Author: arte

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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POETRY TO GO

Guided visit + Charms Workshop

Through his rainbows in advertisement format, Ugo Rondinone rescues popular phrases, book titles, and fragments of songs or poems so that we can project our own desires, reflections, and everyday complexities.

In this guided visit + workshop through the long last happy exhibition we will talk about the artist’s work and his interests around poetry, and we will compose a Poem to Go in the form of a bracelet, charm, necklace or keychain. We will make a portable poem that seeks to free the word from the confines of paper, taking it to a world in motion.

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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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POETRY TO GO
Guided visit + Charms Workshop

  • SAT.MAR.15.2025 + SAT.MAR.22.2025
  • 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
  • For teenagers and adults
  • Limited capacity | Free
  • Arte Abierto Pedregal | 2nd floor, ARTZ

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PUBLIC PROGRAM | long last happy

ART & ARCHITECTURE DERIVES

Architecture and museum: The transformation of the Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo

Ximena Apisdorf

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Architecture and museum: The transformation of the Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo

Conversation with Ximena Apisdorf

  • Saturday, March 29, 2025
  • 13:00h
  • At Arte Abierto | 2nd floor ARTZ
  • Free admission

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No registration required.

To start the Art and Architecture Derives of 2025, our guest is Ximena Apisdorf.

The Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo (CC/AC) was a fundamental space in the cultural scene of Televisa, not only for its exhibitions, but for the way in which its architecture influenced its museum function. Designed by Juan Sordo Madaleno as the Press Center for the 1986 World Cup, its industrial structure and strategic location near Chapultepec facilitated its conversion into a museum under the direction of Robert Littman.

This Derive will explore how the design of the space allowed for innovative exhibitions and how the relationship between architecture and museography was reflected in key exhibitions such as that of Emilio Ambasz in 1994.

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Ximena Apisdorf Soto (Mexico, 1981)
Apisdorf is a communications expert with a background in arts and culture management, with a solid track record in critical analysis and production of content specialized in contemporary art. She is currently pursuing a Master’s in Communication at the Universidad Iberoamericana, researching the Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo.

She has developed her career in Mexico, the United States and Guatemala, collaborating in museums, galleries, cultural publications and dissemination platforms. She has extensive experience in radio, participating in opinion and analysis spaces. In addition, she has worked in content production for digital media, visual communication analysis and cultural dissemination strategies.

IG @ximenaapisdorf

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 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.

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.

October 21: Lorena Botello/ Clara Porset’s Design: Between Tradition and Modernity.

March 23: Alejandro Ochoa Vega y Francisco Haroldo Alfaro Salazar/ Cinemas in Mexico in the 20th Century: Distant Spaces in Memory.

April 20: Rodrigo Torres Ramos / Pictorial Functionalism: The proposal for plastic integration of Mario Pani and Carlos Mérida.

June 22: María Bustamante Harfush / Public work and collective housing by Abraham Zabludovsky.

July 27: Veka Duncan / El Art Déco en México. La nacionalización de la modernidad.

August 31: Balam Bartolomé / Visiones del Altépetl caído: Un relato de Tlatelolco desde el arte.

October 19: José Ignacio Lanzagorta / The sixties and the christening of the Zona Rosa.

November 23: Eder Castillo & Arturo Ortiz Struck / GuggenSITO beyond the unfolding cube. Public art and interactivity.

March 29: Ximena Apisdorf / Architecture and museum: The transformation of the Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo

UGO RONDINONE

long last happy

   FEB.09.2025 – JUN.15.2025

long last happy is an exhibition by Swiss contemporary artist Ugo Rondinone featuring works inspired by the principles of three celestial forces of the natural world: the sun, the moon, and the rainbow. Through these large-format sculptures and the activation created by 1600 children from diverse backgrounds, Rondinone explores the natural world and leads us to a reflection on human spirituality: solace and regeneration.

long last happy

“The natural world has held a place of great importance for my artistic practice across several decades. During the AIDS crisis in 1989 and after my partner Manfred Welser died of AIDS-related illness, I turned away from grief and found in nature a spiritual roadmap for solace, regeneration, and inspiration. In nature, you enter a space where the sacred and profane, the mystical and the mundane, vibrate against one another.

 

The exhibition at Arte Abierto is built upon the principles of three celestial forces from the natural world: the sun, the moon and the rainbow.

 

the sun and the moon (2022), are formed with delicate circles fashioned from castbronze tree branches, one gilded and the other silver leaved. The twin sculptures are both over sixteen feet tall. Installed parallel to one another, the sun and the moon are aligned along an east-west axis of Arte Abierto’s space, resembling portals or apertures.

 

Like the cycle of day and night, these two archetypes represent contradictory, codependent and complementary values. We can think of the sun and the moon as our metaphorical eyes. When the two principles marry, visions become binocular; that is; two visionary bodies of being integrate into one mysterious whole. Based on each one’s unique vision, the sun and the moon bring in different information that contributes to the vision guiding this exhibition and our own wild life.

 

These two sculptures are accompanied by two interactive artworks; your age and my age and the age of the sun (2013–ongoing) and your age and my age and the age of the moon (2020–ongoing). The visitors will find, behind a magic door, two rooms filled with thousands of images of the sun and the moon painted by children from all over Mexico. When I visited the space of Arte Abierto, I determined that public engagement would be one of the key aspects of the exhibition.

 

Acknowledging the Foundation’s interest in developing country-wide networks, I asked that my project should be far-reaching. Assisted by Arte Abierto’s Public Program department, I engaged 1,600 children from diverse backgrounds, including children with physical and developmental disabilities, and others from a range of socio-economic realities. Each child was invited to create a drawing for the installation with the promise that there would be no curatorial intervention and every sun and moon drawing produced would be presented.

 

Outside the exhibition space, on the rooftop, stands LONG LAST HAPPY (2020), a tenmeter-long neon, whose rainbow-striped letters spell out a poetic statement addressed to passers-by. This message of eternal bliss is timeless and unites people over millennia and continents. A rainbow is a bridge that unifies everything with everyone.”

– ugo rondinone december 2024

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Thank you to all the children from: AMPRE A.C. – ARTelier – Cedros International School: Taller de Artes Plásticas – Centro Educativo EXEA: 1ro, 2do, 3ro, 4to, 5to, 6to – Centro Urbano Presidente Alemán: 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 4A, 4B, 5A, 5B, 6A, 6B – Colegio Akil Bilingüe: 1ro, 2do, 3ro, 4to, 5to, 6to – Colegio del Valle: Prefirst, 1ro, 2do, 3ro, 4to – Colegio Giocosa: 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 4A, 4B, 5A, 5B, 6A, 6B – Colegio Junípero – Elementary School: PFA, PFB, PFC, 1A, 1B, 1C, 2A, 2B, 2C, 3A, 3B, 3C, 4A, 4B, 4C, 5A, 5B, 6A, 6B – Colegio Junípero – Preschool: PKA, PKB, PKC, KA, KB, KC, PPA, PPB, PPC, PPD – Colegio Montessori Itkan Ikal: Taller 1 y Taller 2 – Colegio Sagrado Corazón: 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 4A, 4B, 5A, 5B, 6A, 6B – Colegio Suizo de México A.C.: 3A, 4A, 5B, 6B – Estudio Nómade – Fundación Hogar Dulce Hogar I.A.P. – Green Gather: Squirel, Bengal Tiger, White Tiger, Bears, White Wolf, Black Wolf, Woodpecker Blue, Woodpecker Green, Black Puma, Golden Puma – Hogar “Las Nieves” A. C. – La Salle Pedregal: Taller de Arte y Diseño – Liceo Franco-Mexicano: CPE, CPF, CM1C – Más Arte Academia – Nahualita – Adriana Segura (Madre de familia) – Taller de Arte Infantil Club France.

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Visit long last happy by Ugo Rondinonefrom Tuesday to Sunday from 12 to 7 pm at Arte Abierto located on the 2nd floor at ARTZ (Periférico Sur 3720 Col. Jardines del Pedregal, CP. 01900 Mexico City.

Free admission.

UGO RONDINONE

long last happy, 2020

Neon, acrylic glass, translucent foil, aluminium.

Ugo Rondinone uses poetry and language as a basis to explore emotions that deeply impact human beings. LONG LAST HAPPY (2020), a ten-meter-long neon sign made up of rainbow-striped letters, is part of his Rainbow poems series. The title of the piece refers to a collection of short stories by the writer Barry Hannah.

For Rondinone, this piece is a poetic statement addressed to passersby, a message of eternal happiness that is timeless and unites people across millennia and continents.

A rainbow is a bridge that unites everything with everyone.

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UGO RONDINONE

(Switzerland, 1964)

Recognized as one of the major voices of his generation, Rondinone is an artist who composes searing meditations on nature and the human condition while establishing an organic formal vocabulary that fuses a variety of sculptural and painterly traditions. The breadth and generosity of his vision of human nature have resulted in a wide range of two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects, installations, videos, and performances. His hybridized forms, which borrow from ancient and modern cultural sources alike, exude pathos and humor, going straight to the heart of the most pressing issues of our time, where modernist achievement and archaic expression intersect.

Ugo Rondinone was born in 1964 in Brunnen, Switzerland. He studied at the Universität für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna before moving to New York in 1997, where he lives and works to this day. His work has been the subject of recent institutional exhibitions at Belvedere, Vienna (2021) Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Petit Palais, Paris, Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista di Venezia, Venice (2022), The Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva, Storm King, New York, The Städel Museum, Frankfurt (2023), Museum SAN, Wonju, Museum Würth 2 and Sculpture Garden, Künzelsau, The Kunstmuseum Lucerne, Switzerland and Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (2024). In 2007 he represented Switzerland at the 52nd Venice Biennale.

ugorondinone.com/
@ugorondinone0

UN LIBRO ES…

UN LIBRO ES… AN ENCOUNTER.UN ENCUENTRO

Un punto de encuentro para conversar, celebrar y difundir el gusto por los libros y los formatos impresos

Arte Abierto termina el año con la cuarta edición de su feria editorial Un libro es…

Un libro es… es mucho más que una feria, es un punto de encuentro en el sur de la CDMX donde cada año el público tiene la oportunidad de conversar, celebrar y difundir el gusto por los libros y los formatos impresos. Este 2024, nos reuniremos en nuestro jardín para disfrutar de un ambiente acogedor, en el que los visitantes podrán descubrir propuestas editoriales, participar en actividades y sumergirse en el mundo del arte editorial.

Acompáñanos en esta celebración del libro y la lectura.

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SAT.DIC.07.2024
13:00 – 19:30 h
Free admission
Arte Abierto Garen | 2 floor – ARTZ

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PARTICIPATING PUBLISHERS AND PROJECTS

Brillantinas MUAC

A collective space for digital, pedagogical and management experimentation with a gender perspective. This multidisciplinary program has explored various methods through social networks to strengthen the museum with a young and not so young public, generating a sense of belonging by building bridges with digital, ecological, esoteric, kawaii, queer, non-binary and anti-patriarchal practices.

@brillantinas_muac

muac.unam.mx/las-brillantinas

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Cafeleería

Read and laugh at Cafeleería.

Cafeleería is a cultural center, bookstore and cafeteria in the Municipality of Coyoacán, dedicated to the sale, dissemination and activation of books, printed materials and editorial projects that are unique, original and different from those of large bookstores.

@cafeleeria

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Estudio Nómade

Estudio Nómade is a project by Elvia González and Carlos Villajuárez who combine their multiple disciplines to generate a space for creation, play, imagination, exchange of ideas, art and speculation.
Within the studio they put into practice exercises that combine different disciplines such as: visual arts, cinema, theater, literature, illustration and editorial design; in order to achieve a novel and playful space, where participants can discover other ways of creating and put it into everyday practice.

Within the development of the workshops, dynamics of integration, participation and collaboration are established. Where creative capacity and sensitivity stand out as something natural in each one of us.

@estudio___nomade

www.estudionomade.co

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Fulgencio Pimentel

An independent publisher, originally from Spain and focused on the high-quality edition of fiction, graphic novels, poetry, art books and illustrated books, for all ages. Their policy is to be faithful to artistic principles.

fulgenciopimentel.com/

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GLACIAR. Frozen books

This is a bookstore/ice cream shop located in the San Rafael neighborhood. Its editorial selection focuses on independent publications and includes art books, narrative, essays, poetry, illustration and others that break away from genres.

@libroshelados

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Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil

At MACG Ediciones, publications are understood as a powerful tool to broaden the scope and deepen reflection on artistic discourses. Their collection is nourished by the exhibition and educational programming of the Carrillo Gil Art Museum. MACG Infantil is an editorial series that calls upon writers, artists, and illustrators to create narratives inspired by the works of the museum’s founding collection. Together, they seek to promote reading, imagination, and an approach to art from childhood.

@museocarrillogil

museodeartecarrillogil.inba.gob.mx

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piedra ediciones

A series of artistic projects that use printed publications as a means of circulation, turning each copy into a multiple and simultaneous piece. Each title is the result of collaboration and curatorial/editorial support, thus generating a collection of book-works that can be read, circulated and distributed in environments accessible to a wide audience and not just as unique objects.

piedra ediciones is a project by Alfonso Santiago.

@piedraediciones

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Trece Ojos

Editorial production and risographic printing studio, located in Mexico City. Since its founding in 2020 and with an emphasis on personal narratives and those of the LGBTTI+ community, this project seeks to materialize the stories and accompany the processes and concerns of its collaborators.

@trece.ojos

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Young Collectors

A platform dedicated to the dissemination of visual creators. It seeks to generate new collectors and give space to young artists in Mexico through exhibitions, collaborations, PopUp Shows and consultancies. They like to rethink and produce the spaces and typologies in which creatives meet, dialogue, build or imagine together.

@youngcollectorsmx

www.youngcollectors.com.mx

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Arte Abierto

Fundación Arte Abierto own seal and editorial line which seeks to reflect on contemporary art practices, based on publications that arise from its own exhibition projects. Through editorial exercises that try to expand the writing of art and put it in dialogue with other disciplines, as well as to think of the book as a space of creation and knowledge, their books delve into the artistic and conceptual proposals of the exhibitions commissioned and are presented specifically for Arte Abierto’s space.

@arte_abierto

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Join us and spend time together among books.

A book is… the best way to celebrate 2024.

Learn about Arte Abierto’s Editorial Program at the Polyforum Siqueiros.

  • Arte Abierto participates in the 2nd edition of Pie de Imprenta.
  • Arte Abierto presents its editorial project.
  • Pie de Imprenta is a traveling art book fair organized by ESPAC.

 

Mexico City, November 10, 2024.- The Arte Abierto editorial project will participate in the 2nd edition of Pie de Imprenta with four publications: Luz Instante, Things We Do for Love, Modern Nature and Cositas. Arte Abierto’s editorial project is to offer books that generate free discussions about the exhibitions commissioned by the Foundation. More than a catalog or artist’s book, it is an extension of the exhibition that opens up to dialogue, to different points of view.

Pie de imprenta is a traveling art book fair organized by ESPAC. The second edition will take place on Saturday, November 16, 2024 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., at the Polyforum Siqueiros facilities. This edition will feature more than 60 national and international exhibitors, a rich public program that includes talks, workshops and activations.

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SAT.16.NOV. 2024
11:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Polyforum Siqueiros (Av. Insurgentes Sur 701, Nápoles, CDMX. Entrance through Filadelfia)
Free admission

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PARTICIPATING PUBLISHERS
Alacraña / Libros de Mano, Alias editorial, Analog Typologies, Arte Abierto, Beibi Creisi, Bienal Tlatelolca, Big Sur, Brillantinas MUAC, Can Can Press, Casa Bosques Librería, Casa Gallina, Centro de la imagen, Cuadernillo de dibujo, DINAMITA, Doroteo y el conejo de la Luna, eco hace troje, Ediciones de Interés General / Nuevo Orden, Ediciones MACG, Ediciones sin resentimiento, Ediciones Vorágine Urbana / Saca la Lengua Fanzine, ESPAC, Fauna, Festina Publicaciones , FIEBRE Ediciones, Formas Nómadas, Fundación Jumex, Galería Mal d3 ojo, Gato negro ediciones, GLACIAR LIBROS HELADOS, Gris Tormenta, HagoLibros / eKphrasis, Hasard ediciones , Hyper-vinculo, Impresos México / Miau Ediciones, Juan de la Cosa, Kobayashi Books Press, La Duplicadora, Luxpluslux Editorial, Malviviente, Merlina, librería anticuaria, Mi Valedor, MONOMÁNTICO, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Máquina de aplausos, Nadie Distribuye, NIXXXON | PARALELO, OMG PRESS, piedra ediciones, Pinche Chica Chic, Pitzilein Books, Roga Ediciones, S.AR.A., Servidor Local, SILVESTRE, Studio H13, Suave, taller de ediciones económicas, Temblores Publicaciones, Trece Ojos, Triste Club y Tristes Trópicos Editorial.

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ESPAC

Non-profit organization dedicated to the study, dissemination, and promotion of current artistic production based on multiple readings and approaches to its collection and the needs of Mexico’s artistic community. Our projects and mission have taken a collaborative approach over the years. The curatorial discourse has been nurtured by the interests of each member of the team, as well as by the traces left by our collaborators.

espac.org.mx/
IG: @espacmx

ART & ARCHITECTURE DERIVES

GuggenSITO beyond the unfolding cube. Public art and interactivity

Eder Castillo & Arturo Ortiz Struck

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GuggenSITO beyond the unfolding cube. Public art and interactivity

Conversation with Eder Castillo & Arturo Ortiz Struck

  • Saturday, November 23, 2024
  • 13:00h
  • At Arte Abierto | 2nd floor ARTZ
  • Free admission

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No registration required.

For the last Derive of the year and on the occasion of the presentation of the GuggenSITO at Múltiple, Eder Castillo will talk to us about his production and connection processes along with Arturo Ortiz Struck, as well as the strategies applied in this and in each of his works and projects that he has been carrying out to date.

Eder Castillo is an artist who hybridizes the cultural institution and the artistic object to create exceptional spaces, spaces different from those produced by the current city, and also different from those that make up museums and art centers. Through different experiences, he emphasizes performativity and interactivity. His work has focused on the generation of spaces and aesthetic moments that allow the encounter and interaction between non-traditional audiences and art.

We resume Derives of Art and Architecture in 2025, follow our social networks for more information.

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Eder Castillo (Tlalnepantla, Mexico 1977)
Self-taught visual artist and curator focused on sociocultural research and art in public spaces, at the intersection of architecture, visual arts and anthropology. His projects aim at an interaction between non-traditional audiences and art. In parallel, he has developed professionally in the field of curating, teaching and cultural management. He has been a member of the National System of Art Creators of FONCA since 2020 in the discipline of alternative media.

He has participated in multiple residency programs such as Tabacalera Estancias para Comisarios de Iberoamérica-Ministerio de Cultura de España (ES), Fundación Arteria- Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño (CO), Fundación YAXS (GT) and Casa Vecina Fundación del Centro Histórico (MX); Beneficiary of the PAC/COVID-19 Support Fund (2020), FONCA-CONACYT International Artistic Residencies Program (2012-2013), FONCA Young Creators Program (2010), FONCA Special Support Program (2010), Support Program for Production and Research in Art and Media Centro Multimedia-CNA (2006) and FONCA National System of Art Creators (2020-2023). His work has been shown in Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy, Slovenia, Poland, Indonesia, Japan, Egypt, South Africa, USA, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, among other countries.

IG @edercastilloj
guggensito.blogspot.com/
antimuseo.org/

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Arturo Ortiz Struck

He was a member of the National System of Art Creators in the disciplines of architecture (2007-2010) and visual arts (2011-2014). He has participated in different exhibitions among which stand out: Extravío, museum of medicine, UNAM 2023-24, Territorios arrasados, MUCA, UNAM, 2019, Triennale of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, China, 2005; Financial Architectures in London, UK, 2017; Vivir adentro, Venice Architecture Biennale 2008, among many others. In 2012 he won the national journalism award “Faces of discrimination” for the article: “from architecture, discrimination”. In 2023 he published the novel called: “The map of my neurosis”

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 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.

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.

October 21: Lorena Botello/ Clara Porset’s Design: Between Tradition and Modernity.

March 23: Alejandro Ochoa Vega y Francisco Haroldo Alfaro Salazar/ Cinemas in Mexico in the 20th Century: Distant Spaces in Memory.

April 20: Rodrigo Torres Ramos / Pictorial Functionalism: The proposal for plastic integration of Mario Pani and Carlos Mérida.

June 22: María Bustamante Harfush / Public work and collective housing by Abraham Zabludovsky.

July 27: Veka Duncan / El Art Déco en México. La nacionalización de la modernidad.

August 31: Balam Bartolomé / Visiones del Altépetl caído: Un relato de Tlatelolco desde el arte.

October 19: José Ignacio Lanzagorta / The sixties and the christening of the Zona Rosa.

November 23: Eder Castillo & Arturo Ortiz Struck / GuggenSITO beyond the unfolding cube. Public art and interactivity.

ART & ARCHITECTURE DERIVES

The sixties and the christening of the Zona Rosa

José Ignacio Lanzagorta

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The sixties and the christening of the Zona Rosa

Conversation with José Ignacio Lanzagorta

  • Saturday, Octobre 19, 2024
  • 13:00h
  • At Arte Abierto | 2nd floor ARTZ
  • Free admission

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No registration required.

Mexico City’s Zona Rosa is, above all, an imaginary.That is, on a diffuse perimeter of Colonia Juárez, a series of emotions, ideas, experiences and anxieties are projected. Perhaps, this cloud of meanings began to take form in the 1920s, but it was in the 1960s when it became self-aware. A group of artists, intellectuals, journalists and more reflected on what they saw, did, prophesied and sentenced there. They even gave it the name: Zona Rosa. And this imaginary managed to expand and transcend the following generations.

The Zona Rosa is a space for recreation, transgressions, cosmopolitan life and nostalgia; it is a territory that feels contradictory since its christening: “neither red nor white, but pink, precisely pink.” In our next Derive we will analyze those 1960s and that endearing space that was both decadent and avant-garde.

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José Ignacio Lanzagorta
He has a PhD in Social Sciences from El Colegio de México. His main research topic is the urban cultural history of Mexico City and he teaches different history subjects at ITAM, the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana and Centro programs. He has also been a tourist guide, consultant for cultural institutions, columnist and editor of La Brújula, a blog by Nexos magazine, dedicated to city and urban planning issues. Recently he joined the Public Communication of History team at UNAM’s Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas.

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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.

October 21: Lorena Botello/ Clara Porset’s Design: Between Tradition and Modernity.

March 23: Alejandro Ochoa Vega y Francisco Haroldo Alfaro Salazar/ Cinemas in Mexico in the 20th Century: Distant Spaces in Memory.

April 20: Rodrigo Torres Ramos / Pictorial Functionalism: The proposal for plastic integration of Mario Pani and Carlos Mérida.

June 22: María Bustamante Harfush / Public work and collective housing by Abraham Zabludovsky.

July 27: Veka Duncan / El Art Déco en México. La nacionalización de la modernidad.

August 31: Balam Bartolomé / Visiones del Altépetl caído: Un relato de Tlatelolco desde el arte.

October 19: José Ignacio Lanzagorta / The sixties and the christening of the Zona Rosa.

MÚLTIPLE

Múltiple is a space for sharing. Here you can talk, contemplate, ask questions, explore or just hang out; come alone or accompanied, with friends or family, with children, young people or adults.

Múltiple is An Arte Abierto program that seeks to generate connections, exchanges and collaborations with projects that explore different possibilities of approaching art from various disciplines.

In October and November, Múltiple will bring together four projects to experiment with digital art processes, dance, public art and theater, using our exhibition hall simultaneously to transform it into an open forum for activities and a space for interaction between audiences, projects and artists.

Our goal is to spontaneously share and connect with art through devices, presentations, workshops and activities that reflect the personality, processes, themes and particular searches of each of our guests:

CUTOUT TRACK 03 – Digital Arts
THEATER FACTO – Theater
TRAZO – Contemporary dance
GUGGENSITO– Public Art and Social Architecture

All Múltiple activities are free and for all audiences.

Múltiple en Arte Abierto (cartel)