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BREAK THE BEAT

THIS FRIDAY BREAK THE BEAT COLLECTIVE MIXES

This Friday, August 12, you are welcome to join PASTNOIR – @pastnoir_beats y sus alumnos de la quinta sesión de BREAK THE BEAT – Mezclas Colectivas. Este grupo lo integran: Nancy Díaz, aka NANNPOWER (@nannpower), Diego García, aka OXES (@el_oxes) and Yael Flores, aka YAEL_FT (@yael_ft).

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The Collective Mixes begin at 4:00 pm at Arte Abierto.

Join us this Friday August 12, 2022 at our live sessions.

AUGUST 2022
PASTNOIR – @pastnoir_beats

GROUP 5
Mentorship (zoom) 08.08.2022 _ 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Live (at Artz) 08.12.2022 _ 4:00pm – 7:00pm

GROUP 6
Mentorship (zoom) 08.22.2022 _ 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Live (at Artz) 08.26.2022 _ 4:00pm – 7:00pm

As part of our Public Program we designed BREAK THE BEAT – Collective Mixes. It is an experience created for young adults and teens 15 and over, where they will learn music mixing basic principles with on line tutorials and mentorship with a professional DJ. Young adults will be able to explore music through DJing culture. After the mentorship they will have the chance to mix and experience with their favorite music in a live performance for their friends and music community from a profesional DJ booth at Arte Abierto Garden.

This link will take you to the Break the Beat site to learn about rules and registration.

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Arte Abierto’s garden is located on the 2nd floor of 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 WITH ALDO SOLANO

PLAYGROUNDS ARCHITECTURE IN 20TH CENTURY MEXICO CITY.

• Live conversation with Aldo Solano.

• Saturday, July 30, 2022. at 1:00 pm.

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

• Free admission.

One of the fields in which the architecture of the Modern Movement in Mexico was most experimented with was that of playgrounds, a typology that attracted architects and artists for its playful, uncertain and novel quality.

Click here to see the book Playgrounds of Modern Mexico by Aldo Solano Rojas.

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ALDO SOLANO ROJAS (Mexico City, 1986)
He is a teacher in Art History from the University of Granada, Spain; he has specialized in Mexican historical industrial design and its application to public space, as well as in children’s street furniture. He is the author of Playgrounds of Modern Mexico, a publication supported by Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo and edited by Promotora Cultural Cubo Blanco. He is a doctoral candidate in Art History with a research on public space and his interventions in the years of activity of the Modern Movement by the Institute of Aesthetic Research at UNAM.

BREAK THE BEAT

ARTE ABIERTO’S PUBLIC PROGRAM CREATED FOR YOUNG PEOPLE CONTINUES

Open call for July and August, 2022 mentorship and live sessions.

JULY 2022
ESA MI PAU – @esamipau

GROUP 3
Mentorship (zoom) 07.18.2022 _ 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Live (at Artz) 07.22.2022 _ 4:00pm – 7:00pm

GROUP 4
Mentorship (zoom) 07.25.2022 _ 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Live (at Artz) 07.29.2022 _ 4:00pm – 7:00pm

AUGUST 2022
PASTNOIR – @pastnoir_beats

GROUP 5
Mentorship (zoom) 08.08.2022 _ 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Live (at Artz) 08.12.2022 _ 4:00pm – 7:00pm

GROUP 6
Mentorship (zoom) 08.22.2022 _ 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Live (at Artz) 08.26.2022 _ 4:00pm – 7:00pm

BREAK THE BEAT – Collective Mixes is an experience designed for teen over 15 years old where they will learn music mixing basic principles with on line tutorials and mentorship with a professional DJ. Young adults will be able to explore music through DJing culture. After the mentorship they will have the chance to mix and experience with their favorite music in a live performance for their friends and music community from a profesional DJ booth at Arte Abierto Garden.

This link will take you to the Break the Beat site to learn about rules and registration.

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Arte Abierto’s garden is located on the 2nd floor of 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 WITH

LUIS JAVIER DE LA TORRE

THE ROUTE OF FRIENDSHIP MEXICO68… BEYOND 1968.

• Live conversation with Luis Javier de la Torre.

• Saturday, June 25, 2022. at 1:00 pm.

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

• Free admission.

This conversation with Luis Javier de la Torre will be a journey to rediscover the current Friendship Route MEXICO68, conformed by twenty-two monumental sculptures located south of Mexico City and created by artists from five continents especially for the 1968 Olympic Games.

To read more of this conversation visit the page within the public program.

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Luis Javier de la Torre (Mexico City, 1964)
He is currently president of the Patronato Ruta de la Amistad A.C. He has dedicated himself to the field of management and communication, carrying out public relations projects in the advertising field and fund management in the cultural field. He has a graphic design studio that offers communication alternatives to projects with an artistic and ecological focus. In 1992 he began his research around the ROUTE OF FRIENDSHIP project, and in 1994 he created, together with the architect Javier Ramírez Campuzano, the Patronato Ruta de la Amistad A.C., an institution dedicated to rescuing, preserving and disseminating the cultural legacy derived from the Olympic Games in Mexico. In 1996, in collaboration with Gonzalo Fonseca, he opens the Torre de los Vientos to house independent artistic projects. At the same time, he creates and directs the De-construction project and carries out urban ecological recovery initiatives, such as the restoration of the pedregales.

If you wish to know more about Patronato Ruta de la Amistad A.C. visit mexico68.org

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

THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE

ERICK MEYENBERG

Music and sound design by RODERIC

ARTE ABIERTO presents Things We Do for Love by Erick Meyenberg, a show specially commissioned for Espacio Arte Abierto.

• The exhibition is made up of a multi-channel audiovisual project with five screens and ten-channel surround sound, and a sculpture that represents his first ceramic work for the artist.

• The project results in an ode to life that emerged from an introspective journey in which the artist manages to document the beauty of everyday life.

Things We Do for Love will be open to the public beginning Friday, June 24, 2022.

Arte Abierto presents its fourth exhibition with a multichannel video installation with five screens and a large-format ceramic sculpture, specially commissioned from the artist Erick Meyenberg (Mexico City, 1980) for Espacio Arte Abierto.

Things We Do for Love results in an ode to life in which different fragments of what makes up and gives context to existence are interconnected: the universe, space, time, force and affections seen from nature, cities, people… The idea for the video installation arose after Meyenberg returned from an artist residency in Japan* during which he began to understand his gaze through the lens of his camera as the only tool available to heal a personal story: “When everything has been broken, how to move in a world that is so foreign? How to rebuild it? How to glue the pieces that have remained? Thus, what began as a journey to a geography and culture totally alien to his own, became an introspection to find the beauty of life.

In his month-long stay in Tokyo, Kyoto, Kanazawa, Hiroshima, and Naoshima, Meyenberg captured moments of life seemingly unrelated to each other. In the process, while looking through what the camera framed him, he says that a phrase resonated in his mind “Things we do for love”. Back in Mexico, the visual fragments from Japan were joined by others taken in Los Cabos, Valle de Bravo, Acapulco and Ixtapa, as well as the sequence of some cicadas in their process of metamorphosis, taken from the Internet, which completed the visual archive that now compose the sample video.

For Meyenberg, the great accumulation of images that documented hundreds of moments, situations or places, represented a broken and disjointed world. Thus, uniting them through editing meant transforming the vision of the torn into a promise of life. Based on Kintsugi, a Japanese philosophy that repairs broken objects and sticks their fragments with gold dust, the artist found the perfect metaphor to convene his image archive and form the video installation created by the editor and filmmaker Martha Uc.

The music for the video had to contain the affective force of what was experienced and provide an emotional and abstract support where the collection of filmed moments could be interwoven. Thus, by intuition, the artist decided not to accompany the images with his real sound, but to experiment with the emotional and suggestive abstraction that electronic music allows, in collaboration with the musician Roderic.

For its part, the large-format ceramic sculpture presents a dismembered flower. Due to the dimensions of the work as a whole and the delicacy with which ceramics* must be modelled, glazed and baked so as not to compromise the material, it was produced in parts until it formed a sculptural object whose forms refer to a series of elements to which that Meyenberg came from an imaginative insight while shooting in both Japan and Mexico. After filming a chrysanthemum on the ground of a cemetery in Tokyo, after a typhoon, the idea arose of a sculpture that would recover the force and movement of the water and the sea that appear in much of the video, and whose colors would reflect the love and eroticism: “the sculpture had to emerge from the ground, just as Aphrodite emerged from the waters”, the artist mentions. Both the petals and the space between them, which becomes the Kintsugi or gold dust that holds them together, are part of the sculptural intervention.

Beyond a specific and determined interpretation, Things We Do for Love proposes an introspective and emotional reflection on the transition that occurs between mourning and hope as experiences that are the product of love.

The video of the exhibition was made in collaboration with the video editor Martha Uc, Roderic in musical composition and sound design, Santiago Rodríguez Rebolledo in sound supervision, cellist Natalia Pérez-Turner and guest performers: Louise Phelan and Francisco López -War.

*Casa NaNo artist residency in Tokyo, Japan, sponsored by Fundación Casa Wabi.
* The sculpture was made in the Cerámica Suro workshop in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Things We Do for Love by Erick Meyenberg is open from June 24, 2021 to December 18, 2022 at Espacio Arte Abierto located on the 2nd floor  of  ARTZ Pedregal: Periférico Sur 3720, Jardines del Pedregal, Álvaro Obregón, Mexico City.

BREAK THE BEAT

< ARTE ABIERTO > CREATES A NEW EXPERIENCE FOR TEENS

• June’s 2022 open call.

• Group 1 >> Mentorship: June 13 , 2022

• Group 2 >> Mentorship: June 27, 2022

• June’s Mentor DJ: Bonnz!

BREAK THE BEAT – Collective Mixes is an experience designed for teen over 15 years old where they will learn music mixing basic principles with on line tutorials and mentorship with a professional DJ. Young adults will be able to explore music through DJing culture. After the mentorship they will have the chance to mix and experience with their favorite music in a live performance for their friends and music community from a profesional DJ booth at Arte Abierto Garden.

This link will take you to the Break the Beat site to learn about rules and registration.

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Groups 3 and 4 open on July with a mentorship by Esa Mi Pau
Groups 5 and 6 open on July with a mentorship by Pastnoir

Arte Abierto’s garden is located on the 2nd floor of 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 WITH

MARISOL ARGÜELLES

THE HOUSE-STUDIO OF DIEGO RIVERA AND FRIDA KAHLO. FROM THE DOMESTIC SPACE TO THE PUBLIC DIMENSION

• Live conversation with Marisol Argüelles.

• Saturday, May 28, 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 Marisol Argüelles about the Museum House-Studio Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.

The Museum House-Studio of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, is composed by four architectural bodies built between 1929 and 1934, was created as the home of two of the most iconic figures of the 20th-century cultural environment: Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.

To read more of this conversation visit the page within the public program.

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Marisol Argüelles

She is an art historian from the Universidad Iberoamericana. From 2002 to 2007 she was curator of the Carrillo Gil Art Museum. From 2007 to 2009 she headed the Research and Exhibitions area of ​​the National Coordination of Plastic Arts of the National Institute of Fine Arts. She collaborated for 10 years in the Museum of Modern Art where she was in charge of the collection, later she was part of the curatorship area and later she was deputy director of that space. She has carried out independent curatorial projects in Mexico, the United States, and the Netherlands, in addition to participating as a jury for awards and biennials of modern and contemporary art. She has written in various publications on topics of modern Mexican art. In 2017, she was in charge of the Directorate of International Cultural Promotion and Dissemination of the General Directorate of International Affairs of the Ministry of Culture. She is currently the director of the Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo and the Museo Mural Diego Rivera.

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

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.

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.

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.