March 2025

SEARCH AMONG CELESTIAL BODIES

Children’s Day activity at Ugo Rondinone’s long last happy exhibition

Arte Abierto invites children and their families to a fun artistic experience to celebrate Children’s Day.

Search Among Celestial Bodies will take place within the long last happy exhibition by Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone. In this artistic adventure, little explorers, accompanied by their families, will be able to explore the exhibition in search of two figures: a sun and a moon represented as a phoenix, and a koi fish. These figures are hidden among hundreds of drawings of suns and moons that constitute the works “my age your age and the age of the sun” and “my age your age and the age of the sun”.

The project seeks to foster imagination, curiosity, and a sense of exploration in an artistic and collaborative environment that invites reflection on the passage of time and the connection between generations.

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SEARCH AMONG CELESTIAL BODIES
Children’s Day activity at Ugo Rondinone’s long last happy exhibition

  • SAT.APR.26.2025 – 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  • SUN.APR.27.2025 – 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  • Kids with their families
  • Free admission
  • Arte Abierto Pedregal | 2nd floor, ARTZ

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PUBLIC PROGRAM | long last happy

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long last happy by Ugo Rondinone is an exhibition that invites visitors to a luminous world inspired by the celestial forces of the natural world: the sun, the moon and the rainbow. Through monumental sculptures and an ongoing public participation project, Rondinone explores the themes of consolation, regeneration and spiritual connection.

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A THOUSAND WAYS TO OBSERVE A LANDSCAPE

Visual distortion workshop with Valentina Guerrero

This workshop invites you to explore the multiple ways in which a single landscape can be observed and represented. Through the creation of optical artifacts, each participant will experience how perception is transformed by the filters and tools used.

Through this workshop, Valentina Guerrero seeks to stimulate creativity and curiosity, inviting us to question and expand our way of seeing the environment through play and artistic experimentation.

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A THOUSAND WAYS TO OBSERVE A LANDSCAPE
Visual distortion workshop with Valentina Guerrero

  • SAT.APR.12.2025
  • 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
  • Children age 8 to 14
  • Limited capacity (15 participants)| Free
  • For registration enter here
  • Arte Abierto Pedregal | 2nd floor, ARTZ

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PROGRAMA PÚBLICO | long last happy

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Valentina Guerrero (Chile, 1994) Holds a master’s degree in Visual Arts from UNAM and is part of SOMA’s (Mexico City) educational program. Through her artistic research, Valentina explores issues related to the Capitalocene, hegemonic conceptions of nature, and the sociocultural meanings we assign to certain elements and bodies, such as the landscape. Her current work focuses on video, experimental writing, and the creation of glass pieces, which are activated through group cloud-gazing exercises. These optical and textual objects seek to reflect on how the sky and clouds can be perceived as monstrous traces of climate colonialism, linking empirical experiences with far-reaching historical events.

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at the Anahuacalli Museum (MX), the Museum of Visual Arts (CL), the Fortnight Institute (USA), Espacio Belgrado (ARG), Roam Projects (DE), the Carrillo Gil Art Museum (MX), the Telearte Institute (CL), and the Artespacio Gallery (CL), among others.

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IG @vdeguerrero

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long last happy by Ugo Rondinone is an exhibition that invites visitors to a luminous world inspired by the celestial forces of the natural world: the sun, the moon and the rainbow. Through monumental sculptures and an ongoing public participation project, Rondinone explores the themes of consolation, regeneration and spiritual connection.

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DUAL BALANCE

Slow Art Day

Observation + activation

Ugo Rondinone is an artist whose work is based on contrasts: opposing forces that complement and mutually propel each other. Joining the Slow Art Day initiative, Arte Abierto invites visitors to participate in a new way of experiencing the exhibition long last happy. Through individual and collective body activations, based on dance movements and performance, each visitor will have the opportunity to experience the sensation of opposing energies flowing through their own body.

Some of the Mexico City venues participating in this initiative are: Arte Abierto, Galería Alejandra Topete, Galería Color CDMX, Galería Arróniz, Galería Claroscuro, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Galería Ethra, Galería Karen Huber, Galería Kurimanzutto, Galería LS, Galería Le Laboratoire, Museo Kaluz, Galería Naranjo 141, Galería Oscar Román, Galería Proyecto Paralelo, Galería Third Born, Galería Tinta Naranja, Galería CAM, Galería Peana, Zona de Riesgo, Taller Cristina Torres, Galería Terreno Baldío, and Olivia Foundation.

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DUAL BALANCE
Observation + activation on Slow Art Day

  • SAT.APR.05.2025
  • 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm
  • 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm
  • Kids, teens and adults
  • Limited capacity | Free
  • Arte Abierto Pedregal | 2nd floor, ARTZ

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PROGRAMA PÚBLICO | long last happy

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Slow Art Day In 2009, Phil Terry, founder of Reading Odyssey and CEO of Collaborative Gain, launched The Slow Art Day, an ongoing initiative aimed at inspiring arts organizations to develop programming that facilitates slow viewing and active dialogue after the viewing experience. Slow Art is an approach that promotes the slow, in-depth observation of works of art, in contrast to the tendency to view them quickly in museums and galleries. For more information on this initiative, enter here.

www.slowartday.com

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long last happy by Ugo Rondinone is an exhibition that invites visitors to a luminous world inspired by the celestial forces of the natural world: the sun, the moon and the rainbow. Through monumental sculptures and an ongoing public participation project, Rondinone explores the themes of consolation, regeneration and spiritual connection.

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PORTALS OF THE SYMBOLIC

Transversal visit with Demian Mondragón from La Consultoría

In this tour of Ugo Rondinone’s exhibition long last happy, we will explore the profound connections between the artist’s works and the world of symbols, the unconscious, and psychology.

Rondinone’s participatory sculptures and drawings of the sun and moon will act as portals to access the symbolic plane and interpret the works from the perspective of the collective unconscious. In this way, we will analyze our own relationship with the cosmos, the importance of imagination in childhood, and resilience, using examples from art history and psychological approaches to these topics.

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PORTALS OF THE SYMBOLIC
Transversal visit with Demian Mondragón from La Consultoría.

  • THU.APR.03.2025
  • 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
  • For teenagers and adults
  • Limited capacity | Free
  • Arte Abierto Pedregal | 2nd floor, ARTZ

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PUBLIC PROGRAM | long last happy

Demian Mondragón (Mexico City, 1981) has a PhD in Arts and Design from UNAM, a master’s degree in Art History from the Institute of Aesthetic Research and the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the same university, and a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the National School of Painting, Sculpture, and Engraving “La Esmeralda.” His academic research focuses on the relationship between art, therapy, spirituality, and micropolitics. He is currently a professor and research associate at the School of Arts at Anáhuac University.

IG @demianmondragon

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La Consultoría is a platform dedicated to teaching and promoting contemporary art, founded in 2015 by artists Marlon García and Demian Mondragón. Their activities include art courses, personalized advice and mentoring for emerging artists, guided tours of exhibitions, and research on contemporary art published in the platform’s digital magazine. All of the pedagogical strategies implemented by La Consultoría seek to enhance the experience of exploring contemporary art, creating mediating dynamics that oscillate between academic specialization and entertainment.

 

www.laconsultoria.org

IG @laconsultoria_org

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long last happy by Ugo Rondinone is an exhibition that invites visitors to a luminous world inspired by the celestial forces of the natural world: the sun, the moon and the rainbow. Through monumental sculptures and an ongoing public participation project, Rondinone explores the themes of consolation, regeneration and spiritual connection.
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