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October 2023

Erick Meyenberg. 'Things We Do for Love'. Escultura cerámica, 2022. Colección Arte Abierto.

26 Oct ERICK MEYENBERG

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ERICK MEYENBERG

THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE, 2022

Ceramic sculpture

During a trip to Japan, Erick Meyenberg saw and filmed a chrysanthemum on a Tokyo cementery after falling because of a typhoon. The scence reverberated in the artista due to a personal momento he was going through that made everything around him look fragmented. Thus, from the Japanese philosophy and technique of Kintsugi, which consist of repairing broken ceramics, highlighting the joints to underline their value and beauty despite their fractures, he had the ide of making a sculpture of the dismembered petals of that flower –considered the imperial emblem of Japon–. Meyenberg then thought that the sculpture had to rise from the ground just as Aphrodite rose from the waters; its forms recover the strenght and movement ow water, while its color reflects the love and eroticism embodied by Aphrodite. The Kintsugi metaphor invite to reconize the beauty that exits even in the fragments or breaks that are part of life.

This work represents the first time that Meyenberg works with ceramics. It was conceived specifically for his video-installations Things We Do for Love, commissioned by Arte Abierto, and was produced at Cerámica Suro workshop in Guadalajara.

ERICK MEYENBERG

(Mexico, 1980)

Interdisciplinary visual artist who sees painting as a fundamental element of expression, although he also explores other media such as sound installation, drawing, collage, video and performance. In his work, he shows a special interest in literature, history, social sciences, and natural sciences. His work has been exhibited in spaces such as Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Museo Tamayo, inSite / Casa Gallina, Biennial of the Americas, Arts University of Berlin, among others.
Representative in the Mexico Pavilion at the 60th Venice Art Biennale (April, 2024) with the project ‘Nos marchábamos, regresábamos siempre’, along with curator Tania Ragaso.

Erick Meyenberg. 'Things We Do for Love'. Arte Abierto. Foto Oscar Caballero

18 Oct “NOS MARCHABAMOS, REGRESABAMOS SIEMPRE” AT THE VENICE ART BIENNALE 2024 🗓 🗺

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Nos marchábamos, regresábamos siempre, by visual artist Erick Meyenberg with curator Tania Ragasol is the project with which Mexico will participate in the 60th Venice Art Biennale 2024

Arte Abierto congratulates the artist Erick Meyenberg and the curator Tania Ragasol Valenzuela for their participation as representatives of the Mexico Pavilion at the 60th Venice Art Biennale, to be held from April 20 to November 24, 2024, with the project ‘Nos marchábamos, regresábamos siempre’, which addresses the reflection on the immigration asylum that is part of the history of Mexico.
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Things We Do For Love is a project commissioned by Arte Abierto to visual artist Erick Meyenberg (CDMX, 1980) which was on display from June, 2022 to February, 2023 art Espacio Arte Abierto. Composed of a video installation of 5 channels + 10.2 audio and a series of ceramic sculptures. Under the idea of the Japanese philosophy of Kintsugi, film material made in Japan is interwoven, through editing (Martha Uc), with material filmed later in Mexico, both by Meyenberg. The musical composition and sound design were in charge of RODERIC, which includes the participation of cellist Natalia Pérez-Turner. The sculptures were made at the Suro Ceramic Workshop in Guadalajara.

Detalle de Butaque. Foto tomada del Archivo Clara Porset, CIDI FA UNAM Programa Público Derivas de Arte y Arquitectura Arte Abierto

13 Oct LORENA BOTELLO – ART AND ARCHITECTURE DERIVES 🗓 🗺

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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.

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.

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.

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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 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.

Arte Abierto. Programa Público. Invitación: Ambient para leer

12 Oct AMBIENT TO READ: TEXTURES 🗓 🗺

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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!

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

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Modern/Mother Nature de Gabriela Galván, 2023. Vista de la instalación en Arte Abierto. Foto Silvio Balladares

05 Oct TRANSVERSAL TOURS – VALERIA MATA 🗓 🗺

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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.

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

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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