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SALT AGENCY: INTERDISCIPLINARY REFLECTIONS ON SALT AND ITS CONTROVERSIES

A conversation with Tania Aedo & Maria Antonia González Valerio

Closing event for Troika’s No Sound of Water show at <Arte Abierto>.

  • Thursday May 12, 2022.
  • Time: 5pm.
  • Place: Espacio Arte Abierto.
  • For all interested.
  • Free entrance.
  • No registration needed.

As the closing event of Troika‘s exhibition No Sound of Water, we invite our visitors to attend the conversation: Salty Agency: interdisciplinary reflections on salt and its controversies. For this event we have cultural producer and curator Tania Aedo and philosopher Maria Antonia González Valerio as special guests. They will discuss the No Sound of Water exhibition from an interdisciplinary perspective, and will seek to extend the questions it offers.

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For more information about this event consult our Public Program or download the press release.

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Sunday May 15, 2022 is the last day to visit Troika’s No Sound of Water show. The exhibition opens from Tuesday to Sunday from 12:00 p.m. At 7:00 p.m. Free admission.

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Espacio Arte Abierto is located in ARTZ Pedregal, on the 2nd floor: Periférico Sur 3720, Jardines del Pedregal, Álvaro Obregón, Mexico City.

Espacio Arte Abierto is located on the 2nd floor in  ARTZ Pedregal (Periférico Sur 3720, Jardines del Pedregal, Álvaro Obregón) Mexico City.

SALT DRAWING LAB

CHILDREN’S DAY ACTIVITIES

DESCRIPTION

< Arte Abierto > invites all children to visit and experiment with us.

  • Saturday, April 30, 2022.
  • Time: 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
  • For children 5 to 10 years old..
  • Limited to 15 kids per group.
  • Free admission.
  • All the material is included and no registration is required.

SALT DRAWING LAB

< Arte Abierto > invites all children to celebrate Children’s Day through the Troika exhibition ‘No Sound of Water’ and salt.

Children will be able to participate in the activities of the Salt Drawing Laboratory:

  1. Using a children’s guide designed by <Arte Abierto> and be given to each child, the kids will be able to visit the exhibition with their family.
  2. They are invited to carry out a visual and tactile exploration with salt where they will be able to manipulate larger crystals and observe their geometry through a digital microscope.
  3. They will be able to paint salt crystals, guided by the mediation team of <Arte Abierto>.

 

See you soon!


No Sound of Water exhibition by the Troika collective will be open to the public from November 12 to May 15, 2022 at Espacio Arte Abierto, located on the 2nd floor of ARTZ Pedregal in Mexico City.

Free admission.

ARTZ Pedregal: Periférico Sur 3720, Jardines del Pedregal, Álvaro Obregón, Mexico City.

I CAN BE A SEED IN THE WATERFALL

NO SOUND OF WATER VIEW GUIDED BY SOFIA PROBERT

DESCRIPTION

Arte Abierto invites our public to Troika’s No Sound of Water show, in a guided visit with biologist Sofía Probert.

  • Thursday, February 28, 2022.
  • Time: 5:00 p.m.
  • Aimed at all public.
  • Limited to 15 atendees.
  • This event is free admission and no pre-registration is required.

IN THE WATERFALL I CAN BE A SEED

As part of the public program of < Arte Abierto > and the activities of the NO SOUND OF WATER exhibition, we invite the public to revisit the Troika exhibition together with the biologist and disseminator of the climate crisis, SOFÍA PROBERT; from a new narrative that seeks to reflect on how we dialogue with the complexity that inhabiting this present entails.

In the Waterfall I can be a Seed is a journey accompanied by Sofía Probert that seeks to intersperse the content of the exhibition No Sound of Water with its symbolic, biological level and with its intimate and sensitive scope, a scope that we discover as we are inside the installation.

It is an introspective visit to delve into the different concepts that the exhibition addresses; such as the idea of ​​the anthropocene, the notion of the inhospitable, synthetic biology, fictitious ecosystems, the power to imagine futures or the possibility of the existence of non-organic intelligences. Some elements that compose the installation will also be explored; such as salt, white-toned environment or sound.

From a collective dynamic outdoors and next to the trees of < Arte Abierto >, the participants will be able to close the process of their visit by sharing their experience in order to create a collective map of emotions.

In the Waterfall I can be a Seed is an invitation to (re)think the future of life based on one’s own experiences.

 

Sofía Probert (1999) She is currently studying Biology at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana UAM, Xochimilco. Her interest in biology has led her to develop, from different artistic disciplines, a constant dialogue between organic life and aesthetics, combining digital and analog processes. Her work proposes to rethink our relationship with the natural world from a critical reflection on the anthropocentric view of biodiversity, living beings and nature. Probert explores the ways in which organic life expresses itself aesthetically and develops a constant political discourse around socio-environmental problems such as the climate crisis and the struggle for women’s liberation.

Visit www.sofiaprobert.com to learn more about Sofía Probert.


No Sound of Water exhibition by the Troika collective will be open to the public from November 12 to May 15, 2022 at Espacio Arte Abierto, located on the 2nd floor of ARTZ Pedregal in Mexico City.

Free admission.

ARTZ Pedregal: Periférico Sur 3720, Jardines del Pedregal, Álvaro Obregón, Mexico City.

I CAN BE A SEED IN THE WATERFALL

A guided visit to Troika’s No Sound of Water exhibition by Sofía Porbert

• Thursday, April 28, 2022 at 5:00 pm.

• The objective of this activity is to revisit Troika’s  No Sound of Water show with Sofía Probert.

• Free admission.

• There will be a limited number of 15 participants.

• No registration required.

• At Espacio Arte Abierto and gardens.

Arte Abierto invites the general public to revisit the Troika’s exhibition No Sound of Water together with biologist Sofía Probert, from a new narrative that seeks to reflect on how we dialogue with the complexity that inhabiting this present entails.

I Can Be a Seed in the Waterfall is a guided visit with Sofía Probert that seeks to intersperse the content of the exhibition No Sound of Water with its symbolic, biological level and with its intimate and sensitive scope, a scope that we discover as we are inside the installation.

It is an introspective visit to delve into the different concepts that the exhibition addresses; such as the idea of ​​the anthropocene, the notion of the inhospitable, synthetic biology, fictitious ecosystems, the power to imagine futures or the possibility of the existence of non-organic intelligences. Some installation elements will also be explored; such as salt, white-toned environment or sound.

From a collective dynamic in the open air and next to Arte Abierto’s trees, the participants will be able to close the process of their visit by sharing their experience in order to create a collective map of emotions.

I Can Be a Seed in the Waterfall is an invitation to (re)think the future of life based on one’s own experiences.

Sofía Probert (1999)

She is currently studying Biology at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana UAM, Xochimilco. Her interest in biology has led her to develop, from different artistic disciplines, a constant dialogue between organic life and aesthetics, combining digital and analog processes. Her work proposes to rethink our relationship with the natural world from a critical reflection on the anthropocentric view of biodiversity, living beings and nature. Probert explores the ways in which organic life expresses itself aesthetically and develops a constant political discourse around socio-environmental problems such as the climate crisis and the struggle for women’s liberation.

Sofía Probert has participated in the El Aleph Festival organized by UNAM, in the Synergic exhibition in London, organized by Óvalo Galería de Arte and Art Number 23, in the Bahidorá Carnival Art Circuit in Las Estacas, Morelos, and has collaborated with illustrations for the New York Times Magazine, Revista Ambulante and Chilango.

She has collaborated in podcasts, interviews and disclosure texts for different media.

To learn more about Sofía Probert’s work visit: https://www.sofiaprobert.com/

Espacio Arte Abierto is located on the 2nd floor in  ARTZ Pedregal (Periférico Sur 3720, Jardines del Pedregal, Álvaro Obregón) Mexico City.

DERIVES OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Plastic integration of the buildings of the central campus at CU: its murals

Live talk with Gustavo Lipkau and Xavier Hierro about the plastic integration of the buildings of the central campus at CU: its murals.

At < Arte Abierto > we continue with our program Derives of Art and Architecture, and as special guests we have architects Gustavo Lipkau and Xavier Hierro.

The Central Campus at UNAM is an architectural complex in which engineers and artists jointly participated with the intention of merging disciplines such as architecture, painting and sculpture, under what became known as Plastic Integration.

In this talk, Gustavo Lipkau and Xavier Hierro will address the processes and searches of this movement and how it is reflected in eight fundamental buildings and murals on the university campus. It will be a conversation that, beyond theory, the architects will share events and anecdotes around the construction of this key space for Mexico City.

Live talk about the Plastic integration of the buildings of the central campus in CU
With Gustavo Lipkau and Xavier Hierro
Saturday, March 23, 2022
13:00 h
At Espacio Arte Abierto, located on the second floor in Artz Pedregal
Free admission

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Gustavo Lipkau Henríquez (Caracas, 1972) is an architect and urban planner.
He studied Architecture at UNAM and has been a visiting professor at universities both in Mexico and abroad. In 2000 he co-founded Futura Desarrollo Urbano (FDU), and between 2010 and 2012 he founded and coordinated the “Microurbanismo de Casa Vecina” workshops, of the Fundación del Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México A.C. and “Observatory of the City” in the Faculty of Architecture of the UNAM. Since 2015 he is part of Luxmart Futura S.A de C.V, a company dedicated to activities in industry, commerce, energy, and sustainability.

Xavier Hierro Ozores (Mexico City, 1973) is a graduate of the UNAM Faculty of Architecture.
He has 14 years of uninterrupted attendance as a student and apprentice teacher. He has dedicated himself to the professional practice of design for more than 25 years, acting as coordinator of multidisciplinary work teams focused on the production of infrastructures for education, health, security and public space. In parallel, he has added experiences in the design and manufacture of furniture, production of audiovisual works and installations and, more recently, in large-scale painting.

< Arte Abierto > continues with its new public program “Derivas de arte yarquitectura”, 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 drifts 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 Drifts :

February 26: Tania Ragasol / Urban environment, daily life and art: La Torre de los Vientos by Gonzalo Fonseca

March 26: David Miranda / Of the Wounded Animal and other sculptural events within modern architecture

ART AND ARCHITECTURE DERIVES

<Arte Abierto>’s Art and Architecture Derives is a program of routes proposed by invited curators, architects, artists and urban planners, to explore a series of architectural spaces and significant artistic interventions in public spaces in Mexico City. The purpose of the derives is to generate experiences of spatial rediscovery, which renew our view of the legacy of certain architectural and artistic works, both emblematic and forgotten.

The derives are held the last Saturday of each month of 2022 at 12:00 p.m. Free entry. Limited seating.

CONVERSATION WITH

GUSTAVO LIPKAU & XAVIER HIERRO

PLASTIC INTEGRATION OF THE BUILDINGS  OF THE CENTRAL CAMPUS IN CU: ITS MURALS

• Live conversation with Gustavo Lipkau and Xavier Hierro.

• Saturday, April 23, 2022. at 1:00 pm.

• The event will be held at Espacio Arte Abierto, located on the 2nd floor in Artz Pedregal.

• Free admission.

A conversation with Gustavo Lipkau y Xavier Hierro about the buildings of the central campus of Ciudad Universitaria, in Mexico City,  and its murals.

The Central Campus of the UNAM is an architectural complex in which engineers and artists jointly participated with the intention of merging disciplines such as architecture, painting and sculpture, under what became known as Plastic Integration. In this talk, Gustavo Lipkau and Xavier Hierro will address the processes and searches of this movement and how it is reflected in eight fundamental buildings and murals on the university campus. It will be a conversation where, beyond theory, the architects will share events and anecdotes around the construction of this key space for Mexico City.

Gustavo Lipkau Henríquez (Caracas, 1972) is an architect and urban planner.

He studied Architecture at UNAM and has been a visiting professor at universities both in Mexico and abroad. In 2000 he co-founded Futura Desarrollo Urbano (FDU), and between 2010 and 2012 he founded and coordinated the “Microurbanismo de Casa Vecina” workshops, of the Fundación del Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México A.C. and “Observatory of the City” in the Faculty of Architecture of the UNAM. Since 2015 he is part of Luxmart Futura S.A de C.V, a company dedicated to activities in industry, commerce, energy, and sustainability.

Xavier Hierro Ozores (Mexico City, 1973) is a graduate of the UNAM Faculty of Architecture.

He has 14 years of uninterrupted attendance as a student and apprentice teacher. He has dedicated himself to the professional practice of design for more than 25 years, acting as coordinator of multidisciplinary work teams focused on the production of infrastructures for education, health, security and public space. In parallel, he has added experience in the design and manufacture of furniture, production of audiovisual works and installations and, more recently, in large-scale painting.

Espacio Arte Abierto is located on the 2nd floor in ARTZ Pedregal (Periférico Sur 3720, Jardines del Pedregal, Álvaro Obregón) Mexico City.

DERIVES OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Of the Wounded Animal and other sculptural events within modern architecture

Live talk with David Miranda about Mathias Goeritz’s urban sculpture projects in Mexico..

< Arte Abierto > continues its program Derives of Art and Architecture with the artist and curator David Miranda.

In 1951 Mathias Goeritz made the sculpture The Wounded Animal. From that moment on, an urban dialogue began between sculptural and architectural production of modernity in Mexico that forms a unique distinctive in Latin America. David Miranda will talk about all the projects of the artist and teacher of German origin.

Live talk about Mathias Goeritz’s urban sculpture projects in Mexico
With David Miranda
Saturday, March 26, 2022
13:00 h
At Espacio Arte Abierto, located on the second floor in Artz Pedregal
Free admission

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David Miranda is a Mexican visual artist and curator.
He has a Master’s Degree in Curatorial Studies from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at UNAM and the Bachelor of Fine Arts at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving ENPEG “La Esmeralda”.
He was coordinator of the Aesthetic Education project in Mexico City, by the Mexican Institute of Art at the Service of Education (IMASE) in collaboration with the Lincoln Center Institute in New York (2003-2005). In 2011 he received the FONCA Young Creators Scholarship.
His artistic work has been shown in various cultural institutions in Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Spain and the United States.
Since 2005 he has combined his artistic activity with his work as a curator at the Museo Experimental El Eco. He is a member of the PAE (Art Education Platform) and is currently a professor within the ENPEG, La Esmeralda.

< Arte Abierto > continues with its new public program “Derivas de arte yarquitectura”, 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 drifts 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 Drifts :

February 26: Tania Ragasol / Urban environment, daily life and art: La Torre de los Vientos by Gonzalo Fonseca

March 26: David Miranda / Of the Wounded Animal and other sculptural events within modern architecture

ART AND ARCHITECTURE DERIVES

<Arte Abierto>’s Art and Architecture Derives is a program of routes proposed by invited curators, architects, artists and urban planners, to explore a series of architectural spaces and significant artistic interventions in public spaces in Mexico City. The purpose of the derives is to generate experiences of spatial rediscovery, which renew our view of the legacy of certain architectural and artistic works, both emblematic and forgotten.

The derives are held the last Saturday of each month of 2022 at 12:00 p.m. Free entry. Limited seating.

CONVERSATION: DAVID MIRANDA

OF THE WOUNDED ANIMAL AND OTHER SCULPTURAL EVENTS
WITHIN MODERN ARCHITECTURE

• Live conversation with David Miranda.

• Saturday, March 26, 2022. at 1:00 pm.

• The event will be held at Espacio Arte Abierto, located on the 2nd floor in Artz Pedregal.

• Free admission.

A conversation on urban sculpture projects of Mathias Goeritz in Mexico.

In 1951 Mathias Goeritz made the sculpture Animal herido. From that moment on, an urban dialogue began between sculptural and architectural production of modernity in Mexico that forms a unique distinctive in Latin America. The curator and artist David Miranda will talk about all the projects of the artist and teacher of German origin.


David Miranda has a Master’s degree in Curatorial Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at UNAM and the Bachelor of Fine Arts at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving ENPEG “La Esmeralda”. He was coordinator of the Aesthetic Education project in Mexico City, by the Mexican Institute of Art at the Service of Education (IMASE) in collaboration with the Lincoln Center Institute in New York (2003-2005). In 2011 he received the FONCA Young Creators Scholarship. His artistic work has been shown in various cultural institutions in Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Spain and the United States. Since 2005 he has combined his artistic activity with his work as a curator at the El Eco Experimental Museum. He is a member of the PAE (Art Education Platform) and is currently a professor at ENPEG, La Esmeralda.


Espacio Arte Abierto is located on the 2nd floor in ARTZ Pedregal (Periférico Sur 3720, Jardines del Pedregal, Álvaro Obregón) Mexico City.

ART AND ARCHITECTURE DERIVES

<Arte Abierto>’s Art and Architecture Derives is a program of routes proposed by invited curators, architects, artists and urban planners, to explore a series of architectural spaces and significant artistic interventions in public spaces in Mexico City. The purpose of the derives is to generate experiences of spatial rediscovery, which renew our view of the legacy of certain architectural and artistic works, both emblematic and forgotten.

The derives are held the last Saturday of each month of 2022 at 12:00 p.m. Free entry. Limited seating.

CONVERSATION: LA TORRE DE LOS VIENTOS

URBAN ENVIRONMENT, EVERYDAY LIFE AND ART

• Live conversation with Tania Ragasol.

• Saturday, February 26, 2022. at 12:00 pm.

• The event will be held at Espacio Arte Abierto, located on the 2nd floor in Artz Pedregal.

• Free admission.

The curator and art historian Tania Ragasol will talk in <Arte Abierto> about the history, importance and present of La Torre de los Vientos, an inhabitable sculpture that can also be thought of as an object perched on the urban fabric, a ghost of the urban landscape and a witness of the city.

La Torre de los Vientos was created by the artist and architect Gonzalo Fonseca (Uruguay, 1922 – Italy, 1997) as part of the Friendship Route (Ruta de la Amistad), a project conceived by Mathias Goeritz with the support of Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, to create a sculpture corridor with 19 stations (sculptures) by artists from five continents.

Part of this story will be revisited from the voice of Ragasol: from the creation of the project in the framework of the 1968 Mexico Olympic Games, to its current cultural program. The talk will be woven with personal anecdotes and historical data that account for the existence and future of La Torre de los Vientos, as well as its importance in the contemporary art scene in Mexico City in the 1990s.

The conversation follows up on the story that the presenter has made of this tower in #Visor, a podcast that she makes for the platform @convoynetwork.


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, Casa Vecina and Zona Maco. She currently hosts two programs on the @convoynetwork platform: #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.


Espacio Arte Abierto is located on the 2nd floor in ARTZ Pedregal (Periférico Sur 3720, Jardines del Pedregal, Álvaro Obregón) Mexico City.

CONVERSATION

< ARTE ABIERTO > IS PLEASED TO INVITE YOU TO THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN IRMGARD EMMELHAINZ AND SEBASTIEN NOEL

• February 23 , 2022

• MX 17:00 hr / UK 23:00 hr

• The public will be able to access remotely through https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82238362316

As part of <Arte Abierto>’s public program and the activities of our current exhibition No Sound of Water by the Troika collective, we invite you to attend via Zoom the conversation between the researcher and writer Irmgard Emmelhainz and Sebastien Noel from Troika, taking the exhibition as a starting point, they will address the issues present in this project, such as the Anthropocene, and will make different readings and questions (Materialist Realism / Philosophy of Matter / Art as Image).

The conversation will be carried out in english through Zoom. Irmgard Emmelhainz will stream live from No Sound of Water at <Arte Abierto>.


Irmgard Emmelhainz is a researcher and writer. Author, among other books, of Alotropias en la trinchera evanescente: estética y geopolítica en la era de la guerra total (2012), La tiranía del sentido común: la reconversión neoliberal de México (2016), El cielo está incompleto: cuaderno de viaje en Palestina (2017) y Jean-Luc Godard’s Political Filmmaking (2019). She has participated in seminars, courses and conferences at the University of Salamanca, The Americas Society New York, the District University of Bogotá, KASK. Art School in Ghent, Harvard School of Design, the Jumex Museum, SOMA and the Sharjah Biennale in the United Arab Emirates.
Irmgard’s photo by @LakeVerea is part of the project Artists in Presidents by Constance Hockaday, 2021


Troika’s No Sound of Water exhibition will be open to the public from November 12 to May 15, 2022 at Espacio Arte Abierto, located on the 2nd floor of ARTZ Pedregal in Mexico City..

ARTZ Pedregal: Periférico Sur 3720, Jardines del Pedregal, Álvaro Obregón, Mexico City.