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May 2023

Gabriela Galván, Modern Nature/ Mother Nature, 2023. Tubo de vidrio pigmentado violeta, tubo de vidrio pigmentado amarillo, argón, mercurio, electrodos metálicos, corriente eléctrica 35 cm x 3.50 m x 12cm Foto: Guadalupe Salcedo. Cortesía de Arte Abierto

30 May MODERN/MOTHER NATURE 🗓

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GABRIELA GALVÁN

MODTHERN NATURE

06.2023 – 11.2023

Intro Bio Modern/Mother Nature Endemic plants of El Pedregal / Modern/Mother Nature, 2023

MODTHERN NATURE

Modthern Nature is a multisensorial and site-specific installation commissioned to artist Gabriela Galván (Mexico City, 1974) by Arte Abierto, with which our space is turned into an endemic and hydroponic garden which seeks to reflect upon the humanity-nature relationship, taking biodiversity and the transformation of El Pedregal as a result of modern thought as a starting point.

Modthern Nature arises from the interest in experiencing with the concept of transformation, privileging the contemplation of natural and everyday happenings through the senses. For Galván, transformation and temporality are notions which could be explored through art as fields of experimentation, investigation and knowledge, having the immediate context as reference and creating connections between living beings, places and cultures.

What we currently conceive as an urban zone, and was known in ancient Mesoamérica as Cuicuilco, was a territory which was buried by the eruption of the Xitle Volcano, provoking a volcanic landscape which we have nowadays come to witness, live in and think through. Later, during the 20th century, the area was intervened by a modern style of architecture which allows us to notice the links between natural development and human development.

The changes that the El Pedregal has undergone throughout its history allow us to think in concepts such as transformation, temporality and contemplation, which are of interest to the artist. The act of approaching this context from the vantage point of the present is not fortuitous: in the midst of our contemporary lives, it becomes urgent to contemplate the endemic nature that surrounds us in order to be able to recognize the knowledge transmitted by plants, rocks and living beings, as thus, reimagine our relationship to nature and our sense of belonging to it.

As Gabriela Galván puts forth, Modthern Nature suggests a re-enchantment with nature, but also reflects upon the importance of the sensorial aspect and our lived experience through its means. This project isn’t but a single glance at the grandiosity and complexity of El Pedregal, as guided by the knowledge of biologists, geologists, historians, landscapists and researchers who have studied the wisdoms of this historical space. This is also the first grand scale exhibition that Gabriela Galván has shown in Mexico for the past 10 years, and one of the most complex in her career.

Gabriela Galván’s exhibition, Modthern Nature, will be open from June to November 2023, Tuesday to Sunday from 12 to 7 pm at Espacio Arte Abierto located on the 2nd floor Artz Pedregal (Periférico Sur 3720 Col. Jardines del Pedregal, CP. 01900, Mexico City).

We appreciate the support and advice to make this project possible to: Eduardo Berumen, Dra. N. Ivalú Cacho González, Arq. Wilfredo Cahuantzi Sigüenza, Blga. Teresa Castaño, Bettina Cetto, Dra. Silke Cram, Ing. Antonio González Guzmán, Ing. Luis Lin, Dra. María Fernanda Martinez-Báez Téllez, Pablo Villaseñor, Facultad de Ciencias de la Tierra (UNAM), Jardín Botánico (IB-UNAM), Reserva Ecológica del Pedregal de San Ángel (UNAM) y Taller de Paisaje Entorno.

Derivas de Arte y Arquitectura MOVIMIENTO DE LA INTEGRACIÓN PLÁSTICA EN MÉXICO: MÁS QUE MURALES SOBRE EDIFICIOS Conversación con Rebeca Barquera Arte Abierto

16 May REBECA BARQUERA – ART AND ARCHITECTURE DERIVES 🗓 🗺

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ART & ARCHITECTURE DERIVES

The Plastic Integration Movement in Mexico:

More than Murals on Buildings.

Conversation with Rebeca Barquera

The historian and researcher Rebeca Barquera joins us in this 11th Art and Achitecture Drive.

In the middle of the 20th century, the Plastic Integration movement arose in Mexico, which sought to incorporate painting and sculpture into modern constructions, with the intention of fusing art with architecture, which produced a broad debate in which multiple voices from various disciplines and with very different arguments were involved. On the one hand, there was the architects and engineers point of view, and on the other, there were the discussions between artists interested in representation, the problem of technique and reflections on the transition of the muralist movement towards the exterior.

From the Cárcamo de Dolores (1951) going through the Museo Cabeza de Juárez (1972-1976), in this Derive Barquera will address some of the representative examples that managed to question the tradition of Plastic Integration from different positions and questions about representation and abstraction, the body and the landscape, and the form and ideology of the movement itself.

The Plastic Integration Movement in Mexico: More than Murals on Buildings. A conversation with Rebeca Barquera.

Saturday, May 27, 2023
13:00h
At Espacio Arte Abierto, located on the 2nd flor in Artz Pedregal
Free admission

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Rebeca Barquera
She is an art historian, researcher and teacher. PhD in Art History from UNAM, her interests focus on the study of utopias, ghosts, erasures and anonymities in modernism, as well as the intersection of art and architecture with technology and scientific discourses in the last decades of the century. XIX Century and the first half of the XX. She is currently a professor at the College of History of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters and is doing a stay at the Institute of Bibliographic Research thanks to the Postdoctoral Scholarship program at UNAM.

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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 complex.

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

TANIA CANDIANI (MÉXICO, 1974) KIOSKO SONORO, 2018 Estructura de acero, trompetas, tubos, bases de concreto. Colección Arte Abierto

16 May METAL ON METAL ON WIND 🗓 🗺

Posted at 00:13h in Public Program

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METAL ON METAL ON WIND

PEPE MOGT & TANIA CANDIANI

KIOSCO SONORO ACTIVATION

As part of Arte Abierto’s Public Program and in collaboration with MUAC (Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo), METAL ON METAL ON WIND, will take place, an outdoor sound intervention by Pepe Mogt to activate the sculpture Kiosko sonoro (2018) by Tania Candiani. This art piece is part of the Arte Abierto Collection and is comprised of a series of interconnected trumpets, which refers to the traditional kiosks in public squares. Its shape reflects on the social and cultural dynamics behind these constructions and how we appropriate them in our daily lives.

METAL ON METAL ON WIND
Kiosko sonoro activation
Pepe Mogt & Tania Candiani.

Friday, May 26, 2023
18:00h
Free
At Kiosko sonoro‘s garden, located on the 2nd floor in Artz Pedregal

Tania Candiani (Mexico City, 1974)
She lives and works in Mexico City. One of the central interests of her work is the expanded idea of translation, extended to the experimental field through the use of visual, sound, textual and symbolic languages. Many of her projects consider the universe of sound and the politics of listening as a tool capable of expanding and transforming perceptions, both human and non-human. A fundamental part of her work is related to feminist policies and practices, understanding them as a communal, affective and ritual experience. Its production usually involves interdisciplinary work groups in various fields, consolidating intersections between art, literature, music, architecture, science, and labor, with an emphasis on ancestral knowledge and techniques, technologies, and their history in the production of knowledge. She is a member of the National System of Art Creators of Mexico; she is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in the Arts, the Smithsonian Institution Research Grant for Artists; she is an artist-in-residence at the Arts at CERN program, in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2015 she represented Mexico at the 56th Venice Biennale. Her work has been exhibited internationally in museums, institutions and independent spaces, and is part of important public and private collections.

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Pepe Mogt
He is an electronic musician from Tijuana, seed of sound and creator of the Nortec concept. Today he experiments as a soloist in other sound and visual fields. As a producer and composer, his works are a mix of Techno with ambient progressions and have taken him to festivals such as MUTEK (Tokio, Montreal, Mexico), Glastonbury, FUSION (Germany), CRSSD (CA), SXSW (Austin) among others. in addition to various nightclubs from around the world. With Nortec Collective 2 Grammy nominations and 3 Latin Grammy Nominations.

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METAL ON METAL ON WIND Tania Candiani & Pepe Mogt Activación de Kiosko Sonoro Arte Abierto

Modern / Mother Nature. Gabriela Galván. Arte Abierto. Foto Guadalupe Salcedo

11 May GABRIELA GALVÁN IN ARTE ABIERTO 🗓 🗺

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GABRIELA GALVÁN:

MODTHERN NATURE

NEXT IN ARTE ABIERTO

Arte Abierto once again transforms its exhibition space with a project commissioned to mexican artist Gabriela Galván, a multisensory installation composed by living nature.

Modthern Nature by Gabriela Galván, a site-specific installation in which Arte Abierto is transformed into a natural and sensorial hydroponic garden, that seeks to generate cognitive, contemplative and imaginative experiences around nature and our belonging to it. In addition, for the first time an Arte Abierto exhibition extends to the public space of Artz Pedregal with a natural and artistic garden.

The proposal takes El Pedregal as a starting point as a site that has been transformed throughout history, beginning with the construction of Cuicuilco, one of the most important and ancient cities in the Valley of Mexico (800 BC – 250 AD), buried by lava caused by the eruption of the Xitle volcano and whose effect resulted in a volcanic landscape that we can still witness, live and think about. Another key reference is the modernist architecture of the mid-twentieth century that was developed in this area and that responded to a process of modernization of the city, which allows us to think about the different transformations that the Pedregal area has undergone in its different temporalities. Some examples are the Casa Estudio Max Cetto and the Casa Cueva de Juan and Helen O’Gorman, where the architectural forms responded to the foundations of the volcanic terrain and in which gardens with rocks and endemic plants of the area were designed, thus showing, the integration between nature and human development.

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Gabriela Galván (Mexico City, 1974)
Artist and art educator. Her work focuses on exploring the concept of transformation through different media such as installation, public art, sculpture, video, drawing, design, and performance. She is interested in the processes of study, production, dialogue, and interaction that involve interconnectivity and the open exchange of ideas and sensory experiences. She is currently focused on processes of exploration of time, to develop a body of work in relation to flowers and living plants.
Her work has been part of exhibitions in museums and galleries such as the Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofía (Spain), the Kunsthaus Baselland (Switzerland), the Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Germany), the Museo Tamayo, the Museo de Arte Moderno (MX), the Museo Carrillo Gil, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros and the Museo de la Ciudad de México, to name a few. As an art educator, she has been a visiting professor at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design in Basilea, Poznań University of Fine Arts, the New York Fashion Institute of Technology, and the Brooklyn College (CUNY), among others. She currently lives and works in New York.

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Modern / Mother Nature. Gabriela Galván. Arte Abierto. Foto Roberto Velázquez