Noticias

Lanzamiento del libro Cositas y clausura

  • The launch of the book Cositas is August 10th. Mario García Torres will be attending.
  • Cositas exhibition by Mario García Torres last day will be August 11, 2024.
  • Composed of 6 works designed for the Arte Abierto Cositas is García Torres’ first solo exhibition outside of conventional art spaces.

 

Mexico City, August 6, 2024.- Regarding the end of Cositas, Arte Abierto and Mario García Torres announce the publication which emerges from the exhibition, with a get-together that moves away from conventional book presentations. General public is invited this August 10th starting at 1:00 pm to visit Cositas before its closing, which is on Sunday, August 11th.

The book will be on sale starting August 6, 2024. There will be a discount on the purchase of the book during the closing week of Cositas.

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Cositas by Mario García Torres is an exhibition that links together different moments in history, as well as different images, characters, musical references and ways of perceiving and reading the signals of the world around us. In its rooms, the music that resonates in the installations are key, traveling throughout the space to intersect between the corridors.

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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.

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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.

For press release, click here.

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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.

 

IG @gabriela_galvan_artist

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

MORPHO

ANIBAL CATALAN

Morpho is a sculptural installation, especially conceived for the architectural space of Antara Polanco and developed in collaboration with Arte Abierto.

In Morpho, the Mexican artist Anibal Catalan takes as a reference the natural forms of the tiger dragonfly and the colors of the painting Yellow Landscape (1908) by the Russian artist Kasimir Malevich, to create a structure that allows the viewer to relate sensitively and spatially with the place that inhabits and travels. The side walls use the same shapes and colors in composition, creating a dialogue between the two-dimensionality of the murals and the three-dimensionality of the installation.

Morpho opens to the public in the main access tunnel of Antara and will be temporarily from Thursday March 23 to May 31, with free access.
To download Arte Abierto’s press release of Morpho click here.

To enter the Antara’s Morpho Press kit click here.

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Anibal Catalan (Iguala, Guerrero, 1973)
Estudied Plastic Arts at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving “La Esmeralda”. He was founder and member of the collective project GL Mutante (2003) and was part of the advisory committee of the Alterna y Corriente (2009) space in Mexico City. His work is based on a reflection on space and architecture, through painting, sculpture, video and installation, as well as site-specific projects and public spaces. Throughout his career, he has been part of individual exhibitions places like the MuseumsQuartier (Viena), Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro, Polyforum Siqueiros, CAN Foundation (Seúl); de manera colectiva, su obra se ha presentado en el Museum Gyeonggi (Corea del Sur), Museo de Arte Moderno (México), MARCO, San Diego Art Institute as well as in biennials such as the Tamayo Biennial, the Photography Biennial at Centro de la Imagen, Istanbul Design Biennale, among others.

 

IG @anibalcatalanstudio

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ART AND ARCHITECTURE DERIVES

CULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES: THE INVENTION OF MUSEUM CIRCUITS IN MEXICO CITY OF THE 20TH CENTURY.

A conversation with Ana Garduño.

• Live talk with Ana Garduño

• Saturday, March 25, 2023 at 1:00 pm.

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

• Free admission.

Our program Drifts of Art & Architecture at Arte Abierto is restarting. For our 10th talk our guest is the historian and researcher Ana Garduño, who will talk about the various museum projects and “Cities of the Arts” that emerged throughout the 20th Century in Mexico: from utopian proposals to completely feasible, going through the Olinka by Dr. Atl or the City of Museums and Arts by Diego Rivera, to projects such as the National Museum of Anthropology.

Click here to download the press release.

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

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.

ART AND ARCHITECTURE DERIVES

QUANTUM PRELUDE. SOUND ACTIVATION BY TANIA CANDIANI.

A conversation with Tania Candiani.

• Live talk with Tania Candiani

• Saturday, October 29, 2022 at 1:00 pm.

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

• Free admission.

For the 9th Derive of Art and Architecture in Arte Abierto, the artist Tania Candiani will jun us to talk about her work Quantum Prelude, a two-channel audiovisual installation with octophonic sound.

Click here to learn more about Tania Candiani’s talk.

Click here to download the press release.
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Espacio Arte Abierto is located in the center of the garden, entering through the 2nd floor of ARTZ Pedregal (Periférico Sur 3720, Jardines del Pedregal, Álvaro Obregón) in Mexico City.

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.

CINEMA-FISSURES

THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE TRANSVERSAL VISIT WITH MARA FORTES

The purpose of this visit is to investigate the extra-visual dimension of cinema, based on the idea of the “fissure of the image”, inspired by the concept of kintsugi that is addressed in Things We Do for Love.

DESCRIPTION

  • Thursday October 27, 2022.
  • Time: 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
  • Aimed at all public
  • Limited admission
  • Free admission

 

If you wish to know more about Mara Forte’s visit to Things We Do for Love or Mara Fortes click here.
Download the press release here.

MEMORY BEAT

CERAMIC WRITING WORKSHOP

WITH SANDRA SÁNCHEZ

Because our guests asked for it, Arte Abierto’s Public Program launches a second session of the ceramic writing workshop with Sandra Sánchez, as part of the activities linked to the exhibition Things We Do for Love.

DESCRIPTION

  • Saturday October 15, 2022.
  • Time: 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
  • Aimed at all public: children, youth and adults.
  • Limited admission | Prior registration at actividades@arteabierto.org
  • This workshop is free.

If you need further information about this workshop or Sandra Sánchez click here.

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.

The ideal of the multifamily apartment complex.

A conversation with Juan José Kochen.

• Live talk with Juan José Kochen.

• Saturday, September 24, 2022 at 1:00 pm.

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

• Free admission.

We all know some Housing Unit in Mexico City, we have visited them or even lived in them. They are considered a symbol of modernity in our country, but what stories do they hide? And how have they defined the ways of life and the image of the City?

Click here to learn more about the talk with Juan José Kochen.

Click here to download the press release.

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Juan José Kochen
Architect and publisher. He studied Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Journalism at the Carlos Septién García School of Journalism and a master’s degree in Analysis, Theory and History of Architecture at UNAM. He wrote for the newspaper Reforma, was editor of Arquine, consultant to the General Subdirectorate of Sustainability and Technology of Infonavit, fellow of the National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt), of the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and of the Youth Program Creators of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) on two occasions. He is the author of La utopía como modelo, a professor at the Universidad Iberoamericana and director of the ICA Foundation.

TW @kochenjj

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