last Saturday of each month, at 12:00 p.m. with a limited capacity.
Next meetings:
February 26: Tania Ragasol / Urban environment, daily life and art: La Torre de los Vientos by Gonzalo Fonseca
Urban environment, daily life and art
Live talk: La Torre de los Vientos
With guest curator Tania Ragasol
Saturday, February 26, 2022
At 12:00h
In Espacio Arte Abierto, located on the second floor of Artz Pedregal
Free admission.
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No need to register.
Live talk about La Torre de los Vientos by , as an inhabitable sculpture, as an object perched in the urban fabric, as a ghost of the urban landscape and as a witness of the city.
The talk aims to recount the history of La Torre de los Vientos: from the 1968 Olympics in Mexico and its cultural program, to the present day.
A story that weaves personal anecdotes with historical data to recount the existence and future of La Torre de los Vientos and its importance in the contemporary art scene of the 90s in Mexico City.
The talk is based on Tania Ragasol’s account of La Torre de los Vientos in #Visor, a podcast recorded on the @convoynetwork platform.
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La Torre de los Vientos (station number 6) was created by the artist and architect Gonzalo Fonseca (Uruguay, 1922 – Italy, 1997) as part of the Friendship Route, a project conceived by Mathias Goeritz with the support of Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, with the objective of creating a sculptural corridor with 19 stations (sculptures) made by artists from the five continents as part of the ’68 Cultural Olympics in Mexico. Currently La Torre de los Vientos is a multidisciplinary art laboratory created in 1996 by Luis Javier de la Torre González in collaboration with Gonzalo Fonseca, which has a current program of artistic experimentation projects.
For more information about La Torre de Los Vientos visit La Ruta de la Amistad website.
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Tania Ragasol is an art historian, curator and coordinator of contemporary art projects. She has a career of more than 20 years as a curator, editor and manager, in spaces and institutions such as the Carrillo Gil Art Museum, the Tamayo Museum, inSite_05, the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City, Casa Vecina and Zona Maco. She currently hosts two shows on the platform @convoynetwork : #Visor, a podcast in which she shares personal and professional experiences about art in Mexico City during the 90s, and #TaniaRagasolEnConvoy, a live broadcast about music and culture.
In addition, she is responsible for the curatorship and conceptual development of projects at Oficina Particular, a cooperative of contemporary art professionals.
