Public Program

CONVERSATION

CONVERSATION: IRMGARD EMMELHAINZ AND SEBASTIEN NOEL FROM TROIKA COLLECTIVE

DESCRIPTION

Arte Abierto invites our visitors to the conversation between Irmgard Emmelhainz and Sebastien Noel from Troika.

  • Wednesday, February 23, 2022
  • MX 17:00 hr. / UK 23:00 hr.
  • This event is for everyone through Zoom.
  • https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82238362316 (this link will only be active on the specified date).
  • Limited to 500 atendees.
  • The conversation will be held in English.
  • This event is free admission, no pre-registration is required.

CONVERSATION: IRMGARD EMMELHAINZ AND SEBASTIEN NOEL FROM TROIKA

Arte Abierto begins its 2022 Educational Mediation and Communication Program with a Zoom event: A conversation between the researcher and writer Irmgard Emmelhainz and Sebastien Noel from Troika, taking the exhibition No Sound of Water as a starting point, they will address the current issues in this project, like the Anthropocene, and they will make different readings and questions (Materialist Realism / Philosophy of Matter / Art as Image).

The conversation will take place in English through Zoom.

Irmgard Emmelhainz will broadcast 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) and 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 photograph was taken by @LakeVerea for Constance Hockaday‘s Artists in Presidents project, 2021.

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.

FURIA Y POESÍA

10 AÑOS — ATELIER ROMO

13.MARZO — 13.JUNIO — 2021

FURIA Y POESÍA

10 AÑOS — ATELIER ROMO

TO GUARANTEE YOUR ACCESS, GET YOUR TICKET ONLINE: registroarteabierto.org
The operation model at < Arte Abierto > is based on collaboration with guest artists and experts, who are aligned, with our institutional values and objectives of artistic production with specific contemporary art projects, in their strategies and concepts.

Since 2019 we have been working with Sebastián Romo, founder and creator of Atelier Romo, the result of this significant collaboration is called Atelier Abierto, which due to its pedagogical and participatory lines of work, is one of the most important conceptual components of our Foundation.

Through this program we will develop unique educational strategies and activities to promote direct contact with our audiences.

To establish this physical space, dedicated to our audiences, < Arte Abierto > is proud to present the exhibition Furia y Poesía. 10 years of Atelier Romo. The exhibition recognizes and celebrates this comprehensive and multidisciplinary educational methodology, which rules by the concept of deep education, understood as all knowledge that accompanies us and improves our daily lives.

Working in a space located in ARTZ Pedregal architectural complex, gives us the opportunity to break with the usual circuits of contemporary art and build new audiences and participants from art.

< Arte Abierto > presents the exhibition Fury and Poetry. Atelier Romo 10 Years, opens from March 13th to June 13th, 2021 from 12:00 to 5:00 PM at Atelier Abierto’s space, located on the Ground Floor of ARTZ Pedregal: Periférico Sur 3720, Jardines del Pedregal, Álvaro Obregón in Mexico City.

ATELIER ROMO

For ten years Atelier Romo has developed an educational, comprehensive and multidisciplinary methodology based on the arts. Currently, the guiding axis is focused on deep education understood as all knowledge that accompanies us and improves our daily lives.

The methodology consists of integrating the body, thought, culture and art from constant and disciplined practice, into a relaxed work environment that covers all the requirements to apprehend and create without limitations.

Its lines of work are visual thinking and drawing; the basic principles for soft construction, including sewing, electricity and model making; and the development of a final project that has as outputs an exhibition and an editorial publication.

Atelier Romo has had various collaborations with institutions such as the Tamayo Museum, the Alumnos 47 Foundation, the Jumex Collection, various universities and art centers in the interior of the country, and abroad with the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Also, he was invited to develop a special project for the XII FEMSA Biennial.

In addition to the five printed monographs that it has compiled throughout its history, it has presented multiple exhibition and film projects in spaces such as Casa Vecina, the Tamayo Museum, the Sala de arte Público Siqueiros, La Tallera, the Visual Arts Center of Mérida and the Cervantes Institute in New York, among others.

Atelier Romo has a special interest on the pre-university community, with the intention of preparing them to know how to live better and to be able to respond efficiently to the historical moment they inhabit.

SEBASTIÁN ROMO

Sebastián Romo (Mexico City, 1973)
 He studied photography, documentary film and Visual Arts at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

He has participated in several solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally.

Sebastián’s work is part of various private collections in Germany, Brazil and the United States. In Mexico, the following stand out: The Jumex Collection, the Museum of Modern Art, the Carrillo Gil Museum, to name a few.

Sebastián Romo, is the founder of the Atelier Romo, a multidisciplinary educational platform for high-performance students, which implements contemporary art strategies to address current problems. The visual thinking academy and the implementation of deep education are some of the projects that are currently being carried out.

Polyhedra for children

Polyhedra workshops for children

Arte Abierto starts its educational mediation and communication program.

Due to its pedagogical and participatory lines of work, the Public Program is one of the most important conceptual components of our foundation.

The main objective of this program is to provide education through the arts under a practical, multidisciplinary, inclusive and excellent model, to as many audiences as possible.

The Mexican artist and founder of Atelier Romo, Sebastián Romo, designed a workshop for children as part of the exhibition Furia y Poesía. 10 años de Atelier Romo.

DESCRIPTION

The purpose of this workshop is to bring children closer to art through two workshops based on geometry.

  • Saturdays and Sundays at 12:00 PM, 1:00 PM and 4:00 PM, starting on May 15 tthrough June 27, 2021.
  • Aimed for children accompanied by mom or dad.
  • Space is limited to 10 children.
  • Atelier Abierto is located on the ground floor of Artz Pedregal.
  • Free entrance.

 

For this workshop there are two activities:

  1. A simple to cut and paste pre-printed polyhedron stencils, which can be colored or decorated.
  2. The construction of polyhedrons with hemp thread and paper straws.

 

Blanket workstations will be made.

All material is included.